WISNER, Benjamin Blydenburg, clergyman, born in Goshen, Orange County, New York, 19 September, 1794; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 9 February, 1835. His father was one of the first settlers in Goshen. Benjamin was graduated at Union in 1813 and at Princeton theological seminary in 1820, and in the interval was principal of the academy in Johnstown, New York, also studying law. In 1821-'32 he was pastor of the Old South church, Boston, Massachusetts He then resigned on account of failing health, and became secretary of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. In that capacity he did good service in visiting various parts of the country and in forming missionary associations. Union gave him the degree of D. D. in 1828. His publications include single sermons and memoirs ; "History of the Old South Church" (Boston, 1830)" and "Moral Condition and Prospects of the heathen " (1833). See "Memorial Volume of the First Fifty Years of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions," by Rufus Anderson, D. D. (1862).