WILCOX, Carlos, clergyman, born in Newport, New Hampshire, 22 October, 1794; do in Danbury, Connecticut, 29 May, 1827. His father, a farmer, removed in 1798 to Orwell, Vermont, where the son's youth was spent He was a precocious child, and this, with an accident to his knee which unfitted him for agricultural labor, decided his parents to send him to college. He was graduated at Middlebury in 1813, and at Andover theological seminary in 1817, after some interruptions from an affection of the heart, which continued till it ended his life. He preached in several places in 1819-'20, though still in feeble health, and spent the years 1820-'2 in the house of a friend in Salisbury, Connecticut, writing on his long poem "The Age of Benevolence," which he had projected in college. He was pastor of the North church in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1824 till 1826, when he accepted a call to Danbury. His poem, " The Age of Benevolence," was to contain five books, of which he completed the first and parts of three others. The first was published separately (Salisbury, 1822), and fragments of the work appeared after his death in a volume of his " Remains," which contains also "The Religion of Taste," a poem that he read before the Yale Phi Beta Kappa society in 1824, fourteen sermons, and a memoir of the author (Hartford, 1828). His verses abound in accurate rural description.