TRAIN, Charles, clergyman, born in Weston, Massachusetts, 7 January, 1783; died in Framingham, Massachusetts, 17 September, 1849. He was graduated at Harvard in 1805, licensed to preach as a Baptist in Newton in May, 1806, and in the autumn of 1807 took charge of Framingham academy, at the same time preaching on alternate Sundays at Framingham and Weston. He was ordained a minister in Framingham on 30 January, 1811, and was appointed pastor of the Baptist churches in Weston and Framingham. In 1826 the connection between the two branches was dissolved, and he became pastor of Framingham alone, in which town a new church was dedicated in 1827. He resigned his charge in 1839. A considerable part of his life was devoted to public affairs. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1822, and continued to represent his district for the following seven years, except during 1827, when his extreme views on temperance offended his constituents. In 1829 he was elected to fill a vacancy in the state senate by the two branches of the legislature, and in 1830 he was chosen senator by the people. He was the first to take steps for the formation of a legislative library, and to propose a revision of the laws affecting common schools, while Amherst college was largely indebted to his exertions for its charter. He acquired considerable celebrity as a preacher and public speaker, and published various addresses, orations, and sermons between 1810 and 1830.--His son, Charles Russell, lawyer, born in Framingham, Massachusetts, 18 October, 1817, was graduated at Brown in 1837, studied law at Harvard, and was called to the bar in 1841. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1847, and was United States district attorney for northern Massachusetts from 1848 till 1851. He was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1853, a member of the governor's council in 1857-'8, and was elected to congress in 1859, serving until 1863. He was a volunteer aide on the staff of General George H. Gordon, and took part in the battle of Antic-tam. He was again in the Massachusetts legislature from 1868 till 1871, and was attorney-general from 1871 till 1878. He published, in conjunction with Franklin F. Heard, "Precedents of Indictments, Special Pleas, etc., adapted to American Practice, with Notes" (Boston, 1855).--His eldest son, Arthur Savage, clergyman, born in Framingham, Massachusetts, 1 September, 1812; died there, 2 January, 1872, was graduated at Brown in 1833, and remained there as tutor for two years, pursuing at the same time theological studies under the direction of Francis Wayland. He was ordained to the ministry in 1836, as pastor of the Baptist church in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and he continued in that relation for twenty-three years, resigning his pastorate to accept the professorship of sacred rhetoric and pastoral duties in Newton theological seminary. In 1866, after a service of seven years in the seminary, he resigned, and passed the remainder of his life with the church in Framingham. He received the degree of D.D. from Brown in 1855.