WING, Conway Phelps, clergyman, born near Marietta, Ohio, 12 February, 1809. He was graduated at Hamilton college in 1828 and at Auburn theological seminary in 1831, and was ordained and installed pastor of the church at Sodus, Wayne County, New York, by the presbytery of Geneva in 1832, remaining there till 1836. He was afterward pastor at Ogden, New York, at Monroe, Michigan, where he is now pastor emeritus, at Huntsville, Alabama, and at Carlisle, Pennsylvania Mr. Wing took an active part in the revivals of 1832-'5, and in the anti-slavery agitation in western New York, and was zealous in his opposition to slavery in Tennessee and Alabama. He received the degree of D. D. from Dickinson college in 1857. He was an adherent to the new-school branch of the Presbyterian church, but an earnest supporter of the reunion in 1869 and 1870, and was a member of the joint committee of reconstruction for the church in the latter year. He has translated from the German "A History of the Christian Church," by Dr. Charles Hase, with Dr. Charles E. Blumenthal (New York, 1856); and published " History of the Presbyteries of Donegal and Carlisle" (Carlisle, 1876); " History of the First Presbyterian Church of Carlisle" (1877); "History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania" (1879) ; and "Historical and Genealogical Register of the Descendants of John Wing, of Sandwich" (New York, 1885: 2d ed.. 1888).