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WATERBURY, Jared Bell, clergyman, born in New York city, 11 August, 1799; died in Brooklyn, New York, 31 December, 1876. He was graduated at Yale in 1822, studied two years in Princeton theological seminary, and was licensed to preach in 1825. In that year he was an agent for the American Bible society, and in 1826-'9 he was pastor of the Congregational church in Hatfield, Massachusetts He was pastor of Presbyterian churches in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from 1829 till 1832, and in Hudson, New York, in 1833, of the Bowdoin street Congregational church in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1846 till 1857, and of the Central church in Brooklyn, New York, in 1859. Subsequently he served as city missionary there until his death. Union gave him the degree of S. T. D. in 1841. He was the author of "Advice to a Young Christian" (New York, 1827) ; " The Brighter Age," a poem (Boston, 1830);" Child of the Covenant" (1853); " Voyage of Life" (1853); " Tile Soldier from Home" (New York, 1862); "The Soldier on Guard" (1863); "Sketches of Eloquent Preachers" (1864); " Southern Planters and Freedmen " (1865): and a life of Reverend John Scudder (1870).
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