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WITHINGTON, Leonard, clergyman, born in Dorchester (now a part of Boston), Massachusetts, 9 August, 1789; died in Newbury, Massachusetts, 22 April, 1885. He was graduated at Yale in 1814, studied theology at Andover seminary, was ordained as a Congregational minister on 31 October, 1816, and acted as pas-tot of the 1st church at Newbury till 1858, when he retired from the active duties of the ministry, though he continued to be connected with the church as senior pastor till his death. He received the degree of D.D. from Bowdoin in 1850. He published, besides numerous sermons, reviews, and lectures, "The Puritan, a Series of Essays," under the pen-name of "Jonathan Oldbug " (2 vols., Boston, 1836), afterward suppressing the edition; "Penitential Tears, or a Cry from the Dust by the Thirty-One" (1845), referring to the protest of Boston school-masters against the abolition of corporal punishment; and " Solomon's Song Translated and Explained," which was the fruit of nearly two-score years of study (1861).
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