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TINKER, Reuben, clergyman, born in Chester, Massachusetts, 6 August, 1799; died in Westfield, Chautauqua County, New York, 26 October, 1854. He entered a mercantile house in his native town in 1813, but afterward entered Amherst and was graduated in 1827, having supported himself during his college career by teaching and manual labor. He became a student in Auburn theological seminary the same year, and was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church at Chester in 1830. Resolving to devote himself to foreign missions, he sailed for the Sandwich islands in December, 1830, and reached Honolulu on 28 June, 1831. He was chaplain for seamen at Lahaina until June, 1832, when he went with other missionaries on an exploring expedition to the Marquesas islands, with the view to founding missions. In 1834 he was appointed to edit a semimonthly religious journal in the native language, which he did up to 1838. In 1840 he returned to the United States, where he had charge of a congregation in Madison, Ohio, for four years, and then of one in Westfield, New York, till his death. See "Sermons by Reverend Reuben Tinker, Missionary at the Sandwich Islands; with a Biographical Sketch" (Buffalo, 1856).
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