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Samuel Gover Winchester

WINCHESTER, Samuel Gover, clergyman, born in Rock Run, Harford County, Maryland, 17 February, 1805; died in New York city, 31 August, 1841. He attended school at Bel Air and Baltimore, Maryland, and began the study of law in the University of Maryland in 1825, but abandoned it for theology, studied in Princeton seminary, and in 1830-'7 was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Philadelphia. From the latter year till his death he had charge of a congregation in Natchez, Miss. Besides frequently contributing to current religious literature, he published "Companion for the Sick" (1888) ; "Christian Counsel to the Sick" (1886); "Family Religion" (1841); and "The Theatre" (1841).

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