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EDDY, Thomas Nears, clergyman, born in Newtown, Hamilton County, Ohio, 7 September 1823: died in New York City, 7 October 1874. He was educated in Oreensborough, Indiana, classical seminary, and in 1842'53 was a Methodist circuit preacher in that state, he was agent of the American Bible society in the latter year, and presiding elder of the Indianapolis district till 1856, when he was appointed editor of the "Northwestern Christian Advocate" in Chicago. He retained this post till 1868, and, after holding pastorates in Baltimore and Washington, was elected one of the corresponding secretaries of the missionary society by the general conference of 1872, of which he was a member. Dr. Eddy was a copious writer for the press, and, besides occasional sermons, published " Patriotism of Illinois," a history of the state during the civil war (2 vols., Chicago, 1865).
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