GLADDEN, Washington, clergyman, born in Pittsgrove, Pennsylvania, 11 February, 1836. He was graduated at Williams in 1859. After a course of theology he became pastor of the State Street Congregational Church in Brooklyn in 1860, then in Morrisania and in North Adams, Massachusetts, in 1867-'71, when he removed to New York and was on the editorial staff of the New York "independent" until 1875. From 1875 till 1883 he was pastor of the North Congregational Church in Springfield, Massachusetts, and for some time edited " Sunday Afternoon." He then went to Columbus, Ohio, to be pastor of the first Church in that City. He has been a frequent contributor to papers and periodicals, a successful public lecturer, and has published "Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living" (Boston, 1868); "From the Hub to the Hudson" (1869); " Workingmen and their Employers" (1876); "Being a Christian " (1876) ; " The Christian Boy" (New York, 1877)" "The Lord's Prayer" (Boston, 1880); "The Christian League of Connecticut" (New York, 1883); "Things New and Old" (Columbus, 1884) ; " The Young Men and the Churches" (Boston, 1885)" and "Applied Christianity" (Boston, 1887).