Withington, Leonard, Dd

Withington, Leonard, D.D.

a Congregational minister, was born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1789. He graduated from Yale College in 1814, studied for some time in Andover Theological Seminary, became pastor of the First Church at Newburyport, Mass., in 1816, and died there, April 22, 1885, a colleague having been appointed in 1858. He wrote, The Puritans (1836): — Solomon's Song Explained (1861), etc.