Webster, John Calvin, Dd

Webster, John Calvin, D.D.

a Congregational minister, was born at Hampton, N.H., January 19, 1810. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1832, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1835; preached at Wells, Maine, two years thereafter; was seamen-chaplain at Cronstadt, Russia, in 1838; pastor at Hopkinton, Mass., until 1864; professor in Wheaton College, Illinois, until 1876; acting-pastor at Lisbon, in the same state, from 1878 to 1882, and died at Wheaton, August 12, 1884. He published several sermons. See Cong. Yearbook, 1885, page 37.