Person:Edmund Slafter (2)

In the Memorial of John Slafter, which includes genealogical info for eight generations, Edmund Slafter writes his own entry thus:

Edmund-Farwell, (son of Sylvester, John, Samuel, John,) b. may 30, 1816; m. Mary-Anne, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Brown) Hazen of Boston, Aug. 16, 1849. She was b. in Boston, April 27, 1819. He was b. in Norwich, Vt., baptized in Thetford, Vt., by the Rev. Asa Burton, D.D., June 22, 1817. He was fitted for College at Thetford Academy; entered Dartmouth College in 1836; graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1840; A.M. from same college, 1865. Entered the Theological Seminary at Andover, autumn of 1840. He was principal of Topsfield Academy one year, from Dec. 1, 1841. He became a communicant in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was confirmed by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Griswold, D.D., at Andover, June 1, 1842, and became a candidate for the Holy Orders. He returned to the Theological Seminary at Andover, Nov. 27, 1842; took up his connection with the Seminary, April, 1844. He was examined for Deacon's Orders, by the Rev. C.M. Butler, D.D., rector of Grace Church, Boston, and the Rev. P.H. Greenleaf, D.D., Rector St. John's Church, Charlestown, on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of July 1844, and was ordained Deacon in Trinity Church, Boston, July 12, 1844, by the Rt. Rev. Manton Eastburn, D.D. He preached his first sermon in St. John's Church, Charlestown, July 14, 1844; entered upon the Rectorship of St. Peter's Chuch, Cambridgeport, July 21, 1844. He was ordained Priest by Bishop Eastburn in St. Peter's Church, Cambridgeport, Sept. 20, 1846; was instituted Rector of St. John's Church, Jamaica Plain, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Eastburn, Sept. 27, 1846. His health failing, he resigned the Rectorship of St. John's Church, Jamaica Plain, Nov. 15, 1853; became Assistant to the Rector of St. Paul's Church, Boston, Dec., 1853, with nominal duty; resigned, and became financial agent of American Bible Society, for the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the New England and Middle states, March, 1857, and so continues. He is Vice-President of the Prince Society, Boston, and member of its Council; member of the new England Historic-Genealogical Society, and Corresponding Secretary since Jan., 1867; member of the Boston Numismatic Society; corresponding member of the Vermont Historical Society; corresponding member of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin; was five years a member of the School Committee in Roxbury, and chairman of the Board in West Roxbury in 1853; he published a sermon "on the occasion of the death of General Zachary Taylor, President of the United States," delivered in St. John's Church, Jamaica Plain, July 28, 1850; also, a sermon on "The planting and growth of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States," delivered at Norwich University, July 19, 1863. He has been a contributor to the periodical press for many years. A few articles have been reprinted in pamphlet form, as, "Notes on the Character of Norwich, Vt.," and "The Assassination Plot in New York in 1776, a letter of William Eustis, a surgeon in the American Army and late Governor of Massachusetts, with Notes." He is the author of this work.

His middle name "Farwell" is the family name of his father's maternal grandmother, Mary Farwell. The emigrant ancestor Henry Farwell, was one of the early settlers in Chelmsford, Mass.

1. ↑ Slafter, Rev. Edmund Farwell. Memorial of John Slafter: with a genealogical account of his descendants, including eight generations. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States|Boston: Press of Henry W. Dutton & Son, 1869)
   p. 66.

   at number 576. This Edmund Slafter is the author of this book.