Rev. Nahum Gould was born in Warwick, Dec. 25, 1798; graduated at Amherst in 1825; studied theology with Rev. Dr. Woodbridge, of Hadley, and Rev. Daniel A. Clark, then of Bennington, Vt.; was licensed in February, 1827; preached a short time at McDonough and Smithville, N.Y.; was ordained as an Evangelist by the Chenango Presbytery, N.Y., June 21, 1827; then preached in Cattaraugus County, N.Y., in Union, Broome County, N.Y., and various places in that State; was installed pastor at Union, N.Y., in 1832; afterwards preached in Nichols, Penn.; and has been preaching in Illinois about twenty years. His present field of labor is Northville, La Salle County, Ill. Interesting revivals have attended his labors. In 1828, he married Miss Rebecca B., a daughter of Deacon Francis Leonard, of Warwick.
