1811.
WILLIAM RIPLEY GOULD was born at Sharon, Conn., May 27, 1789, and died at Pottstown, Pa., July 2,1867, aged 78 years.
He graduated at Andover Theological Seminary, in Sept., 1814, and on the 12th of the following month was ordained at Enfield, Conn., as an Evangelist, to labor in Ohio under the direction of the Conn. Missionary Society., Before a year passed, he was invited to settle permanently at Gallipolis, Ohio. The neighborhood had been colonized by French Catholics, who were now without a priest; and the result was, that Mr. Gould became the founder of Protestant worship over a wide region. After a ministry of 12 years, he returned to Connecticut, and became pastor of the Congregational Church in Torrington, in his native County, where he remained from Feb., 1827, to Feb., 1832. From Sept, 1832, to 1838, he was a pastor in Barkhamsted, also in Litchfield County. In 1839 he was recalled and re-installed over the Church which he had organized at Gallipolis.
In 1846 Mr. Gould left Ohio, and since then held no pastoral charge, but resided mainly with his son-in-law, Rev. Matthew Meigs, at whose residence he died,
