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Edward Elias Atwater
Edward Elias Atwater (May 28, 1816 – December 2, 1887) was an American Congregational minister and a local history writer and editor, based in New Haven, Connecticut.
Atwater, the only surviving child of Elihu Atwater and Julia Thompson Atwater, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1836. After graduation he taught for a year in a family in Oldham County, Kentucky. In 1837 he entered the Yale Divinity School, and completed a three-year course of study.
On November 24, 1841, Atwater was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Ravenna, Ohio, from which office he resigned on July 1, 1849. He then spent a year in foreign travel, and on February 3, 1852, was installed over the Congregational Church in Salmon Falls, in the township of Rollinsford, New Hampshire. He was dismissed from this charge, on November 3, 1857, when he returned to New Haven. A few months later he undertook a missionary enterprise in the eastern part of the city, which resulted after years of patient labor in the organization of the Davenport Church, where he was pastor from 1863 to 1870.
Atwater was active in the Hospital Society of New Haven, and the New Haven Colony Historical Society.
On August 9, 1844, Atwater married Rebecca H. Dana, daughter of Deacon David Dana, of Pomfret, Vermont, who survived him. Their only child died in infancy. He died in December 1887, in Hawthorne, Florida, from a stroke of apoplexy, at the age of 71.
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Edward Elias Atwater
Edward Elias Atwater (May 28, 1816 – December 2, 1887) was an American Congregational minister and a local history writer and editor, based in New Haven, Connecticut.
Atwater, the only surviving child of Elihu Atwater and Julia Thompson Atwater, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1836. After graduation he taught for a year in a family in Oldham County, Kentucky. In 1837 he entered the Yale Divinity School, and completed a three-year course of study.
On November 24, 1841, Atwater was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Ravenna, Ohio, from which office he resigned on July 1, 1849. He then spent a year in foreign travel, and on February 3, 1852, was installed over the Congregational Church in Salmon Falls, in the township of Rollinsford, New Hampshire. He was dismissed from this charge, on November 3, 1857, when he returned to New Haven. A few months later he undertook a missionary enterprise in the eastern part of the city, which resulted after years of patient labor in the organization of the Davenport Church, where he was pastor from 1863 to 1870.
Atwater was active in the Hospital Society of New Haven, and the New Haven Colony Historical Society.
On August 9, 1844, Atwater married Rebecca H. Dana, daughter of Deacon David Dana, of Pomfret, Vermont, who survived him. Their only child died in infancy. He died in December 1887, in Hawthorne, Florida, from a stroke of apoplexy, at the age of 71.
Media related to Edward Elias Atwater at Wikimedia Commons
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1888 Yale Obituary Record.