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John Pierpont
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I lived from 1785-1866.
I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.
John Pierpont was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on April 6, 1785; he was the great-grandson of James Pierpont who was one of the original founders of Yale College. John Pierpont graduated from Yale College in 1804, after a period of time at the academy at Bethlehem, Connecticut, in 1805 he moved to South Carolina, and for nearly 4 years he was a private tutor in the family of Colonel William Allston.
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After his return in 1809 to Litchfield, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1812, which he practiced for a time in Newburyport, Massachusetts; the profession caused straining to his health and so he ceased the profession of law, and so he engaged in bussiness as a merchant, firstly in Boston then in Baltimore,
Maryland, then at Cambridge divinity school.
In April, 1819, he was ordained a pastor of the
Hollis street Church in Boston, Mass.
Pierpont expressed his opinions with vigor and freedom, especially in regards to the temperance cause, he had given rise to feelings before he departed for Europe; in 1838 a division came between himself and a partial factor of his parish which lasted seven years, after he sustained himself against the charges of his parish he requested a dismissal. He then became a pastor of a Unitarian Church in Troy, New York.
Pierpont was a zealous reformer which he powerfully advocated the temper-ante and anti-slavery movements, he was a candidate of the Liberty Party for Governor, and in 1850 of the Free-soil party for Congress.
When the Civil War began he went into the field, at the age of seventy-six, as a chaplain of a Massachusetts regiment, however, it seemed that his strength became unequal to the strains of his duties, and soon after he resigned his field duties. He was appointed to a clerkship in the Treasury Department at Washington, which he held until his death.
John Pierpont died in Medford, Massachusetts, August 26, 1866.
biblio:
famousamericans.net
clements.umich.edu
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