Author: Waterbury, Jared Bell
Biography:
WATERBURY, Jared Bell (1799-1876: ancestry.com)
The son of Gideon and Ruth (Tuttle) Waterbury, he was born in New York City, graduated from Yale in 1822, studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, and was licensed to preach in 1825. In 1841 he was awarded an S. T. D. from Union College. He first worked as a Bible agent for the American Bible Society in 1825, then served as a Congregationalist minister at a succession of churches in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York. He married Eliza Sophia Lewis in 1827; they had at least two children. His final posting was at the Central Church in Brooklyn in 1859; thereafter he worked in Brooklyn as a city missionary until his death. Waterbury was an active contributor to church literature, from poems and hymns ("I have fought the good fight" is one of his) through conduct books such as Considerations for Young Men (1851) and ecclesiastical biography. He died of "apoplexy athenia" in Brooklyn and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery. (ancestry.com 24 Dec. 2020; findmypast.com 24 Dec. 2020; Appleton) HJ
Other Names:
- J. B. Waterbury