About William Ives Budington
Lived 1815 – 1879 (aged 64). William Ives Budington was a christian minister.
William Ives Budington (April 21, 1815 – November 29, 1879) was an American minister.
Budington was born in New Haven, Conn., April 21, 1815, the son of William and Lydia (Ives) Budington. He graduated from Yale College in 1834. After graduating he taught in the academy in New Canaan, Conn., for nearly a year, and then began a three years' course in the Yale Divinity School. The year 1838-9 he spent as a resident licentiate in the Andover Theological Seminary.
He was ordained pastor of the First Church (Congregational) in Charlestown, Mass, April 22, 1840, and served there for 14 years, until he stepped down in 1854. He also published several occasional sermons and review-articles.
The degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Amherst College in 1856.
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American minister (1815-1879)
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William Ives Budington died on 29 November 1879.
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William Ives Budington was a christian minister.
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