Zedekiah Smith Barstow

Zedekiah Smith Barstow (October 4, 1790 – March 1, 1873) was an American Congregational minister and educator, based in Keene, New Hampshire. He served as a trustee for Dartmouth College.

Early life and education Barstow, the youngest child of Deacon John and Susannah (Smith) Barstow, was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, October 4, 1790. Having previously prepared himself in the mathematics and the higher English branches, while working on his father's farm, he commenced the study of the classics at the age of 19, with Rev. Erastus Learned, of Canterbury, and after six months of persevering study, was admitted to Yale College in 1811, where he graduated in 1813. He received the degree of Doctor in Divinity from Dartmouth College in 1849.

Career After graduation Barstow pursued his theological studies under the direction of President Dwight, and was licensed to preach in New Haven in 1814. For two years he was tutor and college chaplain in Hamilton College, where he received the degree of A.M. (ad eundem) 1816, and was invited to accept a professorship, but declined, preferring to devote his life to pastoral work. He was settled over the Congregational Church in Keene, New Hampshire, July 1, 1818. Dartmouth has other Barstow papers. In 2023, to mark its 285th anniversary, the United Church of Christ in Keene restored the Barstows' gravesite in Washington Cemetery.