Axtell, Henry C

a Presbyterian minister, was born at Mendham, N. J., in 1802. He graduated at Hamilton College in 1823; was tutor there in 1825-26; studied theology in Princeton Theological Seminary, N. J., and in 1830 he was ordained as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Lawrenceville, N. J. In 1835 he accepted a call to the Second Presbyterian Church in Orange, N. J., but in 1838 resigned his charge on account of ill-health, and removed to St. Augustine, Fla. He became a member of the Presbytery of Georgia in 1840. In 1843 he was appointed chaplain at Fort Brooke, Tampa Bay, which post he held until 1849, when he was transferred to New Orleans Barracks. He remained at this post until 1853, when he became disabled from duty, and removed to Philadelphia, where he died, July 15, 1854. He contributed to the Princeton Review in 1831 an article on "Biblical Eloquence and Poetry," and in 1834 "A Memorial of James Brainerd Taylor." See Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review; Index to Princeton Review; Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 4:454.