Boies, Artemas

Boies, Artemas, a Congregational minister, was born at Blandford, Mass., Sept. 8, 1792, and graduated at Williams College 1816. In 1819 he was ordained pastor in Wilmington, N. C. In 1821 he accepted a call from Charleston; on account of ill health, he resigned 1823. In 1824 he was ordained pastor of the church in South Hadley, Mass. In 1884 he went to Boston as pastor of Pine Street Church, which position he resigned in 1840, and in 1841 removed to New London, where he remained until his death, Sept. 25, 1844. He published a Thanksgiving Sermon, Characteristics of the Times (1828), and an Address before the Society 0f Inquiry in Amherst College (1834).-Sprague, Annals, ii, 664.