Bolles, Lucius, Dd

Bolles, Lucius, D.D., a Baptist minister, was born at Ashford, Conn., Sept. 25, 1779, and was licensed to preach in 1803. He graduated from Brown University in 1801, having been converted at college. He was first pastor at Salem, Mass., which Church he served twenty-two years. He was elected corresponding secretary of foreign missions in 1826. In 1841, Dr. BolIes made a missionary tour beyond the Alleghany Mountains. He died, full of faith and hope, Jan. 5, 1844. He published a number of sermons. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 6, 474.