Breed, Charles Cleveland

Breed, Charles Cleveland a Congregational minister, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, August 10, 1815. After a time spent in Yale College, he entered Oberlin College, and subsequently graduated from the Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1855. The next year he was acting-pastor in Penfield, Ohio; and on April 30, 1857, was ordained an evangelist at Bristol, Illinois, becoming acting pastor at Jericho and Big Rock, Illinois. From 1858 to 1861 he was acting- pastor in Hadley; 1862 in Marseilles; from 1862 to 1864 in New Rutland; from 1864 to 1875 in East Paw Paw; from 1876 to 1878 in Princeton and Baldwin, Minnesota; and in 1879 in Thawville, Illinois. After this he resided without charge in East Paw Paw, until his death, December 17, 1881. See Cong. Year-book. 1882, page 24.