Bronson, Samuel Jennings

Bronson, Samuel Jennings a Baptist minister, was born in Danbury, Connecticut, in 1819. He united with the Church in 1837, took the full course of study in both departments in Madison University, graduating in 1846, and was ordained pastor of the Church in Millbury, Massachusetts, December 16 of the same year. Here he remained until 1854, when he went to Hiannis, and was pastor there till 1867, when he went to Winchester, from which place he returned to Millbury in 1870, and continued there till obliged to resign on account of illhealth. In 1874 he resumed ministerial and pastoral work in West Woodstock, Connecticut, where he died, January 10, 1879. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. Page 142. (J.C.S.)