Catlin, Oren

Catlin, Oren a Presbyterian minister, was born in New York. He graduated at Hamilton College in 1818, and at Andover in 1822. He was ordained Sept. 26, following. In 1823 he labored in Illinois. He assisted in organizing the First Presbyterian Church of Greene County, at Carrollton, in the same year. He was pastor at Warren, Mass., in 1829 and 1831; stated supply at Cincinnatus, N.Y., in 1832 and 1833; at Castleton, from 1834 to 1837; at Fairport, from 1838 to 1841; at Newstead, in 1842 and 1843; and at Collins, from 1844 to 1846. He died at Evans, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1850, aged fifty-five years. See Norton, Hist. of the Presb. Church in Illinois; Trien. Cat. of Andover Theol. Sem. 1870, p. 50.