Claggett, Erastus Baldwin

Claggett, Erastus Baldwin a Congregational minister, was born in Newport, N.H., May 9, 1815. He received his preparatory education at Kimball Union Academy, was a student in Dartmouth College, and graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1844. He was ordained at Lyndeborough, N.H., September 30, 1846, where he remained until September 20, 1870, then became acting pastor at New Fairfield, Conn., in October of that year, and remained as such until his death. May 16, 1877. He published, in the Congregational Quarterly for 1864, History of the Union Association. (W.P.S.)