Clough, Philemon

Clough, Philemon, a Free-will Baptist minister, was born at Springfield, Vt., May 18, 1818. He united with the Church at the age of sixteen, and was ordained at Grantham, Nov. 7, 1861. A part of his ministerial life was devoted to itinerant labors in Vermont. For three years and a half he was pastor of a Church in Weare, N. H. For the last six years of his life he did not preach much, on account of ill-health. He died at Grantham, June 19, 1878. His sermons were original rather than scholastic. See Morning Star, Sept. 4.1878. (a. c. s.)