Coburn, David Nichols

Coburn, David Nichols a Congregational minister, was born at Thompson, Connecticut, September 11, 1808. He received his preparatory education at Monson Academy, Massachusetts, and graduated at Amherst College in 1838, and from the theological institute at Hartford in 1841. He was ordained at Ware, Massachusetts, September 21, 1842, where he remained until April 17, 1845. From thence he removed to Monson, where he remained without charge until his death, December 7, 1877. Mr. Coburln published A Historical Discourse, delivered at Ware, May 9, 1851, on the centenary of the first Church there. See Hist. Cat. of the Theol. Inst. of Conn. 1881, page 30. (W.P.S.)