Connelly, Henry

Connelly, Henry a Presbyterian minister, was born at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1798. He graduated at Washington College in 1824; was a student in the Associate Reformed Seminary, Allegheny, and part of a year (1830) in Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained an evangelist by the Associate Reformed Presbytery of New York, September 21, 1832; became pastor at Bloomingburgh, N.Y., in 1833; principal of the academy, Newburgh, in 1848; agent of the New York Cololization Society; principal of an academy at Goshen in 1867, and died at Newburgh, August 5, 1868. See Gen. Cat. of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1881, page 75.