Cooley, Henry Edwards

Cooley, Henry Edwards a Congregational minister, was born at Norwich, Connecticut, April 5, 1838. He received his preparatory education at Phillips Academy, Andover, graduated from Yale College in 1863, and from Yale Divinity School in 1866; was ordained at the First Church, Plymouth, August 7 of that year, and remained there until March 31, 1869; was acting pastor at the First Church, Winsted, the next year, and the year following at South Weymouth, Mass. He was pastor at Littleton from May 9,1872, until October 29, 1874, and at Leominster from November 10, 1874, until his death, February 17, 1877. (W.P.S.)