Davis, Elnathan (2)

a Congregational minister, was born at Holden, Massachusetts, August 19, 1807. He graduated from Williams College in 1834; studied two years at the Theological Institute of Hartford; and, having been appointed missionary to South Africa by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, was ordained at his native place, November 9, 1836. Changing his plans, he afterwards engaged in home missions in south Michigan and north Indiana. In 1845 he labored in the American Peace Society; in September 1846, was installed pastor at Ashburnham, Massachusetts; in 1849 was sent as a delegate to the World's Peace Convention in Paris; in 1850 became secretary of the American Peace Society; for fourteen years was pastor in Fitchburg, Massachusetts; then, for a time, secretary of the American Misssionary Association; and from 1869 to 1879 pastor in Auburn, Massachusetts, where he died, April 9, 1881. See Hist. Cat. of Theol. Inst. of Con. 1881, page 15. (J.C.S.).