Dayton, Ezra Fairchild

Dayton, Ezra Fairchild a Presbyterian minister, was born at Mendham, N.J., June 6, 1808. He graduated from New Jersey College in 1826; was principal of an academy in Baskingridge, from 1826 to 1829; spent part of a year in Princeton Seminary; was ordained an evangelist by the Presbytery of Newark, Jan. 14,1834; was stated supply at Augusta, from 1833 to 1836; at Sparta, from 1837 to 1839, and died there in October of the latter year. See Genesis Cat. of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1881, page 76.