Dexter, Henry V, Dd

Dexter, Henry V., D.D.

a Baptist minister, was born at Wayne, Maine, April 3, 1815. He graduated from Waterville College, now Colby University, in 1842, and from the Newton Theological Institution in 1845. He was ordained in Brookline, Massachusetts, September 7, the same year, and was pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Calais, Maine, until 1854. His next pastorate was in Augusta, until 1860, and a second time in Calais. For two years (1870-72) he was at Kennebunkport, and then accepted a call to Baldwinsville, Mass., where he died July 1884. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. page 332. (J.C.S.)