Ferrin, Clark Elam, Dd

Ferrin, Clark Elam, D.D.

a Congregational minister, was born at Holland, Vermont, July 20, 1818. In 1845 he graduated from the University of Vermont, and, after teaching two years in Georgia, graduated in 1850 from Andover Theological Seminary. He was ordained December 9 following, at Barton, Vermont, and remained with that Church until December 13, 1854. From February 9, 1856, until September 7, 1877, he was pastor in Hinesburg, and in Plainfield from February 1878, till his death, June 27, 1881. During twenty- four years he was a member of the corporation of the Vermont University. In 1858 and 1859 he represented Hinesburg in the State Legislature, He was the author of several pamphlets. See Cong. Yearbook, 1882, page 30.