Ide, George Barton, Dd

Ide, George Barton, D.D.

a Baptist minister, was born at Coventry, Vermont, in 1806, his father being a well-known Baptist clergyman, Reverend John Ide, who, in 1800, had removed from New York to northern Vermont. His father gave him the best education he could secure for him, and he decided to enter the profession of law, the study of which he commenced, without having taken a collegiate course, at the age of eighteen, in the village of Brandon. He graduated from Middlebury College with the highest honors in 1830; soon after was ordained at Derby, Connecticut; was invited, in 1834, to a church in Albany, N.Y.; in 1835 to the Federal Street Baptist Church in Boston, Massachusetts; in 1838 to the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and in 1852 to Springfield, Massachusetts, where he died, April 16, 1872. Dr. Ide was one of the most distinguished ministers of his denomination. He published several works, among which were Life

Sketches of Life Truths, and Bible Pictures. He also wrote several Sunday- school books. See The Watchman, April 1872. (J.C.S.)