Ives, Dwight, Dd

Ives, Dwight, D.D.

a Baptist minister, was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, September 20, 1805. He graduated at Brown University in 1835, and was ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church in Springfield, Mass., soon after. He removed to Alton, Illinois, in 1836, to take charge of the Baptist church in that place, where he had a very successful ministry. The climate proving unfavorable to his health, he returned to New England, and became pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Suffield, Connecticut, in 1839, and continued in office until 1874. His pastorate here was one of great ability, and singularly blessed. He took a deep interest in the establishment of the Connecticut Literary Institution, a seminary of a high order, under the patronage of the Baptists of Connecticut. He resigned his pastorate in April 1874, and removed to Conway, Massachusetts, where he performed ministerial duties as his health would permit, until his death, December 22, 1875. (J.C.S.)