Little, Henry, Dd

Little, Henry, D.D.

a Presbyterian minister, was born at Boscawen, N.H., March 30, 1800. He was converted at six years of age, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. The same year he was ordained as a missionary under the auspices of the American Education Society, for labor in the West. In 1831 he became pastor at Oxford, Ohio, and two years later Western agent of the American Missionary Society; in 1838 pastor at Madison, Indiana, a position which he occupied for ten years. The rest of his life was devoted to home missionary work in the Presbyterian Church. He died at Madison, February 25, 1882. He was remarkably successful in pastoral labor, and in organizing missions and raising funds for their support.