Post, Reuben

Post, Reuben a Presbyterian minister, was born in Cornwall, Vt., in 1792. He received a good academical training, and graduated with honor at Middlebury College, Vt., in 1814, and at the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J., in 1818. On leaving the seminary, he spent some time as a missionary in Virginia, then accepted a call from the First Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C., and was ordained in 1819. In 1836 he accepted a call from the Circular Church, Charleston, S. C., where he labored faithfully for twenty-three years, when lie was taken ill, and died Sept. 24, 1858. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1860, p. 77. (J. L. S.)