Richmond, Edward, Dd

Richmond, Edward, D.D.

a Congregational minister, was born at Middleborough, Massachusetts, in 1767. He graduated from Brown University in 1789; studied theology under Reverend Dr. Gurney, of North Middleborolugh; was ordained pastor of the Church in Sloughton, December 5, 1792; dismissed, January 15, 1817; installed at Dorchester, June 25 following; dismissed in 1833; then resided for several years in Braintree, and died in Boston, April 10, 1842. Dr. Richmond was a candid man, a close and acute reasoner, and was much respected as a minister and a neighbor. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 2:417.