Ropes, Timothy Pickering

Ropes, Timothy Pickering, a Baptist minister, was born in Oxford, N.H., Sept. 13, 1802, and was graduated at Waterville College in the class of 1827. He was ordained as an evangelist Aug. 13, 1828, and became pastor of the Baptist Church at Hampton Falls in July, 1829. He was afterwards pastor of the churches in Weston and Lexington, Mass., and for several years was engaged in teaching in different places. He went West in 1854, and for ten years was pastor of the Baptist Church in Le Roy, Minn., where he died, July 3, 1873. (J.C.S.)