Royce, Lorenzo D

Royce, Lorenzo D., a Baptist minister, was born at Sharon, Vt., Oct. 5, 1820. He graduated from Waterville College, Maine, in the class of 1844, and from the Newton Theological Institution in the class of 1847. He was ordained as pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Thomaston, Me. His ministry was a brief one, his death occurring Sept. 3, 1850. He was among the most highly cultivated young ministers of his denomination, and had his life been spared would not have failed to make his mark deep on the generation in which he lived. (J.C.S.)