Sanders, Daniel Clarke, Dd

Sanders, Daniel Clarke, D.D., A Unitarian Congregational minister, was born in Sturbridge, Mass., May 3, 1768. He was prepared for college by Rev. Samuel West, admitted at Harvard in 1784, and graduated in 1788. After his graduation he engaged in teaching. He was licensed to preach by the Denham Association, and was ordained and installed pastor of the Congregational Church in Vergennes, Vt., June 12, 1794. He continued in this charge about six years, when he became president of the University of Vermont, which position he held fourteen years. He was installed as pastor at Medfield, Mass., May 24, 1815. He was a member of the convention that revised the constitution of Massachusetts in 1820-21. He retired from his pastoral charge in 1829. He died at Medfield, Oct. 18, 1850. His published works consist of a History of the Indian Wars, etc. (Montpelier, Vt., 1812, 8vo), besides more than thirty Sermons. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 8, 226 sq.