Taylor, Oliver Alden

Taylor, Oliver Alden a Congregational minister, was born at Yarmouth, Mass., Aug. 18, 1801. He graduated at Union College, 1825; entered the ministry November, 1828; and, spending the next eleven years in study and teaching, he became pastor at Manchester Sept. 18, 1839, and died Dec. 18, 1851. He published, Catalogue of the Andover Theological Seminars (1838): Piety

in Humble Life (1844, by the Mass. S. S. Society): — and numerous articles, original and translated, and some poems, in various periodicals. A memoir of his life by Rev. T. A. Taylor, his brother, was published in 1853, a second edition of which appeared in 1856. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 2, 725.