Born ‎17 Apr 1832 New York City, New York, died ‎30 Dec 1919 Montclair, New Jersey‎, 87 years, buried ‎ Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, Rockland, NY

Born ‎23 Aug 1829 Barre, Vermont, died ‎4 Feb 1885 Jersey City, New Jersey‎, 55 years, buried ‎ Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, Rockland, NY, ‎1st marriage to: Kate Amelia MERRIFIELD, ‎2nd marriage to: Julia Norton DEY
Note: His early education came in two schools of which his father was principal. Entered Williams College as a sophomore in Fall 1849. Graduated Salutatorian in 1852. Taught one year in a private school in Brooklyn, New York. Graduated from Union
Theological Seminary in 1856. He was the Presbyterian Minister at Bergen, New Jersey (later called Jersey City Heights) for 28 years. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Williams College in1876. The Reverend Edward French was reputed to
maintain a station in the Underground Railroad.