Rev. JEREMIAH STODDARD, son of Captain Abel and Mary (Fellows) Stoddard, was born in Greene, Me., July 11, 1794, and died in the same town, December 18, 1875, in his eighty-second year. When he was a lad of four years, his family moved to the town of Durham, Me., and lived there seventeen years, and from thence to Farmington, in the same State, where he attended an academy for four years, and fitted himself for teaching. It is said that he taught school for twenty-two terms. He was also noted as a teacher of singing.
In 1829 he began to preach as an itinerant, and continued to do so for sixteen years, preaching, it is said, in no less than a hundred towns. In 1831 he received the rite of baptism by immersion from the hands of Rev. Thomas Doloff, in the town of Jay. He was ordained in February, 1845, at Canton, Me., he being at that time fifty-one years of age. He was a good general scholar, excelling especially in mathematics, and was withal quite an inventive genius. He spent much time and labor on a project for perpetual motion, as many had done before him, and with as little success. He preached in Canton, Me., for a couple of years, and in 1845 moved to Boston, and for six years lived there and preached as he had opportunity. For one year he lived in Springfield, Mass., then for twelve years in Milford, in the same State. In 1864 he returned to his native town, where he spent the remainder of his life.
In 1825 he was married, in Farmington, Me., to Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Shubel Smith, and she, with three children--one son and two daughters--remains, three children having died before him. Mr. Stoddard was a deep thinker, a good writer, an instructive preacher, very retiring in his manner, and a man of pure life and sterling integrity.
Biographical sketch from "The Universalist Register, Containing the Statistics of the Church, with an Almanac for 1875", published by the Universalist Publishing House, 1875
In 1829 he began to preach as an itinerant, and continued to do so for sixteen years, preaching, it is said, in no less than a hundred towns. In 1831 he received the rite of baptism by immersion from the hands of Rev. Thomas Doloff, in the town of Jay. He was ordained in February, 1845, at Canton, Me., he being at that time fifty-one years of age. He was a good general scholar, excelling especially in mathematics, and was withal quite an inventive genius. He spent much time and labor on a project for perpetual motion, as many had done before him, and with as little success. He preached in Canton, Me., for a couple of years, and in 1845 moved to Boston, and for six years lived there and preached as he had opportunity. For one year he lived in Springfield, Mass., then for twelve years in Milford, in the same State. In 1864 he returned to his native town, where he spent the remainder of his life.
In 1825 he was married, in Farmington, Me., to Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Shubel Smith, and she, with three children--one son and two daughters--remains, three children having died before him. Mr. Stoddard was a deep thinker, a good writer, an instructive preacher, very retiring in his manner, and a man of pure life and sterling integrity.
Biographical sketch from "The Universalist Register, Containing the Statistics of the Church, with an Almanac for 1875", published by the Universalist Publishing House, 1875
Rev. JEREMIAH STODDARD, son of Captain Abel and Mary (Fellows) Stoddard, was born in Greene, Me., July 11, 1794, and died in the same town, December 18, 1875, in his eighty-second year. When he was a lad of four years, his family moved to the town of Durham, Me., and lived there seventeen years, and from thence to Farmington, in the same State, where he attended an academy for four years, and fitted himself for teaching. It is said that he taught school for twenty-two terms. He was also noted as a teacher of singing.
In 1829 he began to preach as an itinerant, and continued to do so for sixteen years, preaching, it is said, in no less than a hundred towns. In 1831 he received the rite of baptism by immersion from the hands of Rev. Thomas Doloff, in the town of Jay. He was ordained in February, 1845, at Canton, Me., he being at that time fifty-one years of age. He was a good general scholar, excelling especially in mathematics, and was withal quite an inventive genius. He spent much time and labor on a project for perpetual motion, as many had done before him, and with as little success. He preached in Canton, Me., for a couple of years, and in 1845 moved to Boston, and for six years lived there and preached as he had opportunity. For one year he lived in Springfield, Mass., then for twelve years in Milford, in the same State. In 1864 he returned to his native town, where he spent the remainder of his life.
In 1825 he was married, in Farmington, Me., to Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Shubel Smith, and she, with three children--one son and two daughters--remains, three children having died before him. Mr. Stoddard was a deep thinker, a good writer, an instructive preacher, very retiring in his manner, and a man of pure life and sterling integrity.
Biographical sketch from "The Universalist Register, Containing the Statistics of the Church, with an Almanac for 1875", published by the Universalist Publishing House, 1875
In 1829 he began to preach as an itinerant, and continued to do so for sixteen years, preaching, it is said, in no less than a hundred towns. In 1831 he received the rite of baptism by immersion from the hands of Rev. Thomas Doloff, in the town of Jay. He was ordained in February, 1845, at Canton, Me., he being at that time fifty-one years of age. He was a good general scholar, excelling especially in mathematics, and was withal quite an inventive genius. He spent much time and labor on a project for perpetual motion, as many had done before him, and with as little success. He preached in Canton, Me., for a couple of years, and in 1845 moved to Boston, and for six years lived there and preached as he had opportunity. For one year he lived in Springfield, Mass., then for twelve years in Milford, in the same State. In 1864 he returned to his native town, where he spent the remainder of his life.
In 1825 he was married, in Farmington, Me., to Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Shubel Smith, and she, with three children--one son and two daughters--remains, three children having died before him. Mr. Stoddard was a deep thinker, a good writer, an instructive preacher, very retiring in his manner, and a man of pure life and sterling integrity.
Biographical sketch from "The Universalist Register, Containing the Statistics of the Church, with an Almanac for 1875", published by the Universalist Publishing House, 1875
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