First Church of Meriden & church of Westchester claimed as ministers raised up
1806 – born Avon CT, s/o Rufus Forward Hawley, s/o Rufus & Deborah Kent Hawley
1 year at Lane Theol. Seminary, 3 years at Yale in New Haven, CT
one intermediate year as tutor at Illinois College
1836 – Licentiate of New Haven, CT West Association (Congregationalists)
1837 – accepted by American board as foreign missionary; nixed by financial crisis
1838 – ordained as evangelist in Plymouth NH and sent to LaHarpe IL by AHMS
1838 – Apr 21 to Emily P. d/of Rev. Ebenezer Price of NH
1839 – Nov to May 1841 – Dubuque Iowa
1842 – Sept – Payson Illinois
1844 – Apr to May 1848 – Church in South Norwalk, CT, employed by Missionary Society of CT
1846 – wrote Congregationalism & Methodism
1847 – wrote Defence of the Fathers of New England
1848 – May – 1851 First Presbyterian Knoxville IL
1851-1856 – Congregational Payson IL
1856-1858 – Home Missionary
1859 – Apr – Dec 1862, Congregational Church of Macomb IL
1862 – Dec – chaplain of US Overton Hospital Memphis, TN, then Conn. Missioanry Society
1869 – Dec 28. died in Memphis of dysentery
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZtACAAAAQAAJ
Obituary Record of the Graduates fo Yale College
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1869-70.pdf