Daily Baptist EncyclopediaPost by Jim Curran Bennett, Rev. Alfred, was born in Mansfield, Conn., Sept. 26, 1780

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2h  · Daily Baptist EncyclopediaPost by Jim Curran Bennett, Rev. Alfred, was born in Mansfield, Conn., Sept. 26, 1780. In his eighteenth year, in a powerful revival of religion with which Mansfield was blessed, he was drawn to Jesus by the Spirit of God. He was baptized in February, 1800, and united with the Baptist church in Hampton. In February, 1803, he became a resident of Homer, Courtland Co., N. Y. He was ordained pastor of the little church of Homer, June 18, 1807. He was visited with great revivals of religion, the result of no imported human agency, but of the special power of the divine Spirit upon the prayers and labors of pastor and people. ‘This required:a larger edifice in 1812; and in 1827 it rendered necessary the sending forth of two colonies as churches, one locating at Cortland and the other at McGrawville. He rendered much service as a missionary in the “Holland Purchase,’ and in Tioga, Steuben, and Allegany Counties. He was one of the most in- defatigable and successful workers that ever toiled for Jesus in the Empire State. ~ There was no benevolent or Christian cause that appealed to his heart or purse in vain. In 1832 he resigned his pastorate to accept an agency from the Executive Board of Foreign Missions, to plead the cause of the perishing heathen in the churches. To this cause he devoted all his energies and the rest of his days; and the Lord greatly blessed his public He died May 10, 1851, in possession of perfect peace. Mr. Bennett was a man of great benevolence ; he had superior mental powers; he was an effective speaker; he was a holy man; the Crucified was everything in his heart and in his ministry ; he was the best-known minister in several counties, and the love with which he was regarded was in- tense enough to hand down his memory with rever- ence to several succeeding generations.From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart photo from Findagrave Melissa H