Boyden, Rev. Jabez S., was born in Essex Co., N. Y., in 1831

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Boyden, Rev. Jabez S., was born in Essex Co., N. Y., in 1831 ; brought to Michigan while still an infant; baptized in Mooreville, in June, 1850, and educated for the ministry at Kalamazoo College, from which he graduated in 1856. He settled at once as pastor in Novi, and was ordained in No- vember of the same year. His successive pastorates were, in Flint, four years; in Novi, again three years ; in Howell, four years; in Franklin, Ind., one year; in Ypsilanti, seven years. During all this time he was continuously in the pastorate without the intermission of a single day. At Novi he baptized 117; in Flint, 63; in Howell, 163 ; and during the time of the Franklin and Ypsilanti pas- torates, 163. While pastor at Flint he was one year chaplain of the 10th Regiment of Mich. Vols., Infantry. In August, 1879; he became financial secretary of Kalamazoo College, and is at present residing in Kalamazoo, engaged most vigorously in the work of securing an adequate endowment for the college, and the means for defraying its current expenses. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart