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Patton, Alfred Spencer

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 12, 1825, in England. In 1864 he was invited to Utica, N. Y., and there built the Tabernacle Baptist church. In 1872 he purchased the American Baptist, an anti-slavery journal, in New York city, changing its name to The Baptist Weekly. He wrote Light in the Valley; My Joy and Crown; Kincaid, the Hero Missionary: The Losing and Taking of Mansoul, or Lectures on the Holy War; and Live for Jesus. He died Jan. 12, 1888, in Brooklyn, N. Y.