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Sleeper, William True

clergyman, poet, was born Feb. 9, 1819, in Danbury, N. H. He received his education in Exeter, N. H.; graduated from the university of Vermont in 1850; and three years later from the Andover Theological seminary. For four years he was chaplain of the reform school at Westboro, Mass.; and has filled pastorates at Patten, Sherman and Fort Fairfield, Maine; and for nineteen years at Worcester, Mass.

He was supervisor of schools in Aroostook county, Maine, during 1870-72; was editor and founder of the North Star of Caribou, Maine; and the projector and president of the Aroostook River railroad. Since 1853 he has been engaged in the ministry, and has built five churches. He is the author of a volume of poems; and has contributed extensively to current literature.