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Sommers, Charles George

clergyman, author, was born March 4, 1793, in England. After a six years' pastorate in Troy, N. Y., he was called to the charge of the South Baptist church in New York city, where he remained till his retirement in 1856. He published numerous controversial articles in defense of baptist doctrines, edited a volume of Psalms and Hymns, and The Baptist Library; and was the author of a Memoir of John Stanford, D. D., with Selections from his Correspondence. He died Dec. 19, 1868, in New York city.