Background
Beard, Augustus Field was born on May 11, 1833 in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States. Son of Algernon Edwin and Mary E. (Mallory) Beard.
Beard, Augustus Field was born on May 11, 1833 in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States. Son of Algernon Edwin and Mary E. (Mallory) Beard.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1857, A.M., 1860. Auburn Theological Seminary, 1857-1858. Graduate Union Theological Seminary, 1860.
(Doctor of Divinity, Syracuse University, 1875).
Ordained Congleton ministry, 1860. Pastor Cape Elizabeth, Maine, 1860-1862, Bath, Maine, 1862-1869, Syracuse, New York, 1869-1883, American Church, Paris, France, 1883-1886. Correspondent secretary American Missionary Association, since 1886.
Foreign secretary American and Foreign Christian Union, 1883-1886. Editor American Missionary Magazine, since 1905. Home: Norwalk, Conn.
Married Eliza Payson Goddard, August 19, 1861. Married second, Annie D. Barker, January 2, 1865.