Background
Rockwell, son of Martin and Mary (Burrall) Rockwell, was born in Colebrook, Connecticut, November 22, 1806.
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Charles Rockwell
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He graduated from Yale College in 1826. In 1834, he completed a three years" course of theological study at Andover Seminary, and for two and a half years after his ordination, at Hartford, September 23, 1834, he performed service as Chaplain in the United States Navy, attached to vessels of the Mediterranean squadron.
Career
After leaving college, he was engaged in teaching for about five years,—for more than two of them in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum in Hartford, Connecticut As a result of this cruise he published in 1842 two volumes of Sketches of Foreign Travel and Life at Sea. The health of his family rendering a change of climate desirable, he removed in 1846 to Pontiac, Michigan, and after preaching there for a year, went to Kentucky for two years of preaching and teaching.
After closing this pastorate, in 1866, he published a volume on The Catskill Mountains and the Regions Around, which passed through several editions.
He continued for several years preaching and teaching in various places, and finally at the age of 74, in infirm health, became an inmate of the Home for Aged Men, in Albany, North Y., in October, 1880. He died there, of dropsy, April 17, 1882.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1882 Yale Obituary Record.
