Background
Sheldon, David Newton was born on June 26, 1807 in Suffield, Connecticut, United States. Son of David and Elizabeth (Hall) Sheldon.
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Sheldon, David Newton was born on June 26, 1807 in Suffield, Connecticut, United States. Son of David and Elizabeth (Hall) Sheldon.
He was educated at Williams College, where he graduated as the valedictorian of the class of 1830 and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
He was also a pastor, missionary, and educator. He was a tutor for one year before entering the Andover Newton Theological School and graduating in 1835. Sheldon was a Baptisit missionary in France from 1835-1839, and a pastor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, before coming to Waterville, Maine in 1842, where he was a pastor and a French Teacher at Colby College.
Beginning in 1843, he was the president of the college and Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy.
He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Brown University in 1847. He held various pastorships in Bath, Maine, including as a Unitarian from 1853-1862 before returning to Waterville, where he continued as a Unitarian pastor until 1879.
Sheldon died at his home in Waterville on October 4, 1889.
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Married Rachel Hobart Ripley, 1835, 4 sons, 1 daughter.