Background
Slafter, Edmund Farwell was born on May 30, 1816 in Norwich, Vermont, United States. Son of Sylvester and Mary Armstrong (Johnson) Slafter.
Slafter, Edmund Farwell was born on May 30, 1816 in Norwich, Vermont, United States. Son of Sylvester and Mary Armstrong (Johnson) Slafter.
Graduate Dartmouth, 1840 (Master of Arts Doctor of Divinity). Studied at Andover Theological Seminary. Deacon, 1844; priest, 1845.
Rector Saint Peter’s, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1844-1846. Saint John's Jamaica Plain, 1846-1853. Assistant rector Saint Paul’s, Boston, several years.
Superintendent for Protestant Episcopal Church in American Bible Society, 1857-1877, resigned.
Now registrar Diocese of Massachusetts From 1877 devoted himself to management of property and history studies. Author: Sir William Alexander and American Colonization, 1873.
Voyages of the Northmen to America, 1877. History and Causes of Incorrect Latitudes as Recorded in the Journals of Early Writers, Navigators and Explorers, 1882.
John Checkley, or, the Evolution of Religious Tolerance in Massachusetts Bay, 1897.
Home: Boston, Massachusetts
Married Mary Anne Hazen, August 16, 1849.