Background
Tarbox, Increase Niles was born on February 11, 1815 in East Windsor, Connecticut, United States. Son of Thomas and Lucy (Porter) Tarbox.
Tarbox, Increase Niles was born on February 11, 1815 in East Windsor, Connecticut, United States. Son of Thomas and Lucy (Porter) Tarbox.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1839, graduate Divinity School, 1844, honorary Doctor of Divinity. Doctor of Divinity, (honorary), Iowa College, 1869.
Ordained to ministry Congregational Church, 1844. Pastor Congregational Church, Farmington, Massachusetts, 1844-1851. Founder, an original editor Congregationalist, 1849-1851.
Secretary American Education Society (reorganized as American College and Education Society, 1874), 1851.
Edited Sir Walter Raleigh and His Colony in America, 1884, Life of Israel Putnam … Major General in the Continental Army, 1876. Historiographer New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1881-1888, wrote numerous brief memoirs of members of society which appeared in New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
Author: Winnie and Walter Stories, 4 volumes, Boston, 1860. When I Was a Boy, 1862.
Nineveh, or the Buried City, 1864.
The Curse or the Position Occupied in History by the Race of Ham, 1865. Tyre and Alexandria the Chief Commercial Cities of Scripture Times, 1865. Missionary Patriots: James H. and Edward M. Schneider, 1867.
Uncle George’s Stories, 1868.
Life of Israel Putnam (Old Pul), Major-General in the Continental Army, 1876. Sir Walter Raleigh and His Colony in America, 1884.
Songs and Hymns for Common Life, 1885. Diary of Thomas Robbins, Doctor of Divinity, 2 volumes, 1886-1887.
Married Delia (or Adelia) Waters, June 4, 1845, 4 children.