Background
Sewall, John Smith was born on March 20, 1830 in New Castle, Maine, United States. Son of Jotham, Junior and Rachel Crosby (Bradbury) Sewall.
Sewall, John Smith was born on March 20, 1830 in New Castle, Maine, United States. Son of Jotham, Junior and Rachel Crosby (Bradbury) Sewall.
Bachelor of Arts, Bowdoin College, 1850, Master of Arts, 1855. Graduate Bangor Theological Seminary, 1858. (Doctor of Divinity, Bowdoin, 1878).
Samuel Page Benson, Medical Corps, of Winthrop, Maine, August 7, 1858. Captain’s clerk United States Navy, 1850-1854. Member Commodore Perry’s Japan expedition.
Ordained Congleton ministry, 1859.
Pastor Wenham, Massachusetts, 1859-1867. Professor of rhetoric, oratory and English literature, Bowdoin College, 1867-1875.
Professor homiletics and sociology, 1875-1903 (emeritus), Bangor Theological Seminary Author: Logbook of the Captain’s Clerk, 1906. Home: Bangor, Maine.
Member Commodore Perry’s Japan expedition. Ordained Congleton ministry, 1859.
Married Louise, daughter