Background
Budington was born in New Haven, Connecticut, April 21, 1815, the son of William and Lydia (Ives) Budington.
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William Budington
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He graduated from Yale College in 1834.
Career
After graduating he taught in the academy in New Canaan, Connecticut, for nearly a year, and then began a three years" course in the Yale Divinity School. The year 1838-1839 he spent as a resident licentiate in the Andover Theological Seminary. He was ordained pastor of the First Church (Congregational) in Charlestown, Mass, April 22, 1840, and fulfilled a happy and prosperous ministry there, until reasons connected with an impaired state of health led him to resign the charge, September 22, 1854.
His ministry in Brooklyn was from the first highly esteemed, and the office was only laid down on account of the disease from which he died.
In 1877 he was attacked with cancer of the lip, which after three operations still reappeared, each time in a more troublesome form. He resigned his pastoral office, December 22, 1878, and died in Brooklyn, November 29, 1879, in his 65th year.
He was again married, April 7, 1857, to Elizabeth West. Nicholson, of Canandaigua, North Y, who survived him. He published (in 1846) a History of the First Church, Charlestown, also several occasional sermons and review-articles The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by Amherst College in 1856.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1880 Yale Obituary Record.
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November 29, 1879 (aged 64)