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Rev Eleazer Brainerd

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Rev Eleazer Brainerd

Birth
Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Death
24 Jul 1854 (aged 61)
Oxford, Butler County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Oxford, Butler County, Ohio, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.4952577, Longitude: -84.7295676
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ELEAZER BRAINARD, the eldest son of Gideon and Hephzibah (Hubbard) Brainard, of Haddam, Connecticut, was born in Haddam on July 7, 1793.

From 1819 to 1822 he was a student in the Andover Theological Seminary, and then spent some time in city missionary work in Charleston, South Carolina.

On October 26, 1825, he was ordained in Salem, Massachusetts, for home missionary service in Ohio in connection with the Presbyterian Church.

In August, 1827, he married Lucinda, daughter of Captain Thomas and Lucinda (Wheeler) Reed, of Boston.

He labored with various churches in Southern Ohio, as from 1828 to 1836 in Portsmouth, in 1839–40 in Lewis, in 1843–46 in Mason, in 1847–50 in Oxford, and in 1850–53 in Manchester. He died on July 24, 1854, at the age of 61.

His children were two sons and three daughters.

—Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Graduates of Yale College, Supplement, 1913, p. 31.
ELEAZER BRAINARD, the eldest son of Gideon and Hephzibah (Hubbard) Brainard, of Haddam, Connecticut, was born in Haddam on July 7, 1793.

From 1819 to 1822 he was a student in the Andover Theological Seminary, and then spent some time in city missionary work in Charleston, South Carolina.

On October 26, 1825, he was ordained in Salem, Massachusetts, for home missionary service in Ohio in connection with the Presbyterian Church.

In August, 1827, he married Lucinda, daughter of Captain Thomas and Lucinda (Wheeler) Reed, of Boston.

He labored with various churches in Southern Ohio, as from 1828 to 1836 in Portsmouth, in 1839–40 in Lewis, in 1843–46 in Mason, in 1847–50 in Oxford, and in 1850–53 in Manchester. He died on July 24, 1854, at the age of 61.

His children were two sons and three daughters.

—Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Graduates of Yale College, Supplement, 1913, p. 31.


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