Breed, William Pratt

D.D. (New-York University, 1864), Presbyterian; b. at Green bush, N.Y., Aug. 23, 1816; graduated at the University, New-York City, 1843; and at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1846; pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, 1847-56; and since, of the West Spruce-street Church, Philadelphia, Penn. He took a leading part in the movement to erect (1877) the monument to Wither spoon, in Fair-. mount Park, Philadelphia, and delivered A His-- torical Discourse on Presbyterians and the Revolution. (subsequently published) in many places in its behalf. He made the addre of welcome to the delegates of the Second General Council of the Alliance of the Reformed Churches, September, 1880, and read a paper before them on The Diffusion of Presbyterian Literature. He is the author of many volumes for Sunday-school libraries, and others of more permanent value, including Presbyterianism Three Hundred Years ago, Philadelphia, 1872; Handbook for Funerals [n.d.]; A Model Christian Worker, John Potter, 1879; Aboard and Abroad in 1884, New York, 1885. *