Field, Henry Martyn

D.D. (Williams College, 1862), Presbyterian; b. at Stock bridge, Ma ., April 3, 1822; graduated at Williams College, Williams town, Ma ., 1838, and at East Windsor Hill (now Hartford) Theological Seminary, Conn., 1841; studied at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Conn., 1841-42; was pastor in St. Louis, Mo., 1842-47; at West Springfield, Ma ., 1850- 54; from 1854 has been an editor and proprietor of The Evangelist, a Presbyterian denominational weekly, published in New-York City; since 1870, sole editor and proprietor. He has been an extensive traveller, having been five times in Europe, twice in the East, and once round the world. He has written The Irish Confederates, and the Rebellion of 1798, New York, 1851; Summer Pictures from Copenhagen to Venice, 1859; History of the Atlantic Telegraph, 1866; From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn, 1876; From Egypt to Japan, 1877 (of the two last named, fifteen editions have been i ued); On the Desert; with Review of Events in Egypt, 1883; Among the Holy Hills (Palestine), 1884; The Greek Islands and Turkey after the War, 1885.