Lasher, George William

D.D. (Madison University, Hamilton, N.Y., 1874), Baptist; b. at Duanesburg, Schenectady County, N.Y., June 24, 1831; graduated at Madison University, Hamilton, N.Y., 1857, and at Hamilton Theological.Seminary in the same place, 1859; became pastor of First Baptist Church, Norwalk, Conn., 1859; chaplain of Fifth Connecticut Regiment Volunteers, 1861; pastor of First Baptist Church, New burgh, N.Y., 1862; of the Portland-street Church, Haver hill, Ma ., 1864; of the First Baptist Church, Trenton, N. J., 1868; secretary of the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York, 1872; was in Europe and the East, 1875 since 1876 has been editor of the Journal and Me enger, Cincinnati, O. He is the author of occasional sermons, articles in Baptist Quarterly Review, etc.