Wing, Conway Phelos

D.D. (Dick in son College, Car lisle, Penn., 1,J7), Presbyterian; b. at Marietta, O., Feb. 12, 1809; graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., 1828, and at Auburn Theological Seminary, N.Y., 1831; was pastor at Sodus, N.Y., 1831-36; Ogden, N.Y., 1836-38; Monroe, Mich., 1838-41; Columbia, Tenn., 1841-42; Huntsville, Ala., 1842-48; Car lisle, "Penn. (First Church), 1848-76. He was active in the revivals of 1832-35, in the antislavery agitation in Western New York, zealous in opposition to slavery in Tenne ee and Alabama, a member of the Joint Committee of Reconstruction for the Presbyterian Church in 1870. He was an adherent of the New-School branch of the Presbyterian Church, but a warm supporter of the re-union in 1869 and 1870. He translated Hase's Manual of Ecclesiastical History (with Profe or Blumenthal), New York, 1856; Kling's Commentary on Second Cori?ithians (with large additions) in Schaffs edition of Lange's Commentary, 1868; wrote History of the Presbyteries of Donegal and Car lisle, Car lisle, 1876; A History of the First Presbyterian Church of Car lisle, 1877; A History of Cumber land County, Penn., 1879; Historical and Genealogical Register of the Descenckmts of John Wing of Sandwich, New York, 1885, 2d ed. 1886; eleven elaborate articles in Presbyterian and Methodist Quarterly Reviews; two extensive articles in McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, vols, iv., v. (1870 and 1872); many articles in New- York Evangelist and in The Christian Observer, etc.