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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The second Congregational and Mystic churches. (search)
years, and afterwards in Dracut and Lowell, Mass., and Danielsonville, Conn. He died in Billerica, Mass., in 1887. Two sons, Charles P. H. and William W., are now prominent in the ministry. Mr. Nason was a man of marked personality, a linguist of great fluency, a botanist of keen penetration, a genealogist of some repute, a musician, and an orator of no mean standing. He was succeeded by the Rev. E. P. Hooker. Edward P. Hooker. Rev. (now D. D.) Edward Pason Hooker was born in Poultney, Vt., July 2, 1834; graduated from Middlebury College, 1855, and from Andover Theological Seminary, 1861; and was ordained in Medford, Nov. 13, 1861. His pastorate continued till March 31, 1869, when he resigned through a conviction that some locality farther removed from the sea-coast would be more friendly to his wife's health, and was dismissed by a sympathetic council. Upon accepting his resignation the church voted the following resolution: That unexpected and painful as such resi