This son of Alfred and Adriana (Green) Bryant, was born at South Bend, Ind., June 15, 1836. He united with the Presbyterian Church of Crown Point, Ind., at the age of fourteen. He studied in the preparatory department of Wabash College, and graduated from the college in 1857. He at once entered the seminary at Princeton, graduating after the regular three years' course in 1860. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Passaic, April 18, 1860, and ordained an evangelist by Alton Presbytery (N.S.) at Vandalia, Ill., Oct, 1861. He served the following churches, in each instance as stated supply: the Congregational Church of Gaysville, Vt., 1860-1861: the Presbyterian Church of Vandalia, Ill. 1861-62; of Durand, Ill., 1862-64; of Hastings, Mich., 1864-67; the Congregational Church of Atkinson, Ill., 1867-69; the Presbyterian Church of Garden Prairie, Ill., 1869-71; of Flushing, Mich., 1872-75; of Independance, Mich., 1875-77; of Plymouth, Mich., 1878-80; of Brighton, Mich., 1881-84; of East Jordon, Mich., 1885-1889. In this last charge he died, after a life of varied and unremitting usefulness, at East Jordon, Mich., Dec. 8, 1889, of typhoid fever, in the 54th year of his age. He was a kind, earnest and practical Christian minister, anxious to do only good, without self-seeking.
He married, May 20, 1864, Miss Emerette J. Carson, of Durand, Ill., who survives him with two sons.
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