Edward Hollister (1796 - 1870)

Born 22 Feb 1796 in Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Trumbull) Hollister — married about 25 Aug 1823 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 11 Jan 1870 at age 73 in Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States

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Biography

"He entered the Sophomore class at Middlebury College, Vt, in 1812, and graduated in 1816; took charge of the academy in Newcastle for one year, then entered the theological seminary at Andover, Mass., and went through the three years course; in 1820, was licensed and ordained by the presbytery of Londonderry, Vt.; went to Missouri under the direction of the Connecticut Missionary Society, and served that society until the spring of 1822; receiving an invitation from Danville, Vt., he became pastor of the church there, labored about three years, then lost his health and went to the South for the benefit of a milder climate, first to Charleston, S.C., thence to Buffalo Springs in southern Virginia, and thence, about 1829, to Oxford, Granville Co., N.C., and took charge of a large female seminary.

With improved health he tried to live in the West in 1834, but too much exposure on the prairies at Griggsville, Pike Co., Ill., brought sickness, and just then came an invitation from old southern friends, now living in West Tennessee, to take charge of a seminary for young ladies. So he spent seven years at Somerville, and La Grange, with such improvement of health as to justify another trial of the climate of Illinois.

He served under the American Home Missionary Society five years, and subsequently in an agency for the American Bible Society seven years. He married at Salem, now Danvers, Mass., Aug. 25, 1823, Mary Trumbull of that town, a cultivated lady who shared all his labors."

Born 22 Feb 1796 in Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States^[1][2]

baptized in Sharon, CT 8 May 1796^[3]

Edward Hollister and Mary Trumbull married 3 Aug 1823 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States^[4][5][6][7] or 25 Aug 1823 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States^[8][9][10]

BURIAL Alton Cemetery Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG15-4NMD : 15 April 2022), Edward Hollister, ; citing Birth, Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272233.
2. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74G-V4F : 7 January 2020), Edward Hollister, 1796.
3. ↑ Born, Married and Died, in Sharon, Connecticut By Lawrence Van Alstyne, 1897. https://books.google.com/books?id=3Ra5lKJGHAYC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=josiah+patience+hollister+lucy&source=bl&ots=8lkA02guQW&sig=BKvjQWtXNZnGF_CBxh10aAYrMfQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi706zjmOTSAhVY-2MKHRdwDNYQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=hollister&f=false
4. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCQK-3MD : 29 July 2021), Edward Hollister, 1823.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHB7-JZZ : 28 July 2021), Edward Hollister, 1823.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-851P : 20 May 2022), Edward Hollister, 3 Aug 1823; citing Marriage, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004029870.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ZR-R8WY : 6 May 2022), Edward Hollister and Mary Trumbrell, 03 Aug 1823; citing Marriage, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004269391.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC8N-H5S : 28 July 2021), Edward Hollister, 1823.
9. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHTG-5PV : 28 July 2021), Edward Hollister, 1823.
10. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-VLPN : 19 May 2022), Edward Hollister and Mary Trumbull, 25 Aug 1823; citing Marriage, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009571.
11. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89728873/edward-hollister: accessed 03 December 2022), memorial page for Rev Edward Hollister (22 Feb 1796–12 Jan 1870), Find a Grave Memorial ID 89728873, citing Alton Cemetery, Alton, Madison County, Illinois, USA; Maintained by Daniel Hollister (contributor 49312256) .

• No. 1152, pg 179 and 343-344 - Hollister Family of America compiled by Lafayette Wallace Case, MD 1886 - https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=5eNUAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1
• Born, Married and Died, in Sharon, Connecticut By Lawrence Van Alstyne, 1897. https://books.google.com/books?id=3Ra5lKJGHAYC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=josiah+patience+hollister+lucy&source=bl&ots=8lkA02guQW&sig=BKvjQWtXNZnGF_CBxh10aAYrMfQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi706zjmOTSAhVY-2MKHRdwDNYQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=hollister&f=false