From July 8, 1846, to September 23, 1851, he was pastor of the Congregational Church at Mount Carmel, in the township of Hamden, Conn.; and from October 2, 1851, to February 3, 1856, he held the same relation in Plymouth, Conn.
In the fall of 1875 he removed to Maine to edit The Christian Mirror, the organ of the Congregational Churches of that State.
On April 1, 1877, he purchased the paper, and he continued as its editor and proprietor until his death, at his home in Portland, after some months of feebleness, on October 9, 1892, aged 78 years.
Besides other periodicals, he edited for three years (1867–69) The Sabbath at Home, an illustrated monthly magazine of a high order.
He next married, on January 2, 1882, Sarah, daughter of Captain John L. Lewis, and widow of Henry Cushman, of Portland, who died on November 26, 1885.