William Ives Budington

He was ordained pastor of the First Church (Congregational) in Charlestown, Mass, April 22, 1840, and fulfilled a happy and prosperous ministry there, until reasons connected with an impaired state of health led him to resign the charge, September 22, 1854.

He assumed at once the pastoral care of the Western Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pa., but the death of his wife and other reasons led him to relinquish this position in the following April, when he removed to the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church in Brooklyn, N. Y., over which he was installed, December 19, 1855.

His ministry in Brooklyn was from the first highly esteemed, and the office was only laid down on account of the disease from which he died.

He was married, Jan. 5, 1841, to Elizabeth L., daughter of William Gunton, of Washington, D C, who died December 24, 1854.

This article incorporates public domain material from the 1880 Yale Obituary Record.