History of Lyme, (Grafton County) New Hampshire United States of America

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Amasa Converse, journalist, was born in Lyme, N. H., Aug. 21, 1795; son of Joel and Elizabeth (Bixby) Converse. His first ancestor in America, Joel Converse, came from England and settled in Woburn, Mass., in 1630. He gained his preparatory education by self instruction while teaching school and was graduated at Dartmouth in 1822. He studied at Princeton theological seminary, 1823, was a teacher at Chelsea and in Sanderson academy, Ashfield, Mass., 1824-26; was ordained an evangelist by the presbytery of Hanover, May 5, 1826, and served as missionary in Virginia, 1826-27. He became editor of the Visitor and Telegraph, Richmond, Va., in February, 1827. The Religious Remembrancer, the first religious weekly newspaper ever published, was started in Philadelphia in September, 1813, and was continuously published in that city until February, 1839, when the two papers were joined, and Mr. Converse became editor of the united paper, calling it the Christian Observer, and publishing it in Philadelphia till 1861. He removed it to Richmond, Va., where he edited it as an organ of the southern Presbyterian church, 1861-69; and after that in Louisville, Ky., until his death. He was married to Flavia Booth, and their sons, Francis Bartlett, Thomas Edwards, James Booth and Charles Sidney were Presbyterian clergymen, and the first three editors and publishers of the Christian Observer. He received the degree of D.D. in 1846 from Clinton college, Miss. He died in Louisville, Ky., Dec. 9, 1872.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Lyme, (Grafton County) New Hampshire

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