Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Axtell, Rev Seth J December 18, 1841 - 
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Author: E. O. JAMESON

REV. SETH J. AXTELL.

SETH J. AXTELL, son of Seth J. and Lucy B. (Stratton) Axtell, was born Dec. 
18, 1841, in Worcester, Mass. He was descended from Thomas Axtell, who came 
from Burkhamstead, England, about 1642, to America, and whose brother was 
Colonel Daniel Axtell, a brave officer under Cromwell in command of the guards 
at the time of Charles I., and subsequently executed as a regicide, by Charles 
II. Thomas Axtell, immigrant, settled in Sudbury, Mass.; his son, Henry 
Axtell, was killed by the Indians April 21, 1676. Thomas Axtell, son of Henry 
Axtell, settled in Grafton, Mass. He is reported to have said of his two 
sons: "One was over much righteous and the other over much wicked." Seth J. 
Axtell, the subject of this sketch, from childhood was fond of books. Having 
passed through the public schools of Grafton he fitted for college at Pierce 
Academy, Middleboro, Mass., and graduated from Brown University in 1864. While 
a member of college he served one year as a soldier of the Union army in the 
41st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. He pursued his professional studies in 
Newton Seminary, Mass., and was ordained to the work of the ministry Jan. 31, 
1868, and installed over the Baptist Church in Monroe, Mich. He resigned and 
Dec. 1, 1870, settled as pastor of the Baptist Church in West Medway, where he 
remained until April, 1878, when he became President of the Leland University 
in New Orleans, La. He held this position several years, and then became 
pastor of the Baptist Church in Weymouth, Mass.




Additional Comments:
THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS, AND The Genealogical Records 
OF MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES 
IN MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886.

Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

BY
E. O. JAMESON,

THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS.." ETC.

MILLIS, MASS. 1886.

 Copyright, 1886.

E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS.

All Rights Reserved.

 J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.



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