Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Griffin, Clarence E. 1793 - 1876
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Author: E. O. Jameson (1886)

REV. SEWALL HARDING.

SEWALL HARDING, son of Capt. John and Beulah (Metcalf) Harding, was born March
20, 1793, in Medway, Mass. He pursued his preparatory studies somewhat under the
instruction of the Rev. Luther Wright, and during this period he became a
Christian and united, May 30, 1813, with the same church of which he was to
become, twenty-five years later, the revered pastor. Mr. Harding graduated in
1818 from Union College, New York. He studied theology with the Rev. Drs. Emmons
and Ide, and was ordained and installed Jan. 17, 1S21, pastor of the First
Congregational Church, Waltham, Mass. During his ministry in that town a
division of the church occurred, and the Rev. Mr. Harding was pastor of the
so-called Trinitarian Congregational Church. After a ministry in Waltham of
sixteen years, the Rev. Mr. Harding was called and settled as pastor of the
First Church of Christ in his native town, where he labored very successfully
from 1837 to 1851, when he retired from the pastorate and became the Secretary
of the Congregational Board of Publication, which office he filled until 1863,
having his residence in Auburndale, Mass. The last fifteen years of his life he
retired from public duties. His death occurred April 12, 1876, and his burial
took place from the First Church of Christ in Medway, and he was interred in the
old cemetery of his native town. The Rev. Mr. Harding was faithful, laborious,
and successful in his profession, sprightly and social in his daily intercourse,
a Hopkinsonian in theology, a very vigorous advocate of sound doctrine, an
abolitionist in the very start of that movement, and a warm-hearted
philanthropist. He cheerfully gave his two daughters to the work of Foreign
Missions. Mrs. Harding was also a native of Medway; she died Feb. 3, 1877, and
was buried by the side of her husband.


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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