Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Hidden, Ephraim Nelson 1810 - 1880
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Author: E. O. Jameson (1886)

REV. EPHRAIM NELSON HIDDEN.

EPHRAIM NELSON HIDDEN, son of Ephraim and Dorothy (Remick) Hidden, was born Aug.
28, 1810, in Tamworth, N. H. He was the eldest of four sons in a family of six
children. When a lad of thirteen years his father met a sudden death by
drowning. In this exigency great care and responsibility fell upon the oldest
boy, and although a mere stripling he gave himself with unsparing energy to what
seemed to rest on his young shoulders. Besides doing what he could for his
family he prepared for college in Phillips Academy, Exeter, and graduated in
1836 with high classical honors from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. Among his
classmates were the Rev. E. E. Adams, D. D., the Hon. James W. Grimes, Governor
of Iowa and United States Senator, Prof. Edward R. Peaslee, M. D., the Hon. John
Wentworth, of Chicago, the Rev. Samuel C. Bartlett, D. D., President of
Dartmouth College, and many other men of honorable distinction. Mr. Hidden
ranked high in scholarship and upon graduation was appointed Principal of
Gilmanton Academy, New Hampshire, which position he filled for four years,
meanwhile pursuing his theological studies. He was ordained to the Gospel
ministry, and installed, September, 1841, pastor of the Congregational Church in
Deerfield, N. H. After a useful ministry of eight years he was called to a
larger field of service. He was installed, Nov. 21, 1849, over the
Congregational Church in Milford, N. H. His ministry in Milford was attended
with large accessions to the church and his congregation was one of the largest
in the State. Leaving Milford he labored in Deny, Candia, and Great Falls, N. H.
His last settlement was in Middleboro, Mass., although for five years, while
resident in Medway, he statedly supplied the Congregational Church in Norfolk,
Mass. He completed about forty years of Gospel service, closing his public
ministry only with his death, which occurred Nov. 28, 1880. He preached on
Sunday two sermons, returned home, and ere the coming of the morning sun he had
gone to be with his blessed Lord. He had resided in Medway but a few years and
in the retirement of a small farm, but had won all hearts to himself, so that
his death was widely lamented. The youngest daughter and only surviving child, a
young lady of rare gifts and intellectual culture, Emily Parsons Hidden, died
April 1, 1882, and Mrs. Hidden soon after removed to Chester, N. H.


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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