MONTGOMERY COUNTY OHIO BIO: COLBY, Rev. H. F. (published 1882)
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"The History of Montgomery County, Ohio" by W.H. Beers & Co.  1882


Rev. H.F. Colby, pastor first Baptist Church, Dayton.  The gentleman whose name 
heads this sketch was born in Boston Highlands, Massachusetts, in 1842.  He is
the son of Gardner Colby a merchant of Boston.  Most of his early days were 
spent in Newton, mass.  He graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in
1862.  After studying law for some months and spending nearly a year in Europe,
he took a full course of study in the Newton Theological Institution, from
which he graduated in 1867.  In the fall of the same year, he came to Datyon, 
Ohio, and was ordained to the ministry and became pastor of the First Baptist
Church.  In this position he has continued fourteen years and has been settled
longer in Dayton as a pastor than any other of the ministers in the city.  In
1870, he was married to Miss M.L. Chamberlain, daughter of Edward Chamberlain, 
Esq., of Boston.  He has four children, one daughter and three sons.

 
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