Sprague. 1821 Sermon Life & Death of Rev. Joseph Lathrop, D.D.

Sprague, William Buell. A Sermon, preached January 3, 1821, at the Interment of the Reverend Joseph Lathrop, D.D. Senior Pastor of the First Church in West-Springfield. Hartford: Printed by S. Lincoln, 1821. First Edition. [10509] Trimmed pamphlet, no wrapper, remnant of small paper label on front, 8 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches, 33 clean pp. Good. Pamphlet. The text is 2 Kings 2:12, "And he saw him no more: and he took his own clothes and rent them into two pieces." After describing just reasons for grief, Dr. Sprague gives a review of the life of Dr. Lathrop. Joseph Lathrop, D.D. (1731-1820), b. Norwich, Connecticut; a fifth-generation American at the time of his birth, being a descendant of Rev. John Lothropp, who came to the colonies in 1634 and settled at Barnstable, Mass. DAB neglects our subject, but Sprague has a glowing 13-page article preserving Dr. Lathrop’s memory in his Annals. Sprague, in fact, was ordained in Lathrop’s church at West Springfield in 1819, afterwards serving as a co