An event which has been anticipated for some weeks past was realized yesterday in the decease of Rev. Spencer H. CONe, D. D., the well known Pastor of the First Baptist Church in this city.
Dr. Cone has been a checkered life. He has occupied different positions and has been in active life for half a century. In his death, the Baptist denomination loses one of its most distinguished members and a mourning social circle a devoted friend. Dr. Cone had passed the age of seventy years, and the burdens of age began to be laid heavily upon him. For some time past he haa been gradually failing, and indications of his approaching end were perceptible at an early period in the Summer. He died peacefully at his residence in this City at 8 o'clock yesterday morning.
Dr. CONE was a native of New Jersey, having been born at Princeton in April 1785. His father, Conant Cone, was descended from the first settlers in New England; his mother was second daughter of Col. Joab Houghton of New Jersey. Both parents were members of the Hopewell Baptist Church in Hunterdon County. Young Spencer enjoyed the advantages of a pious home education. His mother always entertained a belief that her boy was destined for the ministry and bestowed great pains upon his culture. At the age of twelve, he was fitted for College, and entered at Princeton, but remained there only for a period of two years. Domestic afflictions required his presence at home and he returned to assist the family by teaching. He never returned to College. After assisting for three months in teaching at the Academy in Princeton, he undertook the charge of a school in the town of Springfield, New Jersey and continued in that place for a year.
By Invitation from his friend Dr. Allison, he then assumed the duties of instruction in Latin and Greek at Mr. A's Academy in Bordentown to winch place the Cone family removed. The subsequent year he accepted an appointment in the Philadelphia Academy under Rev. Dr. Abercrombie and occupied that post for four or five years.
At the end of this period, however, a change came over young Cone's affairs. Teaching, then as now, afforded but a limited income in return for very severe application. Wearying of the prospect that constantly presented itself to his imagination, desirous of benefitting his family to a greater extent than he had hitherto been able to do, and believing that he had a mission for the stage, he became an actor. For seven years he remained in the theatrical profession, playing principally in Philadelphia, and realizing an income which ranged from fifteen hundred to twenty five hundred dollars.
Dr. Cone has been a checkered life. He has occupied different positions and has been in active life for half a century. In his death, the Baptist denomination loses one of its most distinguished members and a mourning social circle a devoted friend. Dr. Cone had passed the age of seventy years, and the burdens of age began to be laid heavily upon him. For some time past he haa been gradually failing, and indications of his approaching end were perceptible at an early period in the Summer. He died peacefully at his residence in this City at 8 o'clock yesterday morning.
Dr. CONE was a native of New Jersey, having been born at Princeton in April 1785. His father, Conant Cone, was descended from the first settlers in New England; his mother was second daughter of Col. Joab Houghton of New Jersey. Both parents were members of the Hopewell Baptist Church in Hunterdon County. Young Spencer enjoyed the advantages of a pious home education. His mother always entertained a belief that her boy was destined for the ministry and bestowed great pains upon his culture. At the age of twelve, he was fitted for College, and entered at Princeton, but remained there only for a period of two years. Domestic afflictions required his presence at home and he returned to assist the family by teaching. He never returned to College. After assisting for three months in teaching at the Academy in Princeton, he undertook the charge of a school in the town of Springfield, New Jersey and continued in that place for a year.
By Invitation from his friend Dr. Allison, he then assumed the duties of instruction in Latin and Greek at Mr. A's Academy in Bordentown to winch place the Cone family removed. The subsequent year he accepted an appointment in the Philadelphia Academy under Rev. Dr. Abercrombie and occupied that post for four or five years.
At the end of this period, however, a change came over young Cone's affairs. Teaching, then as now, afforded but a limited income in return for very severe application. Wearying of the prospect that constantly presented itself to his imagination, desirous of benefitting his family to a greater extent than he had hitherto been able to do, and believing that he had a mission for the stage, he became an actor. For seven years he remained in the theatrical profession, playing principally in Philadelphia, and realizing an income which ranged from fifteen hundred to twenty five hundred dollars.
An event which has been anticipated for some weeks past was realized yesterday in the decease of Rev. Spencer H. CONe, D. D., the well known Pastor of the First Baptist Church in this city.
Dr. Cone has been a checkered life. He has occupied different positions and has been in active life for half a century. In his death, the Baptist denomination loses one of its most distinguished members and a mourning social circle a devoted friend. Dr. Cone had passed the age of seventy years, and the burdens of age began to be laid heavily upon him. For some time past he haa been gradually failing, and indications of his approaching end were perceptible at an early period in the Summer. He died peacefully at his residence in this City at 8 o'clock yesterday morning.
Dr. CONE was a native of New Jersey, having been born at Princeton in April 1785. His father, Conant Cone, was descended from the first settlers in New England; his mother was second daughter of Col. Joab Houghton of New Jersey. Both parents were members of the Hopewell Baptist Church in Hunterdon County. Young Spencer enjoyed the advantages of a pious home education. His mother always entertained a belief that her boy was destined for the ministry and bestowed great pains upon his culture. At the age of twelve, he was fitted for College, and entered at Princeton, but remained there only for a period of two years. Domestic afflictions required his presence at home and he returned to assist the family by teaching. He never returned to College. After assisting for three months in teaching at the Academy in Princeton, he undertook the charge of a school in the town of Springfield, New Jersey and continued in that place for a year.
By Invitation from his friend Dr. Allison, he then assumed the duties of instruction in Latin and Greek at Mr. A's Academy in Bordentown to winch place the Cone family removed. The subsequent year he accepted an appointment in the Philadelphia Academy under Rev. Dr. Abercrombie and occupied that post for four or five years.
At the end of this period, however, a change came over young Cone's affairs. Teaching, then as now, afforded but a limited income in return for very severe application. Wearying of the prospect that constantly presented itself to his imagination, desirous of benefitting his family to a greater extent than he had hitherto been able to do, and believing that he had a mission for the stage, he became an actor. For seven years he remained in the theatrical profession, playing principally in Philadelphia, and realizing an income which ranged from fifteen hundred to twenty five hundred dollars.
Dr. Cone has been a checkered life. He has occupied different positions and has been in active life for half a century. In his death, the Baptist denomination loses one of its most distinguished members and a mourning social circle a devoted friend. Dr. Cone had passed the age of seventy years, and the burdens of age began to be laid heavily upon him. For some time past he haa been gradually failing, and indications of his approaching end were perceptible at an early period in the Summer. He died peacefully at his residence in this City at 8 o'clock yesterday morning.
Dr. CONE was a native of New Jersey, having been born at Princeton in April 1785. His father, Conant Cone, was descended from the first settlers in New England; his mother was second daughter of Col. Joab Houghton of New Jersey. Both parents were members of the Hopewell Baptist Church in Hunterdon County. Young Spencer enjoyed the advantages of a pious home education. His mother always entertained a belief that her boy was destined for the ministry and bestowed great pains upon his culture. At the age of twelve, he was fitted for College, and entered at Princeton, but remained there only for a period of two years. Domestic afflictions required his presence at home and he returned to assist the family by teaching. He never returned to College. After assisting for three months in teaching at the Academy in Princeton, he undertook the charge of a school in the town of Springfield, New Jersey and continued in that place for a year.
By Invitation from his friend Dr. Allison, he then assumed the duties of instruction in Latin and Greek at Mr. A's Academy in Bordentown to winch place the Cone family removed. The subsequent year he accepted an appointment in the Philadelphia Academy under Rev. Dr. Abercrombie and occupied that post for four or five years.
At the end of this period, however, a change came over young Cone's affairs. Teaching, then as now, afforded but a limited income in return for very severe application. Wearying of the prospect that constantly presented itself to his imagination, desirous of benefitting his family to a greater extent than he had hitherto been able to do, and believing that he had a mission for the stage, he became an actor. For seven years he remained in the theatrical profession, playing principally in Philadelphia, and realizing an income which ranged from fifteen hundred to twenty five hundred dollars.
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