“ He was ordained minister of the Unitarian society in Dover, N. H., August 31, 1864, and resigned April 1, 1868, to become minister of the Independent religious society in the same city. He resigned this position at the end of six months, because, in consequence of a famous law-suit (set forth at great length in the New Hampshire Reports, Vol. 53) , the new society voted not to maintain its own independent position. ”