Rev Albert BalDwin DoD DD son of Daniel was in Mendham NJ March 24 1805 Albert was like father not only in his mathematical tastes but in the of his genius and his quickness in mastering a subject amounting almost to intuition From the he knew how to read he evinced a great fondness for books and his brothers would often tell him that he ought have been a girl as he cared for nothing but to stay in house and read He was very affectionate in his spirit gentle in his manners and always the favorite of the children When his parents removed to Elizabethtown was seven years old and from that time was kept at school He fitted for College at a classical school in town taught by a Mr Smith When he was fourteen teacher told his parents that it was useless for him to his school any longer as he was in advance of his schoolfellows and was prepared to enter the Sophomore class Princeton His parents thinking that he was too young commence a collegiate course concluded to send him Dr Armstrong who had resigned hid pastoral change was then teaching a classical school in the neighboring of Bloomfield He remained there however but one term and spent the winter of that year at home reading the younger children of the family In the spring of 1821 being then fifteen years of age the Sophomore class in Princeton College half advanced He became hopefully pious the first year he was in and joined the Church in Princeton He the autumn of 1822 being seventeen and a half years old The Hon Samuel Southard and Mr Dod's father had from life been intimate friends Mr Southard who was then of the Navy attended the Commencement exercises year that Albert graduated and immediately wrote to his congratulating him that he had a son of so much and offering to advance him in the Navy if he consent to enter it But the son had already chosen the ministry as his profession and he wished to be engaged teaching until he should be of suitable age to enter the Theological Seminary When this was communicated to Mr Southard he immediately wrote back that application just been made to him for a teacher by a gentleman of acquaintance near Fredericksburg Va and recommended the son of his friend should accept the place He did so went the same fall in which he was graduated and there in circumstances very agreeable to him between and four years. On his return from Virginia he remained at home a months and in the autumn of 1826 became a member of Theological Seminary at Princeton The next year he ac cepted the Tutorship in Princeton College still continuing his theological studies as he had opportunity He was to preach in the spring of 1828 by the Presbytery of but retained his office as Tutor till 1829 In 1830 he appointed to the Mathematical Professorship in the College a place that was eminently congenial with his tastes habits This appointment he accepted and discharged duties of the office with signal ability and fidelity Here continued till his death which took place November 20j He died of pleurisy after an illness of a week during the whole time maintained the utmost serenity spirit For various Obituary Notices see Appendix Professor Dod was invited to take charge of several different but uniformly declined from a conviction that usefulness could not be promoted by leaving the College however preached a great deal and his labors were frc put in requisition to supply destitute pulpits in both New York and Philadelphia He published nothing except a few articles in the Biblical Bepertory One of those articles on Transcendentalism was printed in a separate pamphlet and attracted great attention The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by the University of North Carolina in 1844 and by the University of New York in 1845 He was married April 12 1830 to Caroline S daughter of the late Hon Samuel Bayard of Princeton They had eight children seven of whom survived him. 1 Martha Bayard Dod born May 15 1831 married Edwin A Stevens of Hoboken August 22 1854