Oration, Delivered Before The Burritt Literary Society of Farmers College Ohio. Zachos published a poem by Colton in his book The New American Speaker entitled The Price of Eloquence. In 1851, Colton became a missionary in the south, he moved to Holly Springs, Mississippi. He was the Principal of St Thomas Hall Military Boys School, and associate rector of Christ Church. Bishop Polk was a fan of the Western Episcopal Observer he began to circulate it in his Diocese during the forties. Polk was one of the largest slaveholders in the south he was a proponent of educating slaves. In 1854, Colton was assistant to Bishop Leonidas Polk in New Orleans for eight months. The church was the Trinity Church New Orleans. Colton from 1855 became rector of Christ Church, St. Luke's Church (Smithfield, Virginia) for three years. In 1858, he became the rector of Hungars Church, Northampton County, Virginia for the next ten years. He remained in Virginia during the civil war. At 68, he was rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Cumberland, Maryland) until 1872. The next four years of his life he spent with his wife and son, R. Francis Colton in Jenkintown Penn. In 1874, starting in January for 11 months he was in charge of Saint Stephen's Church Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. He died of an acute infection of the spinal cord in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania on April 15, 1876. He was a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Copenhagen and the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Literary works The Religious Souvenir 1837 The Christian Hearer 1838 Public Speaking: An Oration, Delivered Before The Burritt Literary Society of Farmers College Ohio 1847 Bibliography References 1800 births 1876 deaths People from Longmeadow, Massachusetts Yale University alumni New York University alumni 19th-century American clergy 19th-century American educators 19th-century American Episcopalians University and college founders