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Francis Wayland was a Baptist clergyman and the pastor of First Baptist Church, Boston from 1821-1826. In 1825 he participated
in the founding of Newton Theological Institution (became Andover Newton), for the training of pastors for American Baptist
Churches. He was a professor at Union College in the 1826/1827 school year, and the fourth president of Brown University,
from1827-1855.