Benjamin Fisk Barrett, an American clergyman and author, born at Dresden, Maine, June 24, 1808. He graduated at Bowdoin college in 1832, and at the divinity school in Cambridge in 1838. While there he became a convert to the doctrines taught by Swedenborg. He was pastor of the first New Church society in New York from 1840 to 1848, and of that in Cincinnati from 1848 to 1850. In 1850 he was obliged to leave the pulpit on account of his health, and went to Chicago, where he engaged in a mechanical business by which in four years he restored his health, and accu-mulated a fortune. For several years subsequently he was settled over the first New Church society in Philadelphia. His principal works are: "A Life of Swedenborg," "Lectures on the New Dispensation," "Letters on the Divine Trinity," "The Golden Reed," "Catholicity of the New Church," "The Visible Church," "Beauty for Ashes," and "A New View of Hell." He has also published various theological pamphlets and articles in religious magazines.