Sylvester Larned, an American clergyman, born in Pittsfield, Mass., Aug. 31, 1796, died in New Orleans, Aug. 31, 1820. He received his collegiate education at Middlebury, Vt., studied theology at Princeton, N. J., and was ordained in July, 1817. His earliest efforts showed rare gifts of eloquence. In the autumn and winter following his ordination he proceeded to New Orleans by the way of Detroit, Louisville, and the Mississippi river, preaching whenever opportunity offered during the three months occupied in the journey. At New Orleans his eloquence made a profound impression. A church was soon organized, and a congregation collected, over which he was settled as pastor, and a large church edifice erected. In the summer of 1820 the yellow fever broke out with unusual violence, and he was urgently entreated to seek safety in flight; but he refused to desert the post of duty, and fell a sacrifice to his fidelity. A memoir of his life, with a collection of his sermons, was published in 1844 by the Rev. R. R. Gurley.