Ezra Stiles Gannett, an American clergyman, born in Cambridge, Mass., May 4, 1801, died from a railroad accident at Revere, Mass., Aug. 26,1871. He studied at Phillips academy, Andover, entered Harvard college in 1816, and graduated in. 1820; studied the three following years in the divinity school at Cambridge; received ordination as colleague withWilliam Ellery Channing, June 30, 1824, in the Federal street church, Boston; and upon Dr. Channing's death in 1842 he became sole pastor. The congregation subsequently removed to Arlington street, and Dr. Gannett continued to be its pastor until his death, a period of 47 years, with only an intermission of two years, during which he resided in Europe on account of his health. He published many occasional sermons and addresses, and from 1844 to 1849 was one of the editors of The Christian Examiner."