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| | Charles Turner Torrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | TORREY, Charles Turner, reformer, born in Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1813; died in Baltimore, Maryland, 9 May, 1846. |
 | | (See TORREY, WILLIAM.) Charles was graduated at, Yale in 1830, studied theology, and occupied Congregational pastorates in Princeton, New Jersey, and Salem, Massachusetts, but soon relinquished his professional duties to devote himself to antislavery labors in Maryland. |
 | | In 1843 he attended a slaveholders' convention in Baltimore, reported its proceedings, and was arrested and put in jail. |
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