Ichabod Smith Spencer, an American clergyman, born at Rupert, Vt., Feb. 23, 1708, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 23, 1854. He graduated at Union college in 1822, and was principal of the grammar school in Schenectady till 1825, and afterward till 1828 of an academy in Canandaigua, N. Y. He was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Geneva in 1826, and in 1828 was .settled as colleague pastor of the Congregational church in Northampton, Mass. From 1832 till his death he was pastor of the second Presbyterian church in Brooklyn; and from 1836 to 1840 extraordinary professor of Biblical history in Union theological seminary, New York, of which he was one of the founders. His best known publication is his " Pastor's Sketches " (two series, New York, 1850-53), which has passed through many editions, and been translated into French. Since his death there have been published from his manuscripts " Sermons," with a memoir by J. M. Sherwood (2 vols., New York, 1855); " Sacramental Discourses " (1861); and "Evidences of Divine Revelation" (Boston, 1865).