DEXTER, HENRY MARTYN American clergyman and author, was born in Plympton (Mass.), on Aug. 13, 1821. A graduate of Yale and Andover theological seminary, he was pastor of Congregational Churches in Manchester (N.H.), and Boston, and edited various magazines, including the Congre gational Quarterly and Congregationalist. He died in New Bed ford (Mass.), on Nov. 13, 1890. He was an authority on the history of Congregationalism and was a lecturer on that subject at the Andover theological seminary in 1877-79. Dexter left his fine library on the Puritans in America to Yale university. Among his works are : As to Roger Williams and His "Banish ment" from the Massachusetts Colony (1876); The Congrega tionalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as Seen in Its Litera ture (188o) ; his most important work, Common Sense as to Woman Suffrage (1885); and many reprints of colonial pam phlets. His The England and Holland of the Pilgrims (19o5) was completed by his son, Morton Dexter.