In the Ojibway Country - A Story of Early Missions on the Minnesota Frontier #255474

Mr. Ayer was born at old Stockbridge, Mass, in 1803; and removed with his father's family, the Rev. Oliver Ayer, to central New York, when only three years of age. He intended to study for the ministry, but owing to ill health was compelled to abandon the idea for a time; and afterwards engaged in secular business in Utica. \vhile thus employed he received an appointment from the American Board to teach their Mission school at Mackinac, where he was shortly after married to one of the teachers of the school, Miss Elizabeth Taylor.