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Up] [Dromo's Den] Roswell Hitchcock Biography HITCHCOCK,
Roswell Dwight (1817-87). An American clergyman and educator, born in East
Machias, Me. He graduated at Amherst College in 1836 and at Andover Theological
Seminary in 1838. He preached a year in Waterville , Me., and in 1845 was
installed over the First Congregational Church in Exeter, N. H. He resigned in
1852 to accept the professorship of revealed religion at Bowdoin College. Three
years later he resigned at Bowdoin to become professor of Church history at
Union Theological Seminary, of which he was elected president in 1880. He was on
the editorial staff of the American Theological Review for seven years, traveled in Egypt and
Palestine, and was elected president of the Palestine Exploration Society in
1871 and vice president of the American Geological Society in 1880. He
published: The Life, Character, and
Writings of Eduard Robinson (1863); Complete
Analysis of the Holy Bible (1869); Socialism
(1879); Carmina Sanctorum, with Dr.
Zachary Eddy and Rev. Lewis W. Mudge (1885). A collection of sermons, Eternal
Atonement, was published posthumously (1888). The New International
Encyclopaedia, Vol. XI
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920)
336-337.
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