Christian Cyclopedia

(July 18, 1804–April 14, 1868). B. Adams Co. Pennsylvania educ. Dickinson Coll. (Carlisle, Pennsylvania) and Princeton (New Jersey) and Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) seminaries. Pastor Boonsboro, Maryland teacher at Gettysburg Coll. 1831; prof. Gk. Pennsylvania Coll. its 2d pres. 1850–68. In 1844 mem. of com. that formed “Abstract of the Doctrines and Practice of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Maryland,” which omitted or rejected all distinctively Luth. doctrines.