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Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or ROSWELL DWIGHT HITCHCOCK (1817-1887), American divine, was born at East Machias, Maine, on the 15th of August 1817, graduated at Amherst College in 1836, and later studied at Andover Theological Seminary, Mass. After a visit to Germany he was a tutor at Amherst in 1839-1842, and was minister of the First (Congregational)Church, Exeter, New Hampshire, in 18 451852. He became professor of natural and revealed religion in Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1852, and in 1855 professor of church history in the Union Theological Seminary in New York, of which he was president in 1880-1887. He died at Somerset, Mass., on the 16th of June 1887.
Among his works are: Life of Edward Robinson (1863); Socialism (1879); Carmina Sanctorum (with Z. Eddy and L. W. Mudge, 1885); and Eternal Atonement (1888).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Roswell Dwight Hitchcock'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/r/roswell-dwight-hitchcock.html. 1910.
