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MacLaren, John Finley, D.D.

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a Presbyterian minister, was born at Manlius, Onondaga County, N.Y., February 7, 1803. He graduated from Union College in 1825; studied three winters (1825-28) in Princeton Theological Seminary, was licensed in 1828, and ordained pastor of the Church at Geneva in 1830. He edited the Christian Magazine at that place, afterwards settled at Hagerstown, Md. (1845), and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1846). He was president for a time (1855-58) of the Western University of Pennsylvania. He died at Princeton, March 14, 1883. See Necrol. Report of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1883, page 18.