biography
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| lived:
| (1775–1863)
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| biography:
| Presbyterian minister and revivalist, born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He studied at Yale, and was ordained in 1799. He preached at East Hampton, Long Island, NY (1799–1810), then at Litchfield, CT (1810–26), his brand of Calvinism calling for constant church services and strong opposition to drinking. He then worked in Boston, and in 1832 went to Cincinnati as head of the newly founded Lane Theological Seminary, and to serve as pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church. His evangelical zeal and arrogance led to years of strife with more conservative Presbyterians, but he stayed until 1859, when he retired to the Brooklyn home of his son Henry. |
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