An Eulogy on Lafayette, Delivered in Bloomington, Indiana, on the Ninth of May, 1835, at the Request of the Citizens and Students
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Sectarianism Is Heresy: In Three Parts in Which Are Shewn Its Nature, Evils and Remedy
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Andrew Wylie was an American clergyman, academic and theologian.
Background
Andrew Wylie was born on April 12, 1789, at Washington County, Pennsylvania, the son of Adam Wylie, a Presbyterian immigrant of Scottish descent from County Antrim, Ireland and farmer in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth Vaneman.
Education
Andrew was educated at home and in local schools until the age of fifteen, when he entered Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, supporting himself by tutoring and odd jobs until his graduation, with first honors, in 1810.
Career
The next year, in 1811, Wylie was elected unanimously to serve as president of Jefferson College. He was licensed to preach on October 12, 1812, and in 1813 was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. While president of Jefferson College, Wylie led a controversial effort to merge with nearby Washington College, however that effort failed.
Soon after his resignation, April 1816, he was named president of Washington College. He resigned, December 9, 1828, to become the first president of Indiana College, which had been established by act of legislature, January 24, 1828, as successor to the Indiana Seminary at Bloomington. When Wylie assumed office the faculty consisted of himself (as professor of moral and mental philosophy, political economy, and polite literature), two instructors, and sixty students. In 1838 the college became Indiana University and in 1842 a school of law was opened. Wylie's work as an educator was distinguished by the introduction of a system of study called "specialization by rotation, " in which the student devoted himself to one subject at a time, mastering it before going to the next. His administration was marked by a slow but steady growth.
In Bloomington, Wylie had conflicts with Presbyterians over Calvinist theology. In 1841, he left the Presbyterian Church to become a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and became an ordained priest in May 1842.
Wylie was also the author of English Grammar (1822), The Uses of History (1831), Eulogy of General Lafayette (1834), Latin and Roman Classics (1838), and Sectarianism Is Heresy (1840).
Andrew Wylie died on November 11, 1851, at Bloomington, Pennsylvania, of pneumonia which he developed after accidentally cutting his leg while chopping wood.
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Membership
In 1815, Andrew Wylie became a member of the American Antiquarian Society. He was one of the original members of the Presbytery of Washington, Pennsylvania), which was founded on October 19, 1819.
In addition, he is a charter member of the Monroe County Hall of Fame.
Personality
Andrew Wylie was described as "tolerant and patient to a fault of everything but meanness and duplicity, " for the most part affable, but occasionally brusque in manner.
Connections
In May 1813, Andrew Wylie married Margaret Ritchie, and together they had twelve children.