Background
Dickinson, youngest son of Azariah and Mary (Eastman) Dickinson, was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, April 14, 1795.
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Dickinson, youngest son of Azariah and Mary (Eastman) Dickinson, was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, April 14, 1795.
He graduated from Yale College in 1817. He spent a year in teaching in Virginia, and in 1818 entered Andover Theological Seminary, where he completed the course in 1821.
He labored successfully for six years in that relation, and then accepted an invitation to the Professorship of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology in Lane Seminary, Cincinnati. After four years of active devotion to the interests of that institution, he accepted an appointment to the corresponding chair in the seminary in Auburn, New York, and held the position eight years. Foreign ten years he served the American and Foreign Christian Union as one of its District Secretaries at New York and Boston, and then removed with his family to Lake Forest, near Chicago, where with them he opened a Young Ladies" Seminary, which was successfully maintained until 1867.
The infirmities of age rendering necessary a retirement from all labor, he removed in 1868 to Brooklyn, New York, to spend his closing years, and died in that city, December
5, 1875. In 1838 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Amherst College. In 1839 he was the moderator of the New School General Assembly.
He published several sermons, and some of these, as well as a volume of Letters to Students, were republished in England. Doctor Dickinson was married, June 4, 1823, to Martha Bush, of Boylston, Massachusetts, who survived him.
Two of the sons graduated at Amherst College, in 1844 and 1848 respectively.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.