Morris, Edward Dafydd, , New York 1825 1915 Male Clergyman Presbyterian Educator Presbyterian clergyman and educator, was born at Utica, N. Y. His father, Dafydd Edward Morris, was a native of Wales who came to the United States in his youth; his mother, Anne (Lewis), was of Welsh descent.
He attended private schools in Utica and prepared for college at Whitestown Seminary, N. Y. Entering the sophomore class at Yale in 1846, he ranked high in scholarship while earning his living.
He graduated at Yale in 1849, a classmate of Timothy Dwight [q. v. ].
Graduating in 1852 at Auburn Theological Seminary, where he studied theology under Laurens P. Hickok [q. v. ], Morris was ordained, by the Cayuga Presbytery, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Auburn, N. Y.
During the closing years of his professorship he won the gratitude of the trustees by his strenous and successful efforts to assist the Seminary through a period of stress and peril.
He was an earnest upholder of the theological standards of his Church, which he interpreted in a liberal spirit that accorded with his training and the temper of his mind.
He was a vigorous exponent of the "New School" theology.
His courtly bearing, brilliant dark eyes, and ruddy complexion gave him an appearance of vigor and distinction, enhanced in his later years by abundant white hair and beard.
His published works include: Outlines of Theology (1880), Ecclesiology (1885), Scripture Readings (1887), Is there Salvation after Death?
(1887), Thirty Years in Lane (1897), Theology of the Westminster Symbols (1900), The Presbyterian Church, New School (1905).
[Ohio State Journal (Columbus), May 6, 1895, and Nov. 22, 1915; Herald-Dispatch (Utica), Nov. 22, 1915; The Continent (N. Y. ), Aug. 3, 1911, and Dec. 2, 1915; Herald and Presbyter (Cincinnati), Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 1915; Gen. Biog.
Cat.
Auburn Theol.
Sem.
(1918); Obit.
Record Grads.
Yale Univ. , 1916; personal characteristics described in letters from Rev. Dr. Arthur Judson Brown, New York, and others. ]
In 1855 he went to the Second Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Ohio.
His students were impressed with the lucidity, catholic range, and deeply evangelical spirit of his instruction, and appreciated his constant personal interest in them.
The father, a man of strong religious principles, was a shoemaker, later conducting a small grocery business.
Four children were born of the first marriage; two, of the second.
He was twice married: on July 29, 1852, to Frances Elizabeth, daughter of Dan and Fanny (Rowe) Parmelee of Fair Haven, Connecticut, who died in 1866; and on Mar. 26, 1867, to Mary Bryan Treat of Tallmadge, Ohio, who died in 1893.
He was twice married: on July 29, 1852, to Frances Elizabeth, daughter of Dan and Fanny (Rowe) Parmelee of Fair Haven, Connecticut, who died in 1866; and on Mar. 26, 1867, to Mary Bryan Treat of Tallmadge, Ohio, who died in 1893.
