Background
He was the son of Review Zebulon Ely, and was born in Lebanon, Connecticut.
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Ezra Ely
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He graduated from Yale University in 1804.
Career
In October 1806, he was settled as pastor of the church in Colchester, Connecticut (Westchester parish). This place he left, having accepted a call to become a City Missionary in New York City. From New York he was called to the pastorate of the Pine Street Church in Philadelphia, where he continued over twenty years.
About the year 1834, he embarked in the enterprise of establishing a College and Theological Seminary in Missouri The financial reverses of 1837 frustrated the undertaking and involved him in great trouble.
He was a rapid thinker, a fluent speaker and a fertile writer Foreign several years he edited gratuitously religious paper called The Philadelphian.
He was the author of Ely"s Journal, otherwise known as " Visits of Mercy," and, of " Conversations on the Science of the Human Mind," (Philosophy 1819) In 1828 he assisted in publishing a " Collateral Bible, or Key to the Holy Scriptures," and subsequently, a memoir of his father, and other works. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Washington College in Tennessee.
He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 17, 1861, aged 75.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.
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