Background
He was the son of Review Henry A. Rowland of Windsor, Connecticut, and was born in that town September 18, 1804.
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Henry Rowland
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He graduated from Yale University in 1823.
Career
After the completion of a course of theological studies at Andover Theological Seminary in 1827 he was ordained to the ministry, and spent a year at the South as an agent of the American Bible Society. From New York he was called to Honesdale, Pennsylvania, where he labored as Pastor ten years. Six months previous to this event, his health gave way, and while travelling for its restoration he died at Boston.
He was a frequent contributor to the religious periodicals, and was the author of several valued works, entitled "The Common Maxims of Infidelity," "The Path of Life," "The Way of Peace," and "Light in a Dark Alley."
He died in Boston, Massachusetts, September 4, 1859, aged 55.
He was the father of physicist Henry Augustus Rowland. This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.
