Background
Bushnell, Horace was born on April 14, 1802 in Bantam, Connecticut, United States. Son of Ensign and Dotha (Bishop) B. graduated from Yale, 1827, attended Yale Divinity School, 1832-1833, honorary Doctor of Laws, 1871.
Bushnell, Horace was born on April 14, 1802 in Bantam, Connecticut, United States. Son of Ensign and Dotha (Bishop) B. graduated from Yale, 1827, attended Yale Divinity School, 1832-1833, honorary Doctor of Laws, 1871.
Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Wesleyan University, 1842, Harvard, 1852.
Commerce, New York City, 1827-1828. Tutor Yale, 1829-1831. Ordained to ministry Congregational Church, 1833.
Pastor North Church, Hartford, Connecticut, 1833-1859. Travelled in Europe, 1845-1846. Contended that human language was incapable of expressing nature of God in his book God in Christ, 1849, tried for heresy for this belief by General Association.
Married Mary Apthorp, September 13, 1833.