Background
He became a clerk in the employ of his father, the postmaster of Hagerstown, but spent his leisure in study, and graduated from Dickinson College in 1827, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1829.
clergyman director pastor president
He became a clerk in the employ of his father, the postmaster of Hagerstown, but spent his leisure in study, and graduated from Dickinson College in 1827, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1829.
Dickinson College; Princeton Theological Seminary.
He was president of the Princeton Theological Seminary 1865-1867. In 1842 he became a director of Princeton Theological Seminary, and its president in 1865, which offices he held till his death. Dickinson gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1841.
He held many offices in the Old-School branch of his church, and was a member of the board of foreign missions from its organization, and several years its president