Background
Halsey, Leroy Jones was born on January 28, 1812 in Goochland County, Virginia, United States. Son of John and Lucy (Teller) Halsey.
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Leroy Jones Halsey
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Education
Graduated from the University Nashville (Tennessee), 1834, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1839. Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Hanover College, 1851. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Southwestern University of Tennessee, 1880.
Career
Church; pastor church, Dallas County, Kentucky, 1840-1843, Jackson, Missouri, 1843-1848, Louisville, Kentucky, 1848-1859. Professor pastoral theology, church government and homiletics at Presbyterian theological seminary, Chicago, 1859-1880. Associate editor Interior, 1880-1885.
Author: Literary Attractions of the Bible, 1858.
The Beauty of Immanuel, 1861. Life Pictures from the Bible, 1861.
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Married Caroline Augusta Anderson, at least 1 child.
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June 18, 1896 (aged 84)