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Nathan Beman was born on November 26, 1785, at New Lebanon, New York, the son of Samuel and Silence (Douglass) Beman, of German and Scotch ancestry, from whom he acquired a taste for learning and an interest in theology.
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Nathan Beman was born on November 26, 1785, at New Lebanon, New York, the son of Samuel and Silence (Douglass) Beman, of German and Scotch ancestry, from whom he acquired a taste for learning and an interest in theology.
Matriculating at Williams College in 1803, Nathan withdrew at the end of the second term and entered Middlebury College a year later. During the interim he taught at Fairhaven, Vermont. He graduated in 1807.
Upon graduation Beman became preceptor at Lincoln Academy, Newcastle, Maine. In 1809 he accepted a tutorship at Middlebury. He was pastor of the First PresbyterianChurch, Portland, Maine, during 1810-1812. He then established a school at Mount Zion, Georgia, where, with the exception of a year (1818) which he spent as president of Franklin College, he remained until he was called to Troy, New York, in 1823, as minister of the First Presbyterian Church. There he became associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1842 he was elected vice-president and, in 1845, president, a position which he held until 1865. Although he was professor of philosophy until his retirement, and although he served as director during 1859-1860, succeeding Benjamin Franklin Greene, he does not appear to have aided him in the reorganization linked with his name. In the city, however, he was a power during the forty years of his ministry.
Beman’s first independent publication, reprinted in England, consisted of Four Sermons on the Doctrine of the Atonement (1825). Although he published other addresses, his influence was due primarily to his impressiveness in the pulpit. Reserved and even arrogant, he nevertheless held his congregations by an eloquence wrought of emotion as well as intellect. Many of his discourses - especially his Thanksgiving orations - were pugnaciously controversial. He assailed relentlessly the doctrine of the apostolic succession maintained by the Protestant Episcopal Church. Even more biting were his attacks on the claims of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, which he challenged in his Letters to Rev. John Hughes (1851).
Beman’s chief battlefield, however, was the Presbyterian Church. In 1826 he initiated a series of revivals which aroused the antagonism of conservative clergymen. Although he was rebuked by a convention summoned in the same year, he was chosen moderator of the General Assembly in 1831. By 1837, however, he had become head of the New School movement; and, as such, he was largely responsible for the disruption of 1838. Without slighting his parochial duties, he acquired a reputation as a publicist that was more than local. In his advocacy of abolition, especially, he incurred the enmity which is the lot of every reformer.
Nathan Beman was a prominent Presbyterian clergyman who served as president of Franklin College in Athens, Georgia (1818) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1845 – 1865). Beman also established a school at Mount Zion, Georgia. Beman was author of Four Sermons on the Doctrine of the Atonement (1825), Letters to Rev. John Hughes (1851), etc.
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Nathan Beman was a member of the Presbyterian Church.
