Background
Cowles, son of Samuel and Olive (Phelps) Cowles, was born in Norfolk, Connecticut, April 24, 1803.
editor professor of Latin theological scholar
Cowles, son of Samuel and Olive (Phelps) Cowles, was born in Norfolk, Connecticut, April 24, 1803.
He graduated from Yale College in 1826.
After two years of study in the Yale Divinity School, he was ordained, with a view to home-missionary work, at Hartford, Connecticut, July 1, 1828. In 1838 he was transferred to the chair of Ecclesiastical History, and in 1840 to that of Hebrew, in the Theological Department, in which he continued until 1848, at that time he became the editor of the Oberlin Evangelist, which he conducted until 1863. Foreign the rest of his life he remained in Oberlin, engaged in literary labor.
During the fourteen years from 1867 he published sixteen volumes of Commentaries, covering the whole Scriptures, and devoted the profits arising from them to the missionary cause.
He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Hillsdale College, Michigan, in 1863. This article incorporates public domain material from the 1882 Yale Obituary Record.
