Education
He graduated in 1827 from Union College.
professor theologian Presbyterian pastor
He graduated in 1827 from Union College.
Erasmus Darwin MacMaster was born on February 4, 1806 in Mercer, Pennsylvania. He presided over the short-lived move of the college to Madison, Indiana where it was briefly renamed Madison University in 1845. Hanover quickly moved back to Hanover, Indiana and MacMaster left to become the third president of Miami University in Ohio.
His Miami presidency lasted from 1845 until 1849 and in 1850 he became a professor of theology at the Theological Seminary in New Albany, Indiana.
He was appointed professor of theology at Theological Seminary of the Northwest (now McCormick Theological Seminary) in Chicago, Illinois in June 1866 and died there in December of that year. Death
He died on December 10, 1866.