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Walter Bidwell was born on June 21, 1798, at Farmington, Connecticut, United States, the son of William Bidwell and his wife, Mary Pelton. The family ancestry had mingled strains of English, Scotch, and French blood.
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Walter Bidwell was born on June 21, 1798, at Farmington, Connecticut, United States, the son of William Bidwell and his wife, Mary Pelton. The family ancestry had mingled strains of English, Scotch, and French blood.
Walter lived the usual life of the son of a Connecticut farmer till he was twenty-one, when he prepared for Yale, entering as a sophomore and graduating in 1827. In 1833 he graduated from the Yale Divinity School.
On September 19, 1833, Bidwell was ordained and installed pastor of the Congregational Church at Medfield, Massachussets, but on account of the failure of his voice he retired from the ministry four years later. Moving to Philadelphia, he became in 1841 editor and proprietor of the National Preacher and Village Pulpit, which he continued for nineteen years, publishing sermons from about 500 preachers of all evangelical denominations. In 1843 he also became editor and proprietor of the New York Evangelist, which he conducted for nearly twelve years. From 1846 to 1849 he was proprietor and editor of the Biblical Repository and Classical Review and also of the Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature. He edited the latter till 1868 and owned it till his death, or for a period of about thirty-five years. In 1860 he became publisher and proprietor of the American Theological Review, whose editor was Prof. Henry B. Smith of Union Theological Seminary. Two years later it passed into other hands and was merged with the Presbyterian Quarterly Review. Between 1848 and 1854 he published a series of seven missionary maps, of which his brother O. B. Bidwell was the maker.
In 1864-1865 Bidwell suffered a serious breakdown due to the mental strain of overwork, and spent two years abroad in the recovery of his health. After this, his sole editorial work was in connection with the Eclectic Magazine till 1868, when he retired from all active duties. He made six extensive tours in foreign countries partly for reasons of health, but mainly in the interests of the Eclectic Magazine. In 1867 he was appointed by Secretary Seward a special commissioner of the United States to various countries of Western Asia, and in this connection he made an extensive tour through Egypt, Greece, and the Levant. After his retirement he made several additional trips abroad, but the home of his latter years was mainly at Oberlin, Ohio, where he found the religious atmosphere congenial. He spent the last year of his life in Chicago, but died at Saratoga Springs, New York. His life was one of great activity and usefulness, and he had a very extensive acquaintance in America and abroad, especially with Protestant ministers of all denominations.
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Bidwell was a member and of the Congregational Church.
Walter Bidwell married Susan M. Duryea of New York.