Background
William Cassady Cattell was born on August 30, 1827 in Salem, New Jersey, United States. He was the son of Thomas W. Cattell, descended from an old family of New Jersey Quakers, and Keziah (Gilmore) Cattell.
(Excerpt from Memoir of William C. Cattell, D.D., LL. D: 1...)
Excerpt from Memoir of William C. Cattell, D.D., LL. D: 1827-1898 In Princeton the life-work of Dr. Cattell as an educator began in 1853 by acceptance of the post of associate principal of the Edgehill Preparatory School Two years later, in 185 5, he was called to the professorship of ancient languages in Lafayette College, and, removing to Easton, Pennsylvania, be rendered his first service in the institution destined to be come his chief monument. For five years he filled this posi tion with eminent success, and then there occurred an inter regnum, which proved an essential part Of his providential preparation for the later and larger work which he was to do for Lafayette. He received an urgent call to become the first pastor Of the Pine Street Church, in Harrisburg, recently colonized from the Market Square Church. Although his professorship was most congenial and he had already formed strong attachment to his fellows Of the faculty, as well as to the society Of Easton, he felt he was summoned of God to resign his professorship for the pastorate. He was led, by a way he knew not of, to lay down his work for the College, only that he might take it up again when more broadly furnished for it and when it was in greater need of his services. Harrisburg was soon thereafter one of the throbbing cen tres of the excitement attending the outset Of the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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William Cassady Cattell was born on August 30, 1827 in Salem, New Jersey, United States. He was the son of Thomas W. Cattell, descended from an old family of New Jersey Quakers, and Keziah (Gilmore) Cattell.
He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1848 and from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1852, and was ordained in 1856.
He began his career as an educator in 1853, as associate principal of the Edgehill Preparatory School. In 1855 he became professor of Latin in Lafayette College, Easton. In 1860 he accepted the pastorate of the Pine Street Presbyterian Church at Harrisburg, where he was soon active in war work in the camps and hospitals. In 1861 he had become a trustee of Lafayette College, which, embarrassed financially and suffering from an exodus of students to join the army, was in a condition such that the trustees met to consider a suspension of operations. Instead, they elected Cattell to the presidency, which he held from 1863 to 1883. He began with thirty-nine students, a deficit, and an income insufficient to pay the $4, 900 per year due the nine faculty members. A dozen years later the college, with an enrolment above 300 and proportionate increases in faculty, equipment, and endowment, was a first-class institution. Besides unusual gifts as a scholar, teacher, and administrator Cattell had a personal charm that endeared him to both faculty and students. In 1883 he was forced to resign because of ill health. While recuperating in Europe he was elected corresponding secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Ministerial Relief, in which capacity he devoted himself from 1884 to 1886 to the care of retired ministers and their dependents. From 1890 to his death he was president of the Presbyterian Historical Society. He was several times a delegate of the Presbyterian General Assembly to churches in Scotland, Bohemia, and Moravia, and he is said to have been the founder of the Sunday-school system of the Bohemian Reformed Churches. On several of these occasions he acted as a special United States commissioner of education. He contributed an article on the "Tunkers" to the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, and collected materials for a life of Lafayette and an edition of Lactantius.
(Excerpt from Memoir of William C. Cattell, D.D., LL. D: 1...)
On August 4, 1859, he was married to Elizabeth McKeen.
