The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . Hubert, editor and clergy-man, was born at Stockbridge, Madison county,N. Y., Jan. 3, 1885, the son of a prosperous farmerand descendant of a prominentNew England family. He wasedu
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . Hubert, editor and clergy-man, was born at Stockbridge, Madison county,N. Y., Jan. 3, 1885, the son of a prosperous farmerand descendant of a prominentNew England family. He waseducated at Cazenovia seminaryin his native county, and at Obei-lin college. He entered the min-istry of the Methodist Episcopalchurch in 1863, in connectionwith the Oneida conference. Af-ter twelve years in the pastorate,seiving prominent churches incentral New York, Mr. Warrenwas appointed assistant editor ofthe Northern Christian Advo-cate, an official Methodist jour-nal piiblished in Syracuse, ,and on the death of the editor-in-chief, in May, 1875, he wasappointed acting editor. InMay, 1876, he was elected tothe editorship of the Advo-cate by the general conference,which position he continued to hold by subsequentre-elections until June 1, 1893. His retirement wasat his own request, and for the purpose of mde-pendent literary work. During his eighteen yearsof editorial service the paper under his charge. 0?tem^i^i^*— was distinguished for vigor of thought, literary ex-cellence and breadth of culture, and occupied anhonorable and influential position in religious jour-nalism. The Western Christian Advocate said,on his retirement, that Dr. O. H. Warren carrieswith him the respect and love of his readers. Hiseditorials were literary classics. Force was neversacrificed for beauty; under his pen the twain be-came one. The Christian Advocate on thesame occasion spoke of him as A man of unusualability, of unmistakable courage, of remarkable in-dustry and of diversified accompl
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