. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. ersity, 1867; Cambridge (Mass.) Episcopal Theo-logical School, 1872 ; Assistant Rector Grace Church,Lawrence, Mass., one year; Prof, of Ethics and Apolo-getics, Seabury Divinity School, Fairbault, Minn.,1882-92; Prof, of Philosophy, Columbian University,Washington, D. C, since 1892, and Assistant Ministerat Church of the Epiphany in that city. JAiNHiS MACBRIDE STERRETT, Clergymanand Educator, was born in Howard, P
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. ersity, 1867; Cambridge (Mass.) Episcopal Theo-logical School, 1872 ; Assistant Rector Grace Church,Lawrence, Mass., one year; Prof, of Ethics and Apolo-getics, Seabury Divinity School, Fairbault, Minn.,1882-92; Prof, of Philosophy, Columbian University,Washington, D. C, since 1892, and Assistant Ministerat Church of the Epiphany in that city. JAiNHiS MACBRIDE STERRETT, Clergymanand Educator, was born in Howard, Pennsyl-vania, January 13, T847, son of Robert and SarahElizabeth (Macbride) Sterrett. His paternal great-grandparents were Robert and Rosanna (Green)Sterrett, and his grandparents were James and Jane(Glass) Sterrett. His great-grandmother was adaughter of Timothy Green, a member of the Com-mittee of Safety in i 774, who served as an officer ofthe Flying Camp and as Colonel of a battalion inthe Revolutionary War. On the maternal side heis a great-grandson of James and Sarah (Douglas).Macbride, and a grandson of Robert Douglas andJane (Bovard) Macbride, the latter a daughter of. 1. STERREIT James and Hannah (Beatty) Bovard. Having pre-pared for College under the direction of his uncle,the Rev. James B. IMacbride, he entered the Roch-ester (New York) LUiiversity and took his Bache- 64 UNIVERSiriES AND THEIR SONS lors degree in 1867. From 186S to 1870 he wasa divinity student at Harvard, which made him aMaster of Arts in the latter year, and he continuedhis studies at the Cambridge (Massachusetts) Epis-copal Theological School, taking the degree ofBachelor of Divinity in 1872. Assigned to the As-sistant Rectorship of Grace Church, Lawrence,Massachusetts, he remained there a year, at the ex-piration of which time he was appointed Rector ofSt. Johns Church, VVellsville, New York, havingcharge of that parish for three years, and from 1879to 1882 he was Rector of St. James C
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