Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . arly Settlements on the Delaware,from its Discovery to the Colonization under Will-iam Penn (Wilmington, 1846). FERRIS, Isaac, clergvman, b. in New Yorkcity, 9 Oct., 1798 ; d. in Roselle, N. J., 16 June,187-3. He entered Columbia when but twelveyears of age, joined the military company raisedamong the students in the war of 1812, and did dutyin the forts around New York harbor. His collegecourse was delayed one year by this, and he wasgraduated in 1816 with the highest honors of hisclass. He taught in the Albany academy one year,and then studied th
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . arly Settlements on the Delaware,from its Discovery to the Colonization under Will-iam Penn (Wilmington, 1846). FERRIS, Isaac, clergvman, b. in New Yorkcity, 9 Oct., 1798 ; d. in Roselle, N. J., 16 June,187-3. He entered Columbia when but twelveyears of age, joined the military company raisedamong the students in the war of 1812, and did dutyin the forts around New York harbor. His collegecourse was delayed one year by this, and he wasgraduated in 1816 with the highest honors of hisclass. He taught in the Albany academy one year,and then studied theology under Dr. James , and in Rutgers seminary, was licensed topreach in 1820, and became pastor of the ReformedDutch church in New Brunswick, N. J., in was afterward settled in Albany in at the Market street church, New York, in1836-53. He went to Holland as commissioneron behalf of American missionaries in the DutchEast Indies in 1842. He was long connected withthe Sunday-school union, was president of the city. organization from 1837 till 1873, was the originatorof the Rutgers female institute, and for a longperiod its principal and the president of its boardof trustees for eighteen years, and was subsequent-ly connected with the Ferris institute. In 1852 heaccepted the chancellorship of the University ofNew York, at that time under serious embarrass-ment from heavydebts. He collect-ed about $74,000,outside of the rent-als and other re-ceipts of the uni-versity, and thusrelieved it from itsfinancial embar-rassments, and ma-terially raised thestandard of schol-arship. He filledthe chair of moralscience and Chris-tian evidence dur-ing his whole con-nection with theuniversity, and wasalso acting profes-sor of constitutional and international law in1855-69. He retired from the chancellorship in1870, but was immediately chosen chancellor emeri-tus. He removed a year later to Roselle, N. J., wherehe resided until his death. The degree of D. D. wasconf
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