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 . palof the seminary. He was pas-tor at Burlington, N. J., from1797 to 1805, when he accept-ed a call to the First Baptistchurch in Philadelphia, wherehe remained until 1811, whenhe
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 . palof the seminary. He was pas-tor at Burlington, N. J., from1797 to 1805, when he accept-ed a call to the First Baptistchurch in Philadelphia, wherehe remained until 1811, whenhe joined with many membersof the First church in f oi-mingthe Sansom street church, ofwhich he was pastor until1823, when he resigned to en-ter upon the duties of presi-dent, to which office he hadbeen elected in 1821. The in-stitution, whose affairs he wascalled upon to administer,owes its origin to the zeal of aChristian denomination for aneducated ministry. In 1817Eev. Luther Rice, a returned missionaiyfrom India,conceived the idea of founding a college in Wash-ington for the education of ministers in the specialservice of the Baptist denomination. Around thisschool of theology he projected schools oi*t:lassicalculture, of science and of philosophy, which shouldbe entirely imsectarian in their disciplines and na-tional in their aims. In 1819 Rev. Luther Rice, incompany with Rev. Obadiah B. Brown, Rev. Spen-. cer H. Cone and Enoch Reynolds, formed an association for the purpose of buying land adjoining thecity of Washington and comprising forty-six and ahalf acres, to be held for the use of an educationalinstitution under the direction of the general conven-tion. They paid $7,000 for the land, and amongthe contributors were John Quincy Adams, WilliamH. Crawford, and John C. Calhoun (members ofPresident Monroes cabinet), together with thirty-two members of congress, and many leading citizensof Washington. In February, 1821, a charter wasprocured from congress erecting The Colum
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