Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . Lucy Anne (Phillips)Cecil. His father comes of the Cecil family ofEngland, some members of which settled nearBaltimore in Maryland and afterwards went toSouthwestern Virginia and Kentucky. He receivedhis early education in private and public schoolsin Mercer County, Kentucky, and graduated fromPrinceton in the Class of 1874, receiving the degreeof Master of Arts in course. Deciding to fithimself for the ministry, h
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . Lucy Anne (Phillips)Cecil. His father comes of the Cecil family ofEngland, some members of which settled nearBaltimore in Maryland and afterwards went toSouthwestern Virginia and Kentucky. He receivedhis early education in private and public schoolsin Mercer County, Kentucky, and graduated fromPrinceton in the Class of 1874, receiving the degreeof Master of Arts in course. Deciding to fithimself for the ministry, he studied in PrincetonTheological Seminary and in Free Church Collegein Edinburgh, Scotland. He also travelled inEurope, Egypt and Palestine in 1878 and became Pastor of a Presbyterian Church atNicholasville, Kentucky in 1879, where he remainedfor six years, accepting a call to INLaysville, Ken-tucky, as Pastor of the Central Church, in 1885. UNIVERSiriES AND THEIR SONS 355 After four years of ministry there he took his presentposition, Pastor of the first Church at Sehiia,Alabama. In 1893 Dr. Cecil received the honor-ary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the South-. RUSSELL CECIL western Presbyterian University at Clarksville,Tennessee, and the same degree was conferredupon him by Princeton in 1895. He is Presidentof the Board of Directors of the Columbia, SouthCarolina, Theological Seminary, having been ap-pointed in 1896. He is also a member of theExecutive Committee of Foreign Missions of theSouthern Presbyterian Church to which he wasappointed by the General Assembly of 1899. OnJanuary 19, 1881, he married Alma Miller of Rich-mond, Kentucky. They have four children : Rus-sell La Fayette, John Howe, Alma Miller andJames McCosh Cecil. CORWIN, Samuel Wickham Princeton 1843, in Middletown, Orange Co., N. Y., 1824; fittedfor College at Hill Top School and Prospect HillSchool, and in Green Brook School at Plainfield,N. J.; graduated, Princeton, 1843 ;
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