. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. t of RobertWilliams who came to this country about 1638 andsettled in , Massachusetts. Solomon wasgraduated from Harvard in 1719, receiving hisMasters degree in course, and after a course oftheological study was ordained to the ministry andsettled over the church at Lebanon, Connecticut, in1722. He held this charge until his death, a periodof fifty-four years, almost equalling in length of ser-vice the Pas
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. t of RobertWilliams who came to this country about 1638 andsettled in , Massachusetts. Solomon wasgraduated from Harvard in 1719, receiving hisMasters degree in course, and after a course oftheological study was ordained to the ministry andsettled over the church at Lebanon, Connecticut, in1722. He held this charge until his death, a periodof fifty-four years, almost equalling in length of ser-vice the Pastorate held by his father in Williams held a position of great influenceamong the clergy of New England and took anactive part in the theological controversies of thosedays. He disputed with Andrew Croswell on thenature of justifying faith and with the elder JonathanEdwards on the qualifications for communion in theSacraments. .A large number of his sermons werepublished. In 1773 Yale conferred upon him thedegree of Doctor of Divinity, and in 1749 he waselected a Fellow of the Corporation, holding a seatin that Board for twenty years. He died, February29, 1776. ^. J. the Declaration of Independence, Justice of theSupreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. He re-ceived his preparation for College in the BostonLatin School, which he left in 1849 to enter Har-vard, graduating in 1853. He studied law withRufus Choate and was admitted to the Bar in the Civil War he performed a patriotic and dis-tinguished part. He entered the army in 1861 asa Captain in the Twenty-second MassachusettsVolunteers; in February 1862, he was appointedMajor of the Eastern Bay State regiment by specialorders of the War Department; and in the saineyear he became Colonel of the Second LouisianaVolunteers, a regiment of white troops which heraised in New Orleans. He commanded a brigadein the Siege of Port Hudson in 1863, and in 1864 278 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS on the s
Size: 1436px × 1740px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectharvarduniversity
