Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . -in-law, who was distinguishedas a general in the American army during theRevolutionary war. The descendants of Lady Er-skine, and therefore of a Revolutionary general,include the present Duke of Portland and the sonof Lord Archibald Campbell, prospective Duke ofArgyll, his eldest brother being childless. ERSKINE, Ebenezer, clergyman, b. in RidleyPark, Pa., 31 Jan., 1821. He was graduated atJefferson college in 1843, and at Princeton theologi-cal seminary in 1848. In 1849 he was called to thepastorate of Penn church in Philadelphia, and wasordained
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . -in-law, who was distinguishedas a general in the American army during theRevolutionary war. The descendants of Lady Er-skine, and therefore of a Revolutionary general,include the present Duke of Portland and the sonof Lord Archibald Campbell, prospective Duke ofArgyll, his eldest brother being childless. ERSKINE, Ebenezer, clergyman, b. in RidleyPark, Pa., 31 Jan., 1821. He was graduated atJefferson college in 1843, and at Princeton theologi-cal seminary in 1848. In 1849 he was called to thepastorate of Penn church in Philadelphia, and wasordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia inSeptember of that year. He held this charge till1851, and was then for six years pastor of thechurch in Columbia, Pa. He was pastor in Star-ling, 111., from 1858 till 1864, and from 1865 till1869 edited the Northwestern Presbyterian inChicago. In 1870 he was called to the church inNewville, Pa. He was moderator of the synod ofllarrisburg, and in 1878 became a director of thePrinceton theological c/-7 ^^*~ ERSKINE ESCALERA 367 ERSKINE, Mason, clergyman, b. in New Yorkcity, 10 April, 1805; d. there, 14 May, 1851. Hewas graduated at Dickinson in *1823, while hisfather, Rev. John. M. Erskine, was president of that institution, and studied theology in Baltimore, liewas licensed to preach in 1820 by the 2d Presbyteryof New York, and in May, 1827, was installed pas-tor of the Presbyterian church in Schenectady, liewas then called to the pastorate of Jilcecker streetPresbyterian church in New York, and was installedon 10 Sept., 1830. In February, 1880, he becameprofessor of ecclesiastical history in Union theologi-cal seminary, New York, and held that chair till1842. He published several sermons, and after hisdeath a collection of them appeared under the title• A Pastors Legacy, with a biographical memoirby Rev. William Adams (New York, 1853). ERSKINE, Robert, scientist, b. in Scotland, 7Sept., 1735; d. in Ringwood, N. J., 2 Oct., 1780
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