History of Boone County Kentucky United States of America

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Lemuel Moss, educator, was born in Boone county, Ky., Dec. 27, 1829; son of Demas and Esther (Lewis) Moss, grandson of Lemuel Moss, and a descendant of John Moos, of England, an original founder of New Haven, .Conn., 1639. His parents went from New England to Dearborn county, Ind., in 1816; afterward removing to Kentucky, and returning to Indiana in 1833. He began the printer's trade in 1844, in the Lawrenceburg Register office, and worked as a printer for nine years, for the most part in Cincinnati and Louisville. He was married Dec. 24, 1851, to Harriet, daughter of William and Mary Bingham of Cincinnati. In 1853 he decided to enter the Baptist ministry. He was graduated at the University of Rochester, A.B., 1858, and at the Rochester Theological seminary, B.D., 1860; was pastor of the First Baptist church, Worcester, Mass., 1860-64; home secretary of the U.S. Christian commission, 1864-65; professor of systematic theology in Bucknell university, Lewisburg, Pa., 1865-68; edited the National Baptist, Philadelphia, Pa., 1868-72; was professor of New Testament interpretation in Crozer Theological seminary, Upland, Pa., 1872-74; president of Chicago university, 1874-75, and president of the Indiana university, 1875-84. He edited the Ensign, Minneapolis, Minn., 1889-99; was pastor of the Baptist church at Woodbury, N.J., 1894-96, and was editor of The Commonwealth in 1897. He was elected a member of the National Council of Education in 1878, and president of the department of higher education, National Educational association, 1882. He was vice-president of the American Baptist Missionary union, 1883; president of the American Baptist Historical society, 1896-1900, and in 1900 was made vice-president. He became lecturer on Christian sociology at Bucknell university in 1897. He received from the University of Rochester the degree of D.D. in 1868, and LL.D. in 1883. He edited The Baptists and the National Centenary (1876); and is the author of: Annals of the U.S. Christian Commission (1866); What Baptists Stand For (1899); A Day with Paul (1894), and A Question of Attitude (1894).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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