History of Bar Harbor, (Hancock County) Maine United States of America

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Austin Phelps, clergyman, was born in West Brookfield, Mass., Jan. 7, 1820; son of Eliakim and Sarah (Adams) Phelps; grandson of Eliakim and Abigail (Combes) Phelps, and a descendant of William Phelps, who came from Tewksbury, England, to America in the ship Mary and John in 1630, settled first at Hull and then in Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn., in 1635. He attended Hobart college, 1833-34; Amherst college in 1835; was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1837, A.M., 1840; was resident licentiate at the Andover Theological seminary, 1838-42; was licensed to preach in 1840, and was pastor of the Pine St. Congregational church, Boston, Mass., 1842-48. He was professor homiletics and sacred rhetoric in Andover Theological seminary, 1848-79, professor emeritus, 1879-90, and president of the seminary, 1869-79. He served as chaplain of both houses of the Massachusetts legislature and preached the "election sermon" in 1861. He was married in September, 1842, to Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Moses Stuart of Andover; secondly in April, 1855, to Mary, her sister, and thirdly in June, 1858, to Mary A., daughter of Samuel Johnson of Boston, Mass. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Amherst in 1856. He edited Hymns and Choirs with Prof. Edwards A. Park and Rev. David Furber (1859); Sabbath Hymn-Book with Prof. Park and Dr. Lowell Mason (1859), and is the author of: The Still Hour (1858), which had a large circulation in America and abroad; The New Birth (1867); The Solitude of Chest (1868); Sabbath Hours (1870); Studies of the Old Testament (1878); Theory and Practice of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics (1882); My Portfolio (1882); English Style in Public Discourse (1883); My Studies and other Essays (1886); My Note-Book; Fragmentary Studies in Theology and Subjects Adjacent Thereto (1889); besides addresses and contributions to the Congregationalist and other periodicals. See "Memoir" by Mrs. E.S.P. Ward (189l). He died at Bar Harbor, Maine, Oct. 13, 1890.

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

History of Bar Harbor, (Hancock County) Maine

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