History of Hillsdale, (Hillsdale County) Michigan United States of America

John Jay Butler, educator, was born at Berwick, Me., April 9, 1814. He was graduated at Bowdoin college in 1837, and at Andover theological seminary in 1844, when he was elected professor of systematic theology in Whitestown (N. Y.) seminary. He was ordained a minister in the Free Baptist church, Jan. 28, 1846. From 1854 to l870 he was professor of theology in the New Hampton (N. H.) theological school; held the same chair in the theological department of Bates college, Maine, from 1870 to 1873, and was professor of sacred literature at Hillsdale college, Michigan, from 1873 to 1883. Under his forty years of preaching, about five hundred students entered the ministry. In 1834 he assumed partial editorial direction of the Morning Star, the Free Baptist denominational organ. He published: Natural and Revealed Theology (1861); Commentary on the Gospels (1870), and Commentary on the Acts, Romans, and First and Second Corinthians (1871). He received the degree of A.M. from Hamilton college in 1849, and D.D. from Bowdoin college in 1860. He died at Hillsdale, Mich., June 16, 1891.

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

Henry Churchill King, educator, was born at Hillsdale, Mich., Sept. 18, 1858; son of Henry Jarvis and Sarah Marsh (Lee) King; grandson of Leonard Jarvis and Betsey (Hanchett) King, of Suffield, Conn., and of Joshua Sumner and Eliza F. (Woodward) Lee, and a descendant of James King, who came from Ipswich, England, in 1684, and of John Lee, of Farmington, Conn. He was graduated from Oberlin college in 1879; tutored in Latin there, 1879-81; in mathematics, 1881-82, and was graduated from Oberlin Theological seminary in 1882. He was married, July 7, 1882, to Julia M., daughter of James H. Coates. He took a post-graduate course at Harvard, 1882-84, receiving the degree of A.M. in 1883. He was associate professor of mathematics at Oberlin college, 1884-90; associate professor of philosophy, 1890-91; was professor of philosophy at Oberlin college, 1891-97; studied at the University of Berlin, 1898-94, and in 1897 was made professor of theology and philosophy at Oberlin. He was a member of the committee of ten of the National Educational association, reporting on secondary school studies in 1898. In 1900 he declined the presidency of Iowa college. He received the degree of D.D. from Oberlin in 1897. He is the author of: Outline of Erdmann's History of Philosophy (1892); Outline of the Microcosmus of Hermann Lotze (1895), and various pamphlets on philosophy.

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

Conway Macmillan, botanist, was born in Hillsdale, Mich., Aug. 26, 1867; son of George and Josephine (Young) MacMillan, and grandson of Robert and Mary (Foster) MacMillan and of Nelson and Achsah (Kingsley) Young. His ancestors were Scotch and belonged to the clan MacMillan. He was graduated from the University of Nebraska, A.B., 1885, A.M., 1886, and took post-graduate courses at Johns Hopkins and Harvard. He was instructor in botany at the University of Minnesota, 1888-91; assistant professor, 1891-92; professor, 1892, and was appointed state botanist in 1893. He was elected a member of the American Botanical society; the Soci?t? Botanique de France; the Society for Plant Morphology; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and several other learned societies. He was married Aug. 6, 1891, to Maud Sanborn. He is the author of: Metaspermoe of the Minnesota Valley (1892); Vegetation Alongshore at Lake of the Woods (1897); and Minnesota Plant Life (1899).

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

History of Hillsdale, (Hillsdale County) Michigan

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