History of Lincklaen, (Chenango County) New York United States of America

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Orello Cone, educator, was born in Lincklean, Chenango county, N.Y., Nov. 16, 1835; son of Daniel Newton and Emily (Sadd) Cone; and grandson of Asa Cone. He studied at Cazenovia seminary, became a public school teacher, and instructed himself in the Latin, Greek, German and French languages. In 1857 he became principal of the preparatory department of St. Paul's college, Palmyra, Mo., studied for the Episcopal ministry in 1861, and in 1862 became a Universalist clergyman, settling in Little Falls, N.Y. In 1865 he accepted the chair of Biblical languages and literature in the theological department of St. Lawrence university, Canton, N.Y., and in 1880 was elected president of Buchtel college, Akron, Ohio. In 1892 he became one of the editorial board of the New World, Boston, Mass. He travelled and studied in Europe in 1897, and settled as minister of a Unitarian church in Lawrence, Kan., in 1898. His published works include: Monograph on Salvation (1889); Gospel Criticism and Historical Christianity (1891); The Gospel and Its Earliest Interpretations (1893): Paul: the Man, the Missionary, and the Teacher (1898).

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

History of Lincklaen, (Chenango County) New York

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