History of Scott, (Cortland County) New York United States of America

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Abram Herbert Lewis, clergyman and author, was born in Scott, N.Y., Nov. 17, 1836; son of Datus Ensign and Tacy (Maxson) Lewis; grandson of Abel and Abigail (Greene) Lewis and of Caleb and Mary (Bliss) Maxson, and a direct descendant of John Lewis, who settled in Westerly, R.I., in 1661. He was a student at Ripen college, and was graduated from Milton college, A.B., 1860, and from Alfred university, A.B., 1863, A.M., 1866. He was married in 1855 to Augusta M., daughter of Thomas Olney and Ann (Tanner) Johnson, of Natick, R.I. He was pastor of Seventh-day Baptist churches in Westerly, R.I., 1864-67, and New York city, 1867-68; professor of church history and homiletics, Alfred university, 1868-94; general agent of the American Sabbath Tract society, 1869-72; pastor of Seventh-day Baptist church, Plainfield, N.J., 1880-96, and in 1896 became corresponding secretary of the American Sabbath Tract society. He took a post graduate course in church history at Union Theological seminary, New York, 1870-71, and received the honorary degree of D.D. from Alfred university in 1881. He edited the Outlook and Sabbath Quarterly, 1882-96, when he took charge of the Sabbath Recorder. He is the author of: Sabbath and Sunday?Argument and History (1870); Biblical Teachings concerning the Sabbath and the Sunday (1884); Critical History of the Sabbath and the Sunday in the Christian Church (1886); Critical History of Sunday Legislation from 321 to 1888 A.D. (1888); Paganism Surviving in Christianity (1892); The Catholicization of Protestantism on the Sabbath Question (1894); Swift Decadence of Sunday: What Next? (1899, 2d ed., 1900); Letters to Young Preachers and Their Hearers (1900), and a large number of tracts upon various phases of the Sabbath question.

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

History of Scott, (Cortland County) New York

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