History of Ticonderoga, (Essex County) New York United States of America

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Joseph Cook, lecturer, was born at Ticonderoga, N.Y., Jan. 26, 1838; son of William Henry and Merett (Lamb) Cook; grandson of Warner Cook of New Milford, Conn., and a descendant of Francis Cook, one of the pilgrim fathers of Plymouth, Mass. He was prepared for college at Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., and after a partial course at Yale he entered Harvard, where he was graduated in 1865. He was graduated at Andover theological seminary, in 1868, preaching in various towns, principally at Lynn, Mass., from 1868 to 1871. The next two years were divided between studies at Halle, Leipzig, Berlin and Heidelberg, and travels in Southern Europe and in Egypt and Palestine. In 1873 he returned to the United States. He began a series of Monday noon lectures in Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass., in 1875, and continued them, with large audiences, for twenty years. In 1879 he added Thursday evening lectures in New York. The Boston lectures were accompanied by "Preludes on Current Reform." In 1880-82 he went around the world and delivered lectures in all the chief cities of the British Isles, India, Japan and Australia. In January, 1888, he established Our Day, a monthly reform magazine. He received the degree of LL. D. from Howard university, Washington, D. C. Besides many collections of lectures published in America and republished in England, his writings include: Biology (1877); Transcendentalism (1877); Orthodoxy (1877); Conscience (1878); Heredity (1878); Marriage (1878); Labor (1879); Socialism (1880); Occident (1884); Orient (1886); Religious Perils (1888). He died at Ticonderoga, N.Y., June 24, 1901.

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

Adin Ariel Kendrick, educator, was born in Ticonderoga, N.Y., Jan. 7, 1836; son of Dr. Albert Kendrick (M.D., Middlebury, 1833), and grandson of Dr. Adin Kendrick of Poultney, Vt. He was prepared for college at Granville academy, N.Y., attended Middlebury college, Vt., studied law and was admitted to the bar, practising in Jonesville, Wis., and St. Louis, Mo. Deciding to enter the ministry he was graduated at the Rochester Theological seminary in 1861, and served the North Baptist church, Chicago, Ill., 1861-65, the Second Baptist church, St. Louis, Mo., as assistant to Galusha Anderson, 1865-66; and as pastor of Beaumont Street church, 1866-72. He was elected president of Shurtleff college, Upper Alton, Ill., 1872; as successor to the Rev. Daniel Read who had resigned in 1870. President Kendrick was succeeded in 1894, by Austen K.de Blois, Ph.D., and he continued at the college as lecturer on Christian evidences, making his home in St. Louis, Mo. He received the degree of D.D., and that of LL.D. from Shurtleff college.

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