History of Northumberland, (Saratoga County) New York United States of America

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Tayler Lewis, educator, was born in Northumberland, N.Y., March 27, 1802; son of Samuel and Sarah (Van Valkenburg) Lewis. His father was an officer in the Revolutionary army and his mother was a niece of John Tayler, lieutenant-governor of New York, and a descendant of Johannas Van Valkenberg, a native of Holland and an early settler of Albany. Tayler Lewis was graduated from Union college in 1820, studied law in Albany, N.Y., and practised at Fort Miller, N.Y., 1823-33. He devoted his leisure to the study of Biblical literature and to the Greek and Latin languages. He conducted a classical school at Waterford, N.Y., 1833-35, and one at Ogdensburg, N.Y., 1835-38. In 1838 he delivered the Phi Beta Kappa address at Union, taking as his subject "Faith, the Life of Science." This address, which was published, attracted wide attention. He was professor of Greek and Latin languages at the University of the City of New York, 1838-40, and of Greek language and literature, 1840-44. He was professor of ancient Oriental languages and literature at Union college, 1849-63, and of ancient languages, 1863-77. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Union college in 1844. In the selection of names for a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, New York university, made in October, 1900, his was one of the fifteen names submitted in" Class C, Educaters" and received two votes. His published writings include: Believing Spirit (1841); State, Family and Church (1843); Plato contra Atheos (1844); Penalty of Death, in George B. Cheerer's "Defence of Capital Punishment" (1846); Six Days of Creation (1855); The Bible and Science, or the World Problem (1856); The Divine Human in the Scripture (1860); The Heroic Periods in a Nation's History (1866); The Light by which we see Light, Vedder Lectures (1875); Memoir's of Eliphalet Nott, with Van Santvoord and Lewis (1875); Bible Psalmody, the Imprecatory Psalms (1880); Wine Drinking and the Scriptures (1881); and contributions to Lange's Commentary, and to Harper's Magazine and other periodicals. He died in Schenectady, N.Y., May 11, 1877.

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

History of Northumberland, (Saratoga County) New York

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