History of Marbletown, (Ulster County) New York United States of America

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Cornelius Eltinge Crispell, clergyman, was born in Marbletown, N.Y., March 14, 1820; son of Dr. Peter and Catherine (Eltinge) Crispell; grandson of John and Jane (Hasbrouck) Crispell, and of Cornelius and Blandina (Elmendorf) Eltinge, and a descendant of Antoine Crispell, a French Huguenot, who arrived in New Amsterdam in the ship Gilded Otter and settled at Esopus-on-the-Hudson. He was prepared for college at Kingston academy, 1833-36, and was graduated from Rutgers in 1839, and from the Theological seminary of the Reformed church, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1842. He was ordained to the ministry in 1842; was pastor at Pierreout, N.Y., 1842-47; of the Linlithgow church at Livingston, N.Y., 1847-57; and at Schoharie, N.Y., 1857-93. In 1863 he became rector of the grammar school of Rutgers college, and served three years, holding the chair of history in the college in 1865 and 1866. In 1866 he accepted the chair of mathematics, natural philosophy and astronomy in Hope college, Mich., in which he served until 1878. He was professor of didactic and polemic theology of the Reformed church of America at the same institution, 1867-78. During the greater part of this time he also gave instruction in pastoral theology. In June, 1879, he resigned his chair to accept the pastorate of the Reformed church of Spring Valley, N.Y. He was married in 1842 to Sarah, daughter of Dr. Frederick Richmond of New Brunswick, N.J. She died in 1848 and in 1850 he was married to Anna Bausman, daughter of Dr. John Gabriel Gebhard of Claverack, N.Y., and granddaughter of the Rev. John Gabriel Gebhard, for fifty years pastor of the Reformed church of Claverack. Rutgers college conferred upon hint the degree of D.D. in 1867.

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

History of Marbletown, (Ulster County) New York

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