History of Pottsgrove, (Montgomery County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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Washington Gladden, preacher and writer, was born at Pottsgrove, Pa., Feb. 11, 1836; son of Solomon and Amanda (Daniels) Gladden. His father was a native of Massachusetts and was teaching school in Pennsylvania at the time of his son's birth. The first ancestor in America came from England to Plymouth, Mass., in 1640. Washington Gladden began his life on a farm near Owego, N.Y., and received his education in a country district school. He learned the printer's trade in 1859 and was graduated at Williams college. His theological studies were cut short by necessity; but he was licensed to preach in 1860 and was ordained pastor of the State Street Congregational church, Brooklyn, N.Y., in the same year. He was pastor of a church at Morrisania, N.Y., from 1861 to 1866, and at North Adams, Mass., from 1866 to 1871, when he removed to New York city and was connected with the editorial staff of the Independent, 1871-75. He was pastor of the North Congregational church in Springfield, Mass., .1875-82, meanwhile editing, for a time, the Sunday Afternoon. He became pastor of the First Congregational church in Columbus, Ohio, in 1882. He acquired a wide reputation as an editor and contributor to periodicals, as a public lecturer and reformer, and as an author. He was elected a trustee of Williams college in 1887 and of Marietta college in 1883. He was elected a member of the American social science association; of the American economical association, and of the Ohio arch?ological and historical society. He received the degree of D.D. from Roanoke college in 1884 and that of LL.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1881, and from Notre Dame university, Ind., in 1895. His published writings include: Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living (1868); From the Hub to the Hudson (1869); Workingmen and Their Employers (1876); Being a Christian (1876); The Christian Way (1877); The Lord's Prayer (1880); The Christian League of Connecticut (1883); Things New and Old (1884); The Young Men and the Churches (1885); Applied Christianity (1887); Parish Problems (1888); Burning Questions of the Life that Now is and that which is to Come (1889); Tools and the Man: Property and Industry Under the Christian Law (1893); The Cosmopolis City Club (1893); Who Wrote the Bible (1894); Ruling Ideas of the Present Age (1895); Seven Puzzling Bible Books (1897); Social Facts and Forces (1898); The Christian Pastor and the Working Church (1898); Art and Morality (1898); How Much is Left of the Old Doctrines? (1899).

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

History of Pottsgrove, (Montgomery County) Pennsylvania

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