William Cleaver Wilkinson

William Cleaver Wilkinson, D.D. (Westford, Vermont, October 19, 1833 - Chicago, April 25, 1920)was a Baptist preacher, professor of theology, professor of poetry, and literary figure.He popularized the "Three W's and the Five W's".

He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1857 and the
Rochester Theological Seminary in 1859. After his graduation, hevisited Great Britain and on his return in November 1859, he becamepastor of the Wooster Place Baptist church in New Haven, Connecticut.On account of ill health, he resigned his pastorate in1861 and took a walking tour of England. On his return in 1863, he became professorad interim of modern languages in the University of Rochester. Notlong after he accepted the pastorate of the Mount Auburn Baptistchurch in Cincinnati, Ohio. Resigning this pastorate in 1866, heopened a private school at Tarrytown, New York. In 1872, he was electedprofessor of homiletics and pastoral theology at Rochester Theological Seminary,a position which he filled with marked ability until 1882when he resigned. After that, he devoted himself entirely to literarywork. In 1871, he was offered the chair of the German language andliterature at the University of Michigan and that of Englishliterature in 1873. In the same year, the University of Rochesterconferred upon him the honorary degree of doctor of divinity.

His "Dedication Hymn" (published in his "Poems") was used at the dedication of Rockefeller Hallat the Rochester Theological Seminary and of the Toronto Baptist College.

In 1892, he became a professor of poetry and criticism at the University of Chicago. [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9907E2D91E3CEE3ABC4F51DFB266838B639EDE New York Times obituary] ]

In 1905, his daughter Evelyn, aged 20, married a 55-year-old man who had divorced his wife; Wilkinson and his wife"denounced their daughter for marrying a man who cast off one wife to wed another". ["New York Times", June 28, 1905 [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9904E4DA173DE733A2575BC2A9609C946497D6CF] ]

He died on April 25, 1920 as a result of injuries from a fall.

Publications

* 1868 "The Dance of Modern Society" [http://www.archive.org/stream/danceman166/danceman166.txt full text]
* 1874 "A Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters"
* 1882 "Preparatory Greek Course in English" (the "in English" books are literature in translation)
* 1883 "Preparatory Latin Course in English"
* 1884 "College Greek Course in English"
* 1885 "College Latin Course in English"
* 1886 "Classic French Course in English" [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23033 full text]
* 1883 "Poems"
* 1884 "Edwin Arnold as Poetizer and as Paganizer, including An Examination Of The "Light Of Asia" For Its Literature And For Its Buddhism"
* 1887 "Classic German course in English"
* 1888 "The Baptist denomination"
* 1891 "The epic of Saul"
* 1897 "The Baptist principle in application to baptism and the Lord's Supper"
* 1897 "The epic of Paul"
* 1905 "Modern masters of pulpit discourse"
* 1905 "Poems"
* 1905 "The epic of Moses : a poem in two parts"
* 1911 "Daniel Webster: a vindication, with other historical essays"
* 1913 "John Pierpont Morgan: an appreciation. A sermon preached at the daily noon service at Wall and Broad Streets"
* 1914 "Paul and the revolt against him"
* 1916 "Concerning Jesus Christ the Son of God"

Notes

References

* This article is based on the public-domain article on Wilkinson in Henry Sweetser, "Baptist Hymn Writers and Their Hymns" (Portland, Maine, 1888). [http://books.google.com/books?id=_tcNAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA467&ots=LNR4HMvNfT&dq=%22william+c+wilkinson%22+theological+rochester&pg=PA467&ci=100,321,843,808&source=bookclip full text at Google Books]