- Erasmus D. MacMaster
Erasmus Darwin MacMaster (
February 4 ,1806 --December 10 ,1866 ) was a 19th Century American academic and theologian who served as president ofHanover College andMiami University .He was born in
Mercer, Pennsylvania and graduated in 1827 fromUnion College . He was licensed as aPresbyterian minister by the Reformed Presbytery of New York in 1829 and served as a minister inBallston, New York from 1831 until 1838 when he became the third president of Hanover College. He presided over the short-lived move of the college toMadison, Indiana where it was briefly re-named Madison College in 1845. Hanover quickly moved back toHanover, Indiana and MacMaster left to become the third president of Miami University inOhio . His Miami presidency lasted from 1845 until 1849 and in 1850 he became a professor of theology at the Theological Seminary inNew Albany, Indiana . He was appointed professor of theology atNorthwestern Theological Seminary inChicago, Illinois in June 1866 and died there in December of that year.
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