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HILLER, Alfred, clergyman, born near Sharon Springs, Schoharie County, New York, 22 April, 1831. He received his preparatory training in academies at Ames and Canajoharie, New York, and was graduated at Hartwick theological seminary, in Otsego county, New York, in 1857. In the same year he entered the ministry of the Lutheran church, and was pastor of congregations at Fayette, New York, in 1857-'8, and German Valley, New York, in 1858-'81. During a two-months' service in the civil war, in the spring of 1865, he was in the employ of the United States Christian commission, and organized an army church of seventy-seven members at Edyfield, near Nashville, Tennessee In 1881 he was elected president of Hartwick theological seminary and professor of systematic theology. He received the degree of D.D. from Wittenberg college in 1882.
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