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DICKINSON, Baxter, clergyman, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, 14 April 1795" died in Brooklyn, New York, 7 December 1875. He was graduated at Yale in 1817 and at Andover theological seminary in 1821. After having pastoral charge of Congregational Churches at Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and at Newark, New Jersey, he was in 1835 appointed professor of sacred rhetoric and pastoral theology in Lane seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained until 1839. From 1839 till 1847 he held a similar chair in Auburn seminary, and served as acting professor at Andover in 1848. He was subsequently engaged for nine years in Boston in the service of the American and foreign Christian union and of the American board. He was the author of "Letters to Students," which was republished in England.
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