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SWIFT, Elisha Pope, clergyman, born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, 12 August, 1792; died in Alleghany, Pennsylvania, 3 April, 1865. He was graduated at Williams in 1813, studied two years at Princeton theological seminary, was licensed to preach by the presbytery of New Brunswick in April, 1816, and ordained as a Congregationalist, 3 September, 1817. After preaching in Dover and Milford, Delaware, he became a pastor of the 2d Presbyterian church at Pittsburg in 1819, and remained there thirteen years. He was secretary of the Western foreign missionary society in 1831-'5, and pastor of the 1st Presbyterian church, Alleghany, in 1835-'65. He was a member of the board of directors of the Western theological seminary from its organization, and president of the board from 1861 till his death. He established the "Western Foreign Missionary Chronicle" in 1833, and continued it three years. He published "The Sacred Manual" (Pittsburg, 1821), and sermons and addresses.
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