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GANSE, Hervey Doddridge, clergyman, born in Fishkill, New York, 7 February, 1822. He was graduated at Columbia in 1839 and at the New Brunswick seminary in 1843. He was licensed to preach in 1843, and had charge of Dutch Reformed Churches in Freehold, New Jersey, and New York City till 1876, when he became pastor of the first Presbyterian Church in St. Louis. This charge he resigned in 1883, to become first secretary of the Presbyterian board of aid for Colleges and academies, in Chicago, Illinois In 1861 the degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Rutgers College. His publications are " Bible Slave-holding not Sinful," a reply to "Slave-holding not Sinful" by Dr. Samuel B. How (1856), and various sermons and hymns.
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