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WILLIAMSON, Isaac Dowd, clergyman, born in Pomfret, Vermont, 4 April, 1807; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, 26 November, 1876. He was a Universalist minister, on 10 September, 18o9, at Townsend, Vermont, was pastor at Albany, New York, from 1830 till 1887, and subsequently held charges in Baltimore, Maryland, New York city, Philadelphia, Mobile. Ala., Cincinnati, Ohio, Lowell. Mass., and Louisville, Kentucky In 1878 he again became pastor at Cincinnati. He composed a large part of the ritual of the Order of Odd-Fellows, of which he was chaplain for many years. At different times he was editor of the "Gospel Banner," at Troy, New York, the "Religious Inquirer," at Hartford, Connecticut, the "Herald and Era," at Louisville, Kentucky, and the "Star in the West," at Cincinnati. He published " Argument for the Truth of Christianity" (New York, 1836); "Exposition and Defence of Universalism" (1840) ; " The Crown of Life. a Series of Discourses" (Boston, 1850); "Examination of the Doctrine of Endless Punishment" (Cincinnati, 1854); "The Philosophy of Odd-Fellowship" (1855) ; "The Philosophy of Universalism" (1866); and "Rudiments of Theological and Moral Science', (1870).
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