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ROCKWELL, Joel Edson, clergyman, born in Salisbury, Vermont, 4 May, 1816; died in Brooklyn, New York, 29 July, 1882. He was graduated at Amherst in 1837, and in 1841 at Union theological seminary, New York city, ordained off 13 October, 1841, and was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Valatie, New York, till 1847, and then for four years in Wilmington, Delaware He next had charge of the Central church in Brooklyn, New York, till 1868, and subsequently of the church at Stapleton, on Staten island. From 1852 till 1860 he edited the "Sabbath-School Visitor" in New York city. He received the degree of D.D. from" Jefferson college in 1859. He published "Sketches of the Presbyterian Church" (Philadelphia, 1854) ; "The Young Christian Warned" (1857) ; "Visitors' Questions" (1857) ; "Scenes and Impressions Abroad" (New York, 1859); and " My Sheet-Anchor" (Philadelphia, 1864).
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