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GARRISON, Joseph Fithian, clergyman, born in Fairton, Cumberland County, New Jersey, 20 January 1823. He was graduated at Princeton in 1842, and in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1845. He entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1855, and became rector of St. Paul's, Camden, New Jersey, which he resigned on being appointed professor of liturgics and canon law in the Philadelphia divinity-school, which chair he still holds (1887). He has contributed largely to periodical literature, and has published separately, besides numerous discourses, "The Formation of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States" (1885), and the Bohlen lectures for 1887 on "The American Prayer-Book" its Principles and the Law of its Use" (1887). The degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Princeton.
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