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SMITH, Judson, educator, born in Middlefield, Hampshire County, Mass, 28 June, 1837. He was graduated at Amherst in 1859, and at Oberlin theological seminary in 1863, was tutor in Latin and Greek in Oberlin in 1862-'4, instructor in mathemattes and metaphysics in Williston academy, Easthampton, Massachusetts, for the subsequent two years, professor of Latin at Oberlin in 1866-'70, occupied the chair of ecclesiastical history and positive institutions in Oberlin theological seminary in 1870-'84, lecturer on modern history in Oberlin in 1875-'84, and lecturer on history in "Lake Erie female seminary in 1879-'84. In 1866 he was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational church. He edited the "Bibliotheca Sacra" in 1882-'4, and has since been one of its associate editors, was president of the Oberlin board of education in 1871-'84, and since that date has been foreign secretary of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. Amherst gave him the degree of D. D. in 1877. His publications include, besides many magazine articles, a series of " Lectures in Church History and the History of Doctrine from the Beginning of the Christian Era till 1684" (Oberlin, 1881). He is also the author of " Lectures on Modern History" (printed privately, 1881).
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