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STANTON, Robert Livingston, clergyman, born in Griswold, Connecticut, 28 March, 1810. After graduation at Lane theological seminary in 1836 he was ordained by the presbytery of Mississippi in 1839, and held charge of churches in Blue Ridge, Ohio, from 1839 till 1841, Woodville, Ohio, in 1841-'3, and in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1843 till 1851, when he became president of Oakland college, Mississippi, serving until 1854. From 1855 till 1862 he was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Chillicothe, Ohio, from 1862 till 1866 he was professor of pastoral theology and homiletics in Danville theological seminary, and from 1866 till 1871 he was president of Miami university. In 1871-'2 he engaged in literary work in New York city, and subsequently he was an editor of the "Herald and Presbyter" in Cincinnati. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by Princeton, and by Washington college, Virginia, in 1852. Dr. Stanton is the author of " The Church and the Rebellion " (New York, 1864).
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