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SCHENCK, William Edward, clergyman, born in Princeton, New Jersey, 29 March, 1819. He was graduated at Princeton in 1838, and at the theological seminary in 1841, after taking up and abandoning the study of law. After doing missionary work in the Pennsylvania coal region, he was ordained in 1843, and until 1852 held pastorates successively in Manchester, New Jersey, New York city, and Princeton. He was then superintendent of church extension in the presbytery of Philadelphia till 1854, when he became corresponding secretary of the Presbyterian board of publication. He was also its editor in 1862-'70, and in the same years served as permanent clerk of the general assembly of the old-school branch of his denomination. Since 1866 he has been a director of Princeton theological seminary. Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, gave him the degree of D. D. in 1861. Dr. Schenck has published "Historical Account of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, New Jersey" (Princeton, 1851); "Aunt Fanny's Home" (Philadelphia, 1865) ; "Children in Heaven" (1866) ; "Nearing Home" (1867) ; and sermons and tracts in English and German. He has also prepared a " General Catalogue of Princeton Theological Seminary" (Trenton, 1881), and its necrological reports since 1875.
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