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DE WITT, William Radeliffe, clergyman, born in Clinton. Dutchess County, New York, 25 February. 1792 ; died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 23 December 1867. He was trained to mercantile life, but studied theology with Dr. Alexander Proudfit. Leaving his studies to volunteer in the war of 1812'5, he fought under Com. McDonough on Lake Champlain. After the war he completed his theological course with the Rev. Dr. John M. Mason, of New York City, and became, in 1818, pastor of the Church in Harrisburg, over which he presided until his death. From 1854 till 1867 he filled the office of state librarian, and interested himself in the public school system of the state.
His son, John, clergyman, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 10 October 1842, was graduated at Princeton in 1861, studied law, then theology, in Princeton seminary and the Union theological seminary in New York City, and was ordained, 9 June 1865. >From 1865 till 1869 he was pastor at Irvington, New York, then till 1876 of the Central Presbyterian Church in Boston, Massachusetts, and of the 10th Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia from the latter year till 1882, when he became professor of ecclesiastical history in Lane seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio. He has published " Sermons on the Christian Life" (New York, 1885).
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