Bliss, Howard Sweetser

BLISS, HOWARD SWEETSER: Congregational missionary; b. at Mount Lebanon, Syria, Dec. 6, 1860. He was educated at Amherst College (B.A., 1882), Union Theological Seminary (1884–1887), and the universities of Oxford (1887–88), Göttingen, and Berlin (1888–89). He taught at Washburn College, Topeka, Kan., in 1883–84, and after his return from Europe to the United States was successively assistant pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. (1889–94), and pastor of the Christian Union Congregational Church, Upper Montclair, N. J. (1894–1902). Since 1902 he has been president of the Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, Syria.