Brastow, Lewis Orsmond
BRASTOW, LEWIS ORSMOND: Congregationalist;
b. at Brewer, Me., Mar. 23, 1834. He was
educated at Bowdoin College (B.A., 1857) and
254Bangor Theological Seminary (1860), and held
successive pastorates at the South Congregational
Church, St. Johnsbury, Vt. (1860–73), and the First
Congregational Church, Burlington, Vt. (1873–84),
in addition to being chaplain of the Twelfth Vermont
Volunteers in the Civil War. Since 1885
he has been professor of practical theology in Yale
Divinity School. He was a member of the Constitutional
Convention of the State of Vermont
in 1870. In theology he is a conservative liberal,
and in addition to numerous briefer contributions
has written Representative Modern Preachers (New
York, 1904) and The Modern Pulpit (1906).