GREGORY, DANIEL SEELYE: Presbyterian; b. at Carmel, N. Y., Aug. 21, 1832. He was educated at the College of New Jersey (A.B., 1857) and Princeton Theological Seminary (1860). He was instructor in rhetoric in the College of New Jersey (1858-60), and held pastorates at the South Church, Galena, Ill. (1860-63), Second Presbyterian Church, Troy, N. Y. (1863-66), Third Congregational Church, New Haven, Conn. (1866-69), and South Salem, N. Y. (1869-71). He was then professor of metaphysics, logic, and English literature in Wooster University, Wooster, O. (1871-78), and president of Lake Forest University, Ill., (1878-1886). He was managing editor of the Standard Dictionary from 1890 to 1894, and from 1895 to 1904 was editor of The Homiletic Review. Since 1904 he has been secretary of the American Bible League and managing editor of the Bible Student and Teacher. He has written Christian Ethics (Philadelphia, 1875); Key to the Gospels (New York, 1877); Practical Logic (Philadelphia, 1881); Christ's Trumpet Call to the Ministry (New York, 1896); The Church in America and its Baptisms of Fire (in collaboration with S. B. Halliday, 1896); and The Crime of Christendom (Philadelphia, 1900).
GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT: English mathematician; b. at Yaxley (13 m. n. of Huntingdon), Huntingdonshire, Jan. 29, 1774; d. at Woolwich (7 m. e.s.e. of St. Paul's, London) Feb. 2, 1841. He received his training under Richard Weston, the Leicester botanist, and in 1796 settled in Cambridge, where he devoted himself chiefly to tutorial work. In 1802 he became mathematical master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and in 1807 professor of mathematics there, a position which he held till 1838. He was editor of the Gentleman's Diary 1802-19, and of the Ladies' Diary 1819-40. He published a number of
|
76 |
Bibliography: C. Knight, English Cycfopadia: Biography, iii. 193-194, 27 vols., London, 18W70; DNB, mi. 103.
| Calvin College. Last modified on 08/11/06. Contact the CCEL. |  |