Erasmus D. MacMaster Collection 1838-1968 1844-1890

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Erasmus D. MacMaster Collection 1838-1968 1844-1890

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Collection of materials related to the life and career of nineteenth century American academic and theologian Erasmus D. MacMaster.

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Miami University

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MacMaster, E. D. (Erasmus Darwin), 1806-1866

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Erasmus D. MacMaster was born in Mercer Pennsylvania on February 4, 1806. He earned an A.B. from Union College, Chicago, Illinois in 1827. MacMaster was licensed by the Reformed Presbytery of New York on June 16, 1829, and ministered in Ballston N.Y. from 1831 to 1838. After serving as President of Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana from 1838 to 1845, MacMaster accepted the presidency of Miami University. His Miami tenure was plagued by smallpox and cholera outbreaks and conflicts with the stud...