Taylor, William James Romeyn

D.D. (Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., 1860), Reformed (Dutch); b. at Schodack, Ren elaer County, N.Y., July 31, 1823; graduated at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., 1841; and at the theological seminary of the Reformed Church in America, in the same place, 1844; became pastor at New Durham, N.J., 1844; Jersey City, N.J. (Second Church), 1846; Schenectady, N.Y. (First. Church), 1849; Jersey City, N.J. (Third Church), 1852; Philadelphia, Penn. (Third Church), 1854;. corresponding secretary of the American Bible Society, 1862; pastor of the Clinton-avenue Reformed Church, New 227 ark, N.J., 1869. He edited The Christian Intelligencer (the denominational organ), New York, 1872-76; was president of the General Synod of the denomination, 1871; has been trustee of Rutgers College since 1878. Heis the author of Louisa, a Pastor's Memorial, Philadelphia, 1860; many occasional sermons and addre es in pamphlet form; tracts; about two hundred columns, chiefly biographical and historical, in McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia; Hie Bible in the Last Hundred Years: a Historical Discourse for the American Bible Society in the United States Centennial, 1876; Church Extension in Large Cities (1880), and On Co-operation in Foreign Ali ions (1884), papers in the second and third councils, respectively, of the Alliance of Reformed Churches, etc. See list in Corwin's Manual of Reformed Church, 3d ed. New York, 1879, pp. 480, 481.