Samson, George White field

D.D. (Columbian University, Washington, D.C., 1858), Baptist; b. at Harvard, Ma ., Sept. 29, 1819; graduated at Brown University, 1839, and at Newton Theological Institution, Newton Centre, Ma ., 1843; was pastor E-street Church, Washington, D.C., 1843- 50; Jamaica Plain, Boston, Ma ., 1850-52; Estreet, Washington, D.C., 1853-59; president of Columbian College, Washington, D.C., 1859-71 of Rutgers Female Seminary, New-York City, 1871-75; pastor of First (Mount Morris) Church, Harlem, New-York City, 1873-81; since 1883 has been secretary in charge of Liberia College; since 1884 has conducted private collegiate instruction; since 1886 has been acting president of Rutgers Female College, New-York City. He is the author of To daimon i on, or the Spiritual Medium, Boston, 1852, 2d ed. (under title Spiritualism Tested) 1860; Thanksgiving Discourse, 1853; Memoir of M. J. Graham (prefaced to ed. of Graham's Test of Truth), 1859; Outlines of the History of Ethics, 1860; Elements ofArt Criticism, Philadelphia, 1867, abridged ed. 1868; Physical Media in Spiritual Manifestations, illustrated from Ancient and Modern Testimony, 1869; The Atonement, viewed as A umed Divine Responsibility, 1878; Divine Law as to Wines, established by the Testimony of Sages, Physicians, and Legislators agamst the Use of Fermented and Intoxicating Wines, confirmed by Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Methods of preparing Unfermented Wines for Festal, Medicinal, and Sacramental Uses, New York, 1 880, 2d ed. 1885; English Revisers' 1 Greek Text shown to be Unauthorized except by Egyptian Copies discaixled by the Greeks, 1882; Guide to Self Education, 1886.