Harris, Samuel

D.D. (Williams College, Williams town, Ma ., 1855), LL.D. (Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1871), Congregationalist; b. at East Machias, Me., June 14, 1814; graduated at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1833, and at And over (Ma .) Theological Seminary, 1838; was principal of Limerick Academy, Me., 1833-34, and of Washington Academy, East Machias, Me., 1834-35, 1838-41; pastor at Conway, Ma ., 1841- 51, and at Pittsfield, Ma ., 1851-55; profe or of systematic theology in the Bangor Theological Seminary, 1855-67 (from 1855 to 1863, jointly with Rev. Prof. George Shepard, D.D., acting pastor of the Center Church in Bangor); president of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., and profe or of mental and moral philosophy, 1867-71; since 1871 has been Dwight profe or of systematic theology in Yale Theological Seminary, New Haven, Conn. Besides many sermons, pamphlets, and articles in reviews, he has published Zaccheus, the Scriptural Plan of Beneficence, Boston, 1844; Christ's Prayer for the Death of his Redeemed, 1863; The Kingdom of Christ on Earth, And over, 1874; The Philosophical Basis of Theism, New York, 1883.