Magoon, Elias Lyman

D.D. (Rochester University, N.Y., 1853), Baptist; b. at Lebanon, N.H., Oct. 20, 1810; d. in Philadelphia, Penn., Nov. 25, 1886. He was educated at New Hampton Academy (1830-32), Waterville College, Me., now Colby University (1832-36), and at the Newton (Ma .) Theological Institution (1836-39); became pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., 1839; resigned on account of the division in the denomination on the question of slavery, and became pastor of the Ninth-street Baptist Church, Cincinnati, O., 1845; of the Oliver-street Baptist Church, New York, 1849; of the First Baptist Church, Albany, N.Y., 1857; of the Broad-street Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Penn., 1867. He was apprenticed to the bricklayer's trade in 1826, worked at it until 1830; and by means of it during vacations and at other times supported himself through his academy, college, and seminary life. Because of it he early took interest in ecclesiastical architecture, and gathered in the course of years a large and valuable library upon the subject. He was a man of catholic tastes, wide reading, and great personal charm. A few years before his death he sold for twenty you sand dollars his art collection to Va ar College, of which he was a director, and at the same time presented his Protestant literature collection to Newton (Ma .) Theological Institution, his illustrated art works to Rochester (N.Y.) University, many of his miscellaneous works to Colby University and to Bates College (Maine), a collection of water-colors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York City, and his Roman-Catholic theological works to Cardinal McCloskey. He is the author of Orators of the American Revolution, New York, 1848; Proverbs for the People, Boston, 1848; Living Orators in America, New York, 1849; Republican Christianity, Boston, 1849; Westward Empire, the Great Drama of Human Progre , New York, 1856. *