Haley, John William

Congregationalist; b. at Tuft on borough, N.H., June 8, 1834; graduated at Dart mouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1860, and at And over Theological Seminary, Ma ., 1864; was pastor of the Christian Church, East port, Me., 1864-65; profe or of metaphysics, Union College, Merom, Ind., 1865; pastor at Somerset, Ma ., 1866-69; acting pastor of the Congregational Church, Duxbury, Ma ., 1869-70; resident licentiate at And over, Ma ., 1870-71, 1872-74; acting pastor at Dudley, Ma ., 1872. Since 1874 has been engaged in literary work at Tyngsborough, Ma . (1874-80), at Lowell, Ma . (1880-84), and since at Amherst; he has also preached in these places and their vicinity. He took an active part in the Lowell Hebrew Club, organized in 1875. He is the author of Examination of Alleged Discrepancies of the Bible, And over, 1874, 3d ed. 1882; The Hereafter of Sin: What it will be; ivith Answers to Certain Questions and Objections, 1881; edited The Book of Esther, a New Translation, with Notes, Excursuses, Illustrations, and Indexes, by a Hebrew Club, 1885. He taught Hebrew in 1885, and Hebrew and Greek in 1886, in the Amherst Summer School of Languages. He has also lectured on different topics.