Kidder, Daniel Parish

D.D. (McKendree College, Lebanon, 111., 1851), Methodist; b. at Darien, N.Y., Oct. 18, 1815; graduated at Wesley an University, Middle town, Conn., 1836; was mi ionary in Brazil, 1837-40; pastor at home, 1840-44; was Sunday-school editor and secretary, 1844-56; profe or of practical theology in Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, 111., 1856-71; held the same chair in Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J., 1871-80, when he was elected secretary of the M. E. Board of Education, New-York City. He is author of Mormonism and Mormons, N.Y., 1841; Sketches of Residence in Brazil, 1845, 2 vols.; The Christian Pastorate, Cincinnati, 1871; A Treatise on Homiletics, New York, 1864; Helps to Prayer, 1874; with Rev. J. C. Fletcher, of the standard work, Brazil and the Brazil i ans, Philadelphia, 1857, 9th ed. Boston, 1880; translated from the Portuguese, Feijo's Nece ity of abolishing a Constrained Clerical Celibacy, New York, 1844.