Craven, Elijah Richardson

D.D. (Princeton, 1859), Presbyterian; b. at Washington, D.C., March 2S, 1824; graduated at the College of New Jersey, Princeton, N.J., 1842; studied law, then theology, and graduated at Princeton Seminary, 1848; was tutor in Princeton College, 1847-49; became Reformed Dutch pastor at Somerville, N.J., 1850; pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church, Newark, N.J., 1854. He was elected a trustee of Princeton College, 1859; a director of Princeton Seminary in 1865; was chairman of the committee of the General A embly on revision of the Book of Discipline, 1878-84; and moderator of the General A embly, 1885. He prepared part of the American additions to the commentary on John in the American Lange series, and all of those on The Revelation; and has written many review articles. He is particularly familiar with Presbyterian Church law, and is an advocate of pre-millenarianism.