Bissell, Edwin Cone

D.D. (Amherst, 1874), Congregation alist; b. at Schoharie, N.Y., March 2, 1832; graduated at Amherst College, Ma , 1855, and Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1859; was pastor of Congregational churches at West hampton, Ma . (1859-64); San Francisco, Cal. (1864-69); A Vin chester, Ma . (1870-73); mi ionary of the A. B. C. F. M. in Austria, 1873- 78; studied the Old Testament in Boston and Leipzig, 1878-81; since 1881 has been profe or of Hebrew in the Hartford Theological Seminary. During first pastorate raised and commanded Company K, Fifty-second Regiment Ma achusetts Volunteers, which served under Gen. Banks at Port Hudson during 1862-63. For a year (1869-70) he was stated supply at Honolulu, Oahu (Sandwich Islands). He is the author of The Historic Origin of the Bible, New York, 1873; The Apocrypha of the Old Testament (a revised trans., introduction and notes, forms vol. xv. of the Old Testament in the American Lange series), 1880; The Pent a teuch, its Origin and Structure: an Examination of Recent Theories, 1885.