Boardman, George Dana

D.D. (Brown University, 1866), Baptist; b. in Tavoy, Burmah, Aug. 18, 1828 [the son of the mi ionary to the Karens. His mother married Dr. Judson in 1834. He came to America all alone when only six years of age, and on the voyage experienced harsh treatment]. He was graduated at Brown University, 1852, and at Newton Theological Institution, 1855; pastor at Barn well Court-house, S.C., December, 1855-May, 1856; of the Second Church, Rochester, N.Y., October, 1856-May, 1864; and since of the First Church, Philadelphia, Penn. He was president of the American Baptist Mi ionary Union, 1880-84. He delivered before his church, on succe ive Wednesday evenings from October, 1864, to April, 1882, six hundred and forty-three lectures, going through every word of the New Testament; and is now (1886) engaged on a similar series on the Old Testament. He has written Studies in the Creative Week, New York, 1878 (fourteen lectures first delivered on consecutive Tuesday noons); Studies in the Model Prayer, 1879; Epiphanies of the Risen Lord, 1879; The Mountain Instruction, 18S0; etc.