Halsey, Leroy Jones

D.D. (Hanover College, Ind., 1853), LL.D, (South-western University, Clarksville, Tenn., 1880), Presbyterian; b. in Goochland County, Va., Jan. 28, 1812; graduated at Nashville (Tenn.) University in 1831, and at Princeton (N.J.) Theological Seminary in 1840; from 1844 to 1849 was pastor in Jackson, Mi . until 1859, in Louisville, Ky.; until 1882 profe or of pastoral theology, church government, and homiletics, in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the North-west, Chicago, 111. (being one of the four original profe ors); and since 1882 has been profe or emeritus. From 1876 to 1884 he was a ociate editor of The Interior, a religious weekly, published at Chicago; and since, contributing editor. He is the author of Literary Attractions of the Bible, New York, 1858 (3 editions); Life Pictures from the Bible, Philadelphia, 1859 Beauty of Immanuel, 1860; Life and Works of Philip Lindsley, D.D., 1861; Life and Sermons of Lewis Warner Green, D.D., New York, 1867; Living Christianity, Philadelphia, 1882; Scotland's Place in Civilization, 1885.