Robbins, Chandler, D.D.
Robbins, Chandler, D.D
a Unitarian minister, was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, February 14, 1810. He graduated from Harvard College in 1829, and from the Cambridge Divinity School in 1833. He was ordained December 4 of that year pastor of the Second Church, Boston, as the successor of Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was his only pastorate, and; continued for forty-one years. He died at Weston, Massachusetts, September 11, 1882. Among his published writings are A History of the Second Church in Boston, with Lives of Increase and Cotton Mather, and several sermons. He edited the works of Henry Ware, Jr. (4 volumes), compiled The Social Hymn-book, and a Hymn-book for Christian Worship. See Boston Advertiser, September 12, 1882. (J.C.S.)
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Robbins, Chandler, D.D.
a Congregational minister, was born at Branford, Conn., Aug. 24, 1738. He graduated at Yale College in 1756, studied under Dr. Bellamy, and was ordained Jan. 30, 1760, pastor at Plymouth, Mass., where he continued until his death, June 30, 1799. He was made D.D. by the University of Edinburgh in 1793. His publications were, A Reply to John Cotton’s Essays on Baptism (1773): Some Brief Remarks on a Piece Published by John Cotton, Esq. (1774): –An Address at Plymouth to the Inhabitants Assembled to Celebrate the Victories of the French Republic over their Invaders (1793), and a few occasional Sermons. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1, 573.