an eminent Presbyterian divine and scholar, was born at Elkton, Md., 1750, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania 1771. In 1773 he was ordained by the Second Presbytery of Philadelphia, and became associate pastor of the First Church and professor of history in the University. During the Revolution he was a zealous Whig, and when the British occupied Philadelphia he retired to Delaware. In 1784 he was appointed vice-president and professor of belles-lettres in Dickinson College, and was also called to be pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Carlisle. On leaving Philadelphia, he was made D.D. by the University. The double duties devolving on him at Carlisle were discharged with signal ability, industry, and success. His learning embraced a wide range, including eight languages, theology, and physics. He was especially devoted to astronomy, and invented an ingenious apparatus called a Cosmosphere, presenting the earth and firmament to view on the same axis. He was also a man of elegant tastes, skilled in music and drawing. In 1785 he was appointed by the Old Synod of New York and Philadelphia, along with Drs. Alison and Ewing, on a committee to prepare an improved version of the Psalms to take the place of Rouse. In 1796 he was chosen moderator of the General Assembly, and in 1804 he succeeded Dr. Nisbet in the presidency of the college, which he resigned in 1809, in order to devote himself exclusively to his pastoral duties. He died at Carlisle Dec. 13, 1812. His publications are, A Dialogue, with two Odes set to Music, 1775; An Epitome of Geography, 1784; A Dialogue, in blank verse; Papers on Astronomy; Funeral Eulogium on Washington, 1799; The Christian’s A, B, C, 1811; New metrical Version of the Psalms, 1812; Occasional Sermons. See Sprague, Annals, 3, 322.<\/p>\n
a Presbyterian minister, only son of Reverend R. Davidson, D.D., second president of Dickinson College, was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1808. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1828, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1831; the following year took charge of the McChord (or Second) Church of Lexington, Kentucky, was ordained there in March 1832, and became distinguished for his pulpit eloquence and his earnest work as a pastor. In 1840 he became president of Transylvania University, Kentucky; in 1842 was appointed stuperintendent of public institutions, but after holding that office a short time and declining a professorship in Centre College and the presidency of Ohio University, he accepted the pastoral charge of the First Presbyterian Church in New Brunswick, N.J., May 4, 1843. In 1859 he became pastor of the Spring Street Church, New York city. From 1864 to 1868 his pastoral charge was the First Church of Huntington, L.I, and he afterwards resided in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, until his death, April 6, 1876. Dr. Davidson served the General Assembly as its permanent clerk from 1845 to 1850. For a quarter of a century he was a member of the Board of Foreign Missions. for ten years a director of Princeton Seminary, and in 1869 was one of the delegates to the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland. He was a frequent contributor to the periodical literature of the day. He published a large number of pamphlets, sermons, etc., and wrote several able articles for the Princeton Review. He was also the author of a number of volumes, the largest and best known of which is his History of the Presbyterian Church in Kentucky. “He was a man of fine culture, a scholar, a writer of great purity and elegance. As a minister of Christ he won and maintained to the end a high position.” See Necrol. Report of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1877, page 26.<\/p>\n
Davidson Robert, D.D. an eminent Presbyterian divine and scholar, was born at Elkton, Md., 1750, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania 1771. In 1773 he was ordained by the Second Presbytery of Philadelphia, and became associate pastor of the First Church and professor of history in the University. During the Revolution he was a … Continue reading “Davidson, Robert, D.D”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}