a Presbyterian minister, was born in Butler, Pa., November 24, 1827, and was educated at the University of New York City, where for one year he served as tutor; studied theology at Princeton, N.J.; afterwards became principal of a presbyterial academy in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; was licensed by the Luzerne Presbytery in 1851, at which time he engaged in the work of foreign missions among the Choctaw Indians; in 1853 he was ordained, and April 22 sailed as missionary to Shanghai, China. Here he applied himself to the study of the Chinese language, translated the Shorter Catechism, and a Catechism on the Old-Testament History, into this dialect; devoted much time to the completion of a Dictionary of the Four Books, commenced by his deceased brother; he had also nearly finished a Conmmentary on the Gospel of Matthew in Chinese when he died, April 26, 1860. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Alm. 1861, page 96.<\/p>\n
Lowrie, Reuben a Presbyterian minister, was born in Butler, Pa., November 24, 1827, and was educated at the University of New York City, where for one year he served as tutor; studied theology at Princeton, N.J.; afterwards became principal of a presbyterial academy in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; was licensed by the Luzerne Presbytery in 1851, … Continue reading “Lowrie, Reuben”<\/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-63662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63662","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=63662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}