[Marvin Richardson]. American clergyman and educator, born at Poughkeepsie, NY, on the 11th of September 1834. He was educated at Columbia College; then assisted in directing the Columbia grammar-school for four years, after which he became professor of Latin in Troy University. Having studied theology in private, he was ordained as minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but his views changed, and he entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Troy (1863–73), of the Church of the Covenant in New York (1873–88), and then accepted the chair of sacred literature in Union Seminary. He has written Amusement a Force in Christian Training (1867); Stranger and Guest (1879); Faith and Character (1880); In the Shadow of the Pyrenees (1883); Word Studies in the New Testament (1887–90); and That Monster, the Higher Critic (1895).
