American clergyman, born in New York City on the 19th of June 1851; studied at the College of the City of New York, at Union Theological Seminary and at Leipsic; became Presbyterian pastor at Norwood, NJ (1876); was assistant editor of Schaff’s Bible Dictionary (1878–80); joint editor with Dr. Schaff of the Encyclopædia of Living Divines (1886); editor of The Magazine of Christian Literature (1889–91). He wrote several volumes of Dr. Schaff’s Church History, and published in 1891 A Concise Dictionary of Religious Knowledge.
