[Thomas Cogswell]. American educator, born at Deerfield, NH, on the 30th of January 1799. He was a graduate of Dartmouth, and Andover Theological Seminary, and acted as assistant professor of Hebrew for one year at the latter place; was then (1823) ordained for the ministry as pastor of the Congregational Church in Rochester, NH, and in 1825 was chosen professor of mental and moral philosophy at Bowdoin College, which position he held until retired in 1867, retaining the title of professor emeritus. He published Manual of Peace (1830); Philosophical and Practical Treatise on the Will (1834); Elements of Mental Philosophy (1839); Outlines of Disordered and Imperfect Mental Action (1840); Life of Faith (1848); Religious Maxims (1854); Letters Written from Egypt, Europe and Palestine (1855); and Christ in the Soul (1872). He died in New York on the 2nd of April 1872.
