American orientalist, born at Abington, MA, on the 25th of June 1835; graduated at Amherst College (1856), and at Andover Theological Seminary (1859); pastor of a church at Oskaloosa, KS (1859); instructor in natural sciences in Beloit College, Wisconsin (1857–58); professor of Latin in Ripon College, Wisconsin (1865–68); superintending editor of the New York Independent (1870). He gave special attention to Assyrian and Babylonian archæological studies, and in 1884 was director of the expedition to Babylonia which was sent by Miss Catherine L. Wolfe of New York City. He contributed to the Bibliotheca Sacra, and to the proceedings of oriental societies. With Mrs. Lanier he edited Sydney Lanier’s Poems (1884). In 1889 he was elected president of the American Oriental Society.
