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WAKFIELD


WARFIELD


Examiner, 1838-44. He visited Europe, 1848-49, ami for two years following his return, lectured ui>on his travels in New York and Boston. He was married, June 10, 1823, to Mary, daughter of Dr. Benjamin and Elizabeth (Oliver) Waterhouse. He published: Letters from Palmyra (2 vols., 1S37), re-published as Zeitobia, or the Fall of Pal- myra (London and New York. 1868); Prolrn^. afterwards published as Aiirelian (5 vols., 1838); Julian, or Scenes in Jiulea (2 vols., 1841); Ameri- can Unitarian Biography (2 vols., 1850-51); Sk-etches of European Capitals, lectures (1851); Lectures on the Works and Genius of Washington Allston (1852), and a Memoir of Nathaniel Bacon in Sparks's '* American Biography " (1848). He died in Cambridge. Ma.ss.. Ffb. 19. 1852.

WARFIELD, Benjamin Breckinridge, theolo- gian, was born near Lexington, K}., Nov. 5, ISol; son of William (q.v.) and Mary Cabell (Breckinridge) Warfield. He received his pri- mary e«lucation at private schools at Lexington, Ky., and was graduated from the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874, and from Princeton Theological seminary, 1876. mean- while continuing his studies abroad, 1872-73, and at the University of Leipzig, 1876-77. He was married, Aug. 3, 1876. to Anna Pearce daughter ofGreorge Blackburn and Eliza (Pearce) Kinkead of Lexington, Ky. He was stated supply at Con- cord church, Kentucky: at the First Presbyter- ian church, Dayton, Oliio, 1875-76, and at the First Presbyterian church, Baltimore, Md., 1877; was instructor in New Testament literature and exegesis in the Western Theological seminary, Allegheny. Pa., 1878-79, and professor of the same, 1S79-S7, becoming in the latter year pro- fessor of didactic and polemical theology at Princeton Theological seminary, a position he still held in 1903. He was ordained evangelist by the presbytery of Eljenezer, April 26, 1879. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by the College of New Jersey, 1880, and that of LL.D.. 1^02; the latter degree also by David- son college, N.C., 1892. Dr. Warfield was a del- egate to the Council of the Alliance of the Re- formed Churches, Belfa.st. 1884, and to the Gen- eral assembly. 1800. He was one of the editors of the Presbyterian Rrr-icw. 1889, and editor-in-chief of the Presbyterian and Reformed Review, 1890- 1902. and is the author of: Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the Xew Testament (1886); Augustine's Anti-Pelagian Treatises (1887); Tico St lulies in the History of Doctrine (1893); The Right of Systematic Theology (1897); The Signi- ficance of the Westminster Standards (1898); Acta, Pastoral Epistles and Philemon, one volume of "The Temple Bible" (1902); The Pon-er of God unto Salvation (19r)3). and several tracts and pamphlets which were liberally di.stributed.


WARFIELD, Catherine Anne, author, was bom in Natchez, Mi.ss.. June G, 1816; daughter of Nathaniel Ware, and maternal granddaughter of Capt. Cliarles Percy of the British navy, who set- tled in Louisiana at an early date. Nathaniel A. Ware (1789-1854), at one time secretary of the Ter- ritory of Mississippi, published: " Views of the Federal Constitution," " Notes on Political Econ- omy ■' and a brief treatise on the Pestalozzian educational system. Catherine A. Ware re- moved with her parents to Philadelphia, Pa., where she began her education, and subsequently attended a school in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was married in 1833 to Robert E. Warfield of Lexing- ton, Ky., and after 1857 made her home on a farm in Pewee valley, near Louisville, Ky. She published, with her sister. Eleanor Percy (Ware) Lee (1820-1849), The Wife of Leon and Other Poems by Two Sisters of the West (1843); The Indian Chamber, and Other Poems (1846), and is the independent author of the following novels: The Household of Bouverie (1855; 2d ed.. 1875); The Romance of the Green Seal (1867); Miriam Monfort, or Monfort Hall (1873); and its sequel Miriam's Memoirs, or Romance of Beauseincourt; Hester Hoicard's Temptation (1873); A Double Wedding (1875): Lady Ernest iyie (1876); Sea and Shore (1876); Feme Fleming (1877), and its sequel, The Cardinal's Daughter (18-77). She died at her home near Louisville. Ky.. June 1, 1877.

WARFIELD, Ethelbert Dudley, educator, was born in Lexington, Ky., Marcli 16. 1861: son of William (q.v.) and Mary Cabell (Breckinridge) Warfield, and brother of Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (q.v.). He attended a private school in Lexington, Ky., and was graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton university), A.B., 1882, A.M.. 1885, and from Columbia Law school, LL.B., 1885. He studied at Wad- ham college, Oxford, 1882-83; was ad- mitted to the Ken- tucky bar in June.

1884, and to the New York bar in June,

1885, and practiced in Lexington, Ky., 1ns6- 88, serving as a presidential elector at large on the Harrison and Morton ticket in 1888. He was president of Miami university, Oxford, Ohio, 1888-91, also holding the chair of history: and in 1891 became president of Lafayette college, Enston, Pa., and Blair profes.sor of history and political science. He was married, first, Jan. 28,