Fisher, Samuel W. - The Purpose of God, in the Early Death of the Christian, Illustrated: A Sermon, Occasioned by the Death of Miss Mary S. Dwight, a Teacher in the Albany Female Academy, Delivered in the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Albany, on Sabbath, March 2, 1845

Albany, Erastus H. Pease, 1845. Paper wrappers. 32 pp. Sm. 4to. Samuel Ware Fisher ( 1814-1874) "graduated at Yale in 1835, and he entered Princeton theological seminary, but after two years went to the Union theological seminary, New York City, where ha was graduated in 1839. Before leaving the seminary he was called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church in West Bloomfield, now Montclair, New Jersey he was pastor there for three and a half years, and then for four years in Albany, where he achieved a high reputation as a pulpit orator. From Albany he was called in 1847 to Cincinnati. as a successor to Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher. This pastorate he always considered the most effective work of his ministry, but resigned in 1858 to accept the presidency of Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. Here his scholarship, his eloquence, and his executive ability effected a more liberal endowment and increased efficiency" (Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography). Mary Sherrill Dwight (1822-1845) was the orphaned daughtersof Rev. Edwin Welles Dwight. Very good minus, wrappers edge worn, lightly soiled, light dampstaining, foxing to contents.