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Bidwell, Walter Hilliard

clergyman, journalist, was born June 21, 1798, in Farmington, Conn. In 1841 he began a long editorial career, conducting the American National Preacher for about nineteen years. He also edited the New York Evangelist from 1843 till 1855, and in 1846 became proprietor of the Eclectic Magazine and the American Biblical Repository. He became publisher and proprietor of the American Theological Review in 1860, and kept it till 1862, when it was incorporated with the Presbyterian Quarterly Review. He died in November, 1881.