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Butler, Clement Moore

theologian, author, was born Oct. 16, 1810, in Troy, N. Y. He was an episcopalian clergyman of the evangelical type, and professor of ecclesiastical history in the Episcopal Divinity school of Philadelphia in 1864-84. He was the author of Book of Common Prayer Interpreted by its History; Old Truths and New Errors; The Flock Fed; St. Paul in Rome; Inner Rome; Manual of Ecclesiastical History from the First to the Eighteenth Century; and The Reformation in Sweden. He died March 5, 1890, in Germantown, Pa.

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