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Cressey, George Croswell

educator, clergyman, author, was born April 1, 1856, in Buxton, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin college, the university of Wooster, the university of Leipzig, and the Andover Theological seminary; and has received the degree of Ph. D. For a while he was engaged in educational work, and filled the chair of modern languages in the Washburn college. He is a successful clergyman of the Unitarian church; and now fills the pastorate in Northampton, Mass. He is the author of The Essential Man; Mental Evolution; Philosophy of Religion; The Doctrine of Immortality of Liberal Thought; and numerous published sermons and addresses. was

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