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Mcilvaine, Joshua Hall

educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born March 4, 1815, in Lewis, Del. He was a presbyterian clergyman of note in the middle states who founded Evelyn college at Princeton, N. J., in 1887. He was professor of belles-lettres at Princeton college in 1860-70, and president of Evelyn college at the time of his death.

He was the author of The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; Elocution, the Sources and Elements of its Power; The Wisdom of Holy Scripture; The Wisdom of the Apocalypse; and Pastoral Directions to Inquiring Souls. He died in ) McILWAINE, RICHARD, clergyman, college president, was born May 20, 1834, in Petersburg, Va. He was secretary of home missions in 1882-83; and since 1883 has been president of Hampden Sidney college, Va.