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Mcmaster, Erasmus Darwin

clergyman, educator, college president, was born Feb. 4, 1806, in Mercer, Pa. He became president of South Hanover college, Indiana, in 1838, but resigned in 1845 to accept the presidency of Miami university. After four years' service in that institution he was made professor of systematic theology in New Albany Theological seminary, and from 1866 till his death, a few months afterward, occupied the same chair in the Theological seminary of the northwest, Chicago, Ill. He died Sept. 11, 1866, in Chicago, Ill.