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Spencer, Jesse Ames

clergyman, educator, author, was born June 17, 1816, in Hyde Park, N. Y. He is an episcopal clergyman and educator, professor in the College of the City of New York in 1869- 83, and editor of many valuable classical text-books. His other works include, History of the English Reformation; History of the United States, a very popular work; Sermons; Discourses; The East: Sketches of Travel in Egypt and the Holy Land; Greek Praxis; Five Last Things; Studies in Eschatology; Papalism vs. Catholic Truth; and Memorabilia of Sixty-Five Years, 1820-86.