Wayland, Francis
clergyman, college president, author, was born March 11, 1796, in New York city. He was a baptist clergyman eminent as a metaphysician, and was president of Brown university in 1827-55. He was the author of Elements of Moral Science; Intellectual Philosophy; Human Responsibility; Elements of Political Economy; Occasional Discourses; Moral Law of Accumulation; Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution; Sermons to the Churches; Principles and Practice of Baptist Churches; and Letters on the Ministry of the Gospel. He died Sept. 30, 1865, in Providence, R. I.