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Ezra Palmer Gould
Born(1841-02-27)February 27, 1841
Boston, Massachusetts
DiedAugust 22, 1900(1900-08-22) (aged 59)
White Lake, New York
Burial placeMount Auburn Cemetery
Education
OccupationClergyman
Spouse
Jenny M. Stone
​
(m. 1868)​
Children2

Ezra Palmer Gould (February 27, 1841 – August 22, 1900) was a

Baptist and later, Episcopal, minister, He graduated Harvard University in 1861 and subsequently served in the Civil War. He entered the ministry in 1868. His commentary on the Gospel of Mark continued to be reprinted in the International Critical Commentary
series.

Early life, family, and education

At Harvard, c. 1861

Ezra Palmer Gould was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 27, 1841, to S. L. Gould and Frances Ann Shelton Gould.[1][2] He attended Harvard University, graduating in 1861, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was married September 1, 1868, to Jenny M. Stone, and had two children, Herbert Shelton and Edith Parker.

Military service

Shortly after his graduation, he enlisted as a private in the

Antietam.[3] He was then commissioned as second lieutenant of the 55th Massachusetts Volunteers on October 15, 1863, and subsequently commissioned as a captain with the 59th Massachusetts Volunteers.[4] While commanding the 55th Massachusetts during the Battle of the Wilderness, he was wounded in the left arm and hand, and ultimately lost the little finger on that hand.[3]

Seminary education and work

Upon leaving his military service in 1865, he entered

Baptist seminary, graduating three years later, and immediately becoming professor of New Testament Literature and Interpretation, a position which he held until 1882.[3] That year, he was "unseated" from his faculty position as his "theological views had become unsatisfactory." His dismissal was considered "a theological sensation in 1883."[5]

In 1889, he assumed a similar position at the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia, which he held for nine years, and was ordained into the Episcopal priesthood on February 18, 1891.[1]

He died in White Lake, Sullivan County, New York, on August 22, 1900, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.[2]

Pastorates

Publications

Books

  • Gould, Ezra Palmer (1887). Commentary on the Epistles to the Corinthians. American commentary on the New Testament. Vol. 5. Philadelphia, PA: American Baptist Publication Society.
    OCLC 4013243
    .
  • ——— (1896). A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to St. Mark.
    OCLC 950442
    .
  • ——— (1900). The Biblical Theology of the New Testament. New Testament handbooks. New York & London: Macmillan.
    OCLC 8989053
    .
  • ——— (1897). The Modification of Christianity by its Contact with the World. Publications of the Church Social Union. Vol. 34. Boston, MA: Church Social Union (U.S.) Office of the Secretary.
    OCLC 20139998
    .

Journal articles

References

  1. ^ a b Harvard College Class of 1861, Sixth Report. New York. 1902. pp. 23–24.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ a b "Recent Deaths: Prof. Ezra P. Gould". Boston Evening Transcript. August 25, 1900. p. 4. Retrieved April 22, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b c Harvard College Class of 1861, Fifth Report. New York. 1892. pp. 52–53.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Brown, Francis H. (1886). Harvard University in the War of 1861-1865. Boston: Cupples, Upham, and Co. pp. 166.
  5. ^ Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, Ernest DeWitt Burton: A Biographical Sketch (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1926), p.19.
  6. ^ Anstice, Henry (1911). History of St. George's Church. New York: Harper & Brothers. pp. 468.

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