Jeremiah Rankin
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| Born | Jeremiah Eames Rankin January 2, 1828 Thornton, New Hampshire |
| Died | November 28, 1904 (aged 76) Cleveland, Ohio |
| Education | Middlebury College |
| Occupation(s) | Clergyman, university president |
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Jeremiah Eames Rankin (January 2, 1828 – November 28, 1904) was an
Esther Burr (Jonathan Edwards's daughter and mother of the third vice president of the United States, Aaron Burr
).
Rankin was born in
Charlestown, Massachusetts, Orange, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. He was awarded a doctorate from Middlebury College in 1869. From 1870 on he was closely associated with Howard University, as trustee, professor of homiletics and pastoral theology, and president. He served twice as delegate to general conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and once to the Congregational Union of England and Wales
.
In 1869 Rankin became pastor of
He collaborated in the publishing of a number of hymnals, including with E. S. Lorenz's The Gospel Temperance Hymnal (1878) and John W. Bischoff's Gospel Bells (1880).[2] Aside from his hymns, Rankin's best known poem is "The Babie", in the broguish style of Robert Burns, whom Rankin liked for their shared Scottish ancestry.
Rankin died in Cleveland, Ohio on November 28, 1904.[3]
References
- ^ Logan, Rayford W. Howard University: The first hundred years, 1867-1967. NYU Press, 1969, p. 111.
- ^ Carl P. Daw, Jr., Glory to God: A Companion (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2016), p. 1188.
- Pittsburgh Daily Post. Cleveland. November 29, 1904. p. 4. Retrieved August 1, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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