Lyman Pierson Powell, D.D., LL.D. (1866 – February 10, 1946) was an American

United States

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 Episcopal clergyman and college president.

Biography

He was born in Farmington, Delaware

Farmington, Delaware

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. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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 in 1890, studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

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, the University of Pennsylvania

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, and the Philadelphia Divinity School where he graduated in 1897. He was ordained a priest in 1898. He became president of Hobart College

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

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 and of William Smith College (Geneva, New York

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) in 1913.

He died in Morristown, New Jersey

Morristown, New Jersey

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at the Morristown Memorial Hospital on February 10, 1946.

Publications

• The History of Education in Delaware (1893)
• Family Prayers (1905)
• Christian Science: The Faith and its Founder (1907)
• The Art of Natural Sleep (1908)
• The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town (1909)
• Heavenly Heretics (1909)
• Mary Baker Eddy: The Second Seventy
• "The social unrest; capital labor, and the public in turmoil" (1919)

Editor

American Historic Towns (four volumes, 1898–1902); Current Religious Literature (1902); Devotional Series (three volumes, 1905–1907); Religion in our Colleges and Universities.