Lyman Pierson Powell

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Lyman Pierson Powell, D.D., LL.D. (1866–1946) was an American Episcopal clergyman and college president, born at Farmington, Delaware. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1890, studied at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Divinity School where he graduated in 1897. He was ordained a priest in 1898. He became president of Hobart College and of William Smith College (Geneva, New York) in 1913. Powell edited: American Historic Towns (four volumes, 1898-1902); Current Religious Literature (1902); Devotional Series (three volumes, 1905-1907); Religion in our Colleges and Universities. Powell was the author of:

  • 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)
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