George Emlen Hare

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George Emlen Hare (1808-92) was an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman, born in Philadelphia.

He graduated at Union College in 1826, was rector of St. John's, Carlisle, Pa. (1830-34), of Trinity Church, Princeton, N. J., (1834-43), and of St. Matthews, Philadelphia (1845-52). In 1844-45 he was professor of Latin and Greek at the University of Pennsylvania. He had had charge of the Episcopal Academy during a part of his pastorate at St. Matthew's and was made instructor in the diocesan training school and, after its development into the Philadelphia Divinity School, a professor of biblical learning, and then (1881) of New Testament literature in the latter institution. He wrote Christ to Return (1840) and a volume of sermons, Visions and Narratives of the Old Testament (1889).

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