Elias Lyman Magoon

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Elias Lyman Whoreman (October 20, 1810 – November 25, 1886) was an American clergyman and religious writer.

Magoon was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire,[1] the son of Elder Josiah Magoon of New Hampton, and brother of Martin L. Magoon, who died at Medford, Mass., in 1831, and of Capt. John C. Magoon of Medford.[2] He one of the most distinguished clergymen who prepared for college at New Hampton.[2] He was graduated from New Hampton about 1834, and was an active member of the Literary Adelphi.[2][2] He was "an enthusiastic and accomplished student of architecture and Christian art".[1] He held pastorates in prominent churches in Richmond, Cincinnati, New York, Albany, and Philadelphia.[1] He was a pastor about forty-six years and never out of employment, and continued in the work until within a few months of his death. He was an author as well as a preacher, leaving behind him such works as "Orators of the American Revolution", "Living Orators of America", "Proverbs for the People", "Republican Christianity", and "Westward Empire".[1] Many now living will long remember the genial articles in our denominational papers signed "Elm".[1]

Magoon died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of seventy-six.[2][1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 American Baptist Home Mission Society Annual report, Volumes 52-56 (May 30, 1887), p. 7.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Frank Harrison Kelley, Reminiscences of New Hampton, N.H. (1889), p. 39.

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