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Samuel Davies Alexander (May 3, 1819 – ) was a
Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders, known as "presbyters". Though other Reformed churches are structurally similar, the word ''Pr ...
minister. Samuel Davies Alexander was born on May 3, 1819, in
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, son of
Archibald Alexander Archibald Alexander (April 17, 1772 – October 22, 1851) was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He served for 9 years as the President of Hampden–Sydney College in Virginia and for 39 year ...
, clergyman. He was graduated from
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in the class of 1838, and then entered the
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, being ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1847. The following year he took pastoral charge of the Port Richmond Presbyterian church in
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, Pa., remaining there two years, and removing at the end of that time to Freehold, N. J., where he preached five years. In 1855 he accepted a call to the Phillips Presbyterian church in New York City, and successfully discharged the duties of his position until 1893.
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conferred on him the degree of S.T.D. in 1862. During the last year of his life he acted as clerk of the New York presbytery. He published "Princeton College during the Eighteenth Century" (1872), and "History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland." He died in New York City, October 26, 1894.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Alexander, Samuel Davies American Presbyterian ministers Year of birth missing 1894 deaths