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Bartlett (SAMUEL COLCORD an American)

SAMUEL COLCORD, an American educator, born in Salisbury, N. H., Nov. 25, 1817; was educated at Dartmouth College, teaching there and at Andover; was pastor of a church at Monson, Mass.; subsequently Professor of Philosophy in Western Reserve University, Ohio. He afterward became pastor of a church at Manchester, N. H., and later of the New England Church in Chicago. In 1858 he was made Professor of Biblical Literature in the Chicago Theological Seminary, where he remained until 1873. In 1877 he became president He was author of "From Egypt to Pales- tine" (1879), and also wrote a part of He was author of "From Egypt to Palestine" (1879), and also wrote a part of "Smith's Dictionary of the Bible." He died in Hanover, N. H., Nov. 16, 1898.