Conwell
RUSSELL HERMAN, a Baptist clergyman and educator. He was born at Worthington, Mass., in 1843 and graduated from the Yale Law School in 1860. From 1862 to 1865 he served in the Union armies in the Civil War, after which he practiced law at Minneapolis. From 1869 to 1871 he was the foreign correspondent of the New York "Tribune" and the Boston "Traveler." Returning from abroad he practiced law in Boston until 1879. In that year he was ordained a Baptist minister and two years later was called to Grace Church, Philadelphia. Dr. Conwell founded and became president of Temple University, Philadelphia, and was the author of a number of books on religious and moral subjects .