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Thomas (JESSE BURGESS American)

JESSE BURGESS, American clergyman; born in Edwardsville, Ill., July 29, 1832; was graduated at Kenyon College in 1850; practised law law in Chicago, Ill., in 1857-1862; was ordained in the Baptist Church; pastor of the First Baptist Church, Brooklyn , N. Y., in 1864-1869 and 1874-1888 and of the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church , Chicago, 1869-1874. He accepted the chair of Church History at Newton Theological Institution in 1888. He was the author of "The Old Bible and the New Science"; "The Mould of Doctrine"; and "Significance of the Historical Element in Scripture." He died in 1915.