Daniel Whedon
Commentary
Historical encyclopedia or collection description, reproduced from the supplied edition.
Editorial note: The supplied source truncates the death year to “185”. Daniel Whedon died on June 8, 1885: the Red Bank Register obituary published on Wednesday, June 10, 1885 reports his death on Monday. The original wording is retained here with this correction. Red Bank Register, June 10, 1885, page 1.
Editorial note: The phrase “alnza mater” in the supplied biography (WHC_AUT.PDF, physical page 46) is a typographical corruption of “alma mater,” referring here to Hamilton College. The defective wording is preserved in the historical paragraph. Parallel McClintock and Strong transcription (also retains the defect).
An eminent Methodist Episcopal divine, was born at Onondaga, N.Y., March 20, 1808. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1828; studied law in Rochester for a year, and then became teacher in Cazenovia Seminary; in 1831 tutor in his alnza mater; in 1833 professor of languages in Wesleyan University, Connecticut; in 1834 joined the New York Conference; in 1842 was transferred to the Troy Conference, and stationed in 1843 at Pittsfield, Massachusetts; in 1845 became professor of rhetoric in the University of Michigan; in 1855 pastor at Jamaica, L.I.; in 1856 editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review, a position which he retained until 1884. He died at Atlantic Highlands, N.J., June 8, 185. Dr. Whedon was noted for his incisive, vigorous style, both as preacher and writer, and was remarkably powerful in controversy. He wrote very largely for the denominational press, and prominent among his works are a Treatise on the Will (New York, 1864), and a Commentary on the New Test. (1860-80, 5 volumes, 12mo). See Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, 1882, page 29:656.
Excerpted from McClintock & Strong’s Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature
Wesleyan Heritage Collection, Authors, pp. 46–46