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KNOWLES BIOGRAPHIES
from
Appleton's Cyclopedia of
American Biography
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James Davis KNOWLES (1798 - 1838)
Clergyman
Knowles Progenitor:
William Knowles (b c 1680) - Rhode Island #02
based on article from:
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography
and Knowles research by Robert B. Noles
Additional References:
GENEALOGY
James Davis Knowles (1798 - 1838)
Edward Knowles (1768 - 1811)
Jonathan Knowles (1732 - 1815)
Edward Knowles (c 1710 - c 1745)
William Knowles (c 1680 - 1748)
[Rhode Island Knowles
Progenitor #02]
KNOWLES, James Davis, clergyman, born in Providence, Rhode Island, in July 1798; died in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, May 9, 1838.
James was placed in a printing-office at the age of twelve, and while learning the trade studied French and Latin. At the age of twenty-one he became associate editor of William G. Goddard's "Rhode Island American." Entering the Baptist Church in March 1820, he was licensed to preach in the following autumn, and studied theology in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. There he also pursued a collegiate course in Columbia College, and after graduation in 1824 was appointed a tutor.
On December 28, 1825, he was ordained pastor of the 2nd Baptist church in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1832 he was compelled by failing health to resign his charge, and from that time till his death, which was due to small-pox, he filled the chair of pastoral duties and sacred rhetoric at Newton Theological Seminary, at the same time conducting for over two years the "Christian Review," a quarterly magazine.
Besides addresses he published "Memoir of Mrs. Ann H. Judson" (Boston, 1829), and "Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode Island".
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