Humphrey, Edward Porter, Dd

Humphrey, Edward Porter, D.D.

a Presbyterian minister and educator, was born at Fairfield, Connecticut, January 28, 1809. He graduated from Amherst College in 1828, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1833. He was a pastor until 1853, when he became professor of church history in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Danville, Kentucky, remaining there until 1866, when he became pastor at Louisville. He was made pastor emeritus in 1879. He died December 9, 1887. In 1861 he was associate editor of the Danville Review. See Appletons' Cyclop. of Amer. Biography.