Welch, Ransom Bethune, Dd, Lld

Welch, Ransom Bethune, D.D., LL.D.

a Presbyterian educator, was born at Greenville about 1825. He graduated from Union College in 1846, and from, Auburn Theological Seminary in 1852. In 1854-59 he was the pastorate. In 1866-76 he was professor of rhetoric, logic, and English literature in Union College, and since 1876 professor of theology in Auburn Theological Seminary. He died June 29, 1890. He was the author of Faith and Modern Thought (1876): — and Outlines of Christian Theology (1881). See Appletons' Cyclop. of Amer. Biography.