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Andrew Wylie
April 12, 1789 - November 11, 1851
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Andrew Wylie, clergyman and educator, was born April 12, 1789 in Washington, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Adam Wylie, a native of County Antrim, in the north of Ireland, who emigrated to this country about the year 1776, and settled in Fayette County, PA.
He graduated from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1810, was tutor in the college for a year, studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Ohio on October 21, 1812. He was installed as pastor at Miller's Run on June 23, 1813. He was president of Jefferson College in 1812-1816, and of Washington College in 1817-1828. He was elected president of Indiana College and removed to Bloomington, Indiana and took charge of the institution in 1829.
He changed his ecclesiastial relations in 1841, and was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church in New Albany in December, 1841, by Bishop Kemper, and priest in Vincennes, Indiana, in May, 1842, by the same bishop. He received the degree of D. D. from Union college in 1825. Dr. Wylie published several sermons on special occasions (1816-'51); "English Grammar" (1822), "Eulogy on General Lafayette" (1834), "Sectarianism is Heresy, with its Nature, Evils, and Remedy" (3 parts, 1840). He contributed freely to reviews and magazines, and left at, his death ready for publication works on " Rhetoric" and "Advice to the Young."
His death took place November 11, 1851.
Sources:
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Wilson, James Grant & John Fiske, eds. Appletons' Cyclopędia of American Biography, D. Appleton. NEW YORK 1888-1889
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Myers, Burton D. Officers of Indiana University, 1820-1950. p. 447.
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