Lyman Pierson Powell

Lyman Pierson Powell (1866 – February 10, 1946) was an American Episcopal clergyman and college president.

Biography

He was born in Farmington, Delaware. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1890, studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Divinity School where he graduated in 1897. He was ordained a priest in 1898. He became president of Hobart College and of William Smith College (Geneva, New York) in 1913.

He died in Morristown, New Jersey at the Morristown Memorial Hospital on February 10, 1946.

Publications

• The History of Education in Delaware (1893)
• Family Prayers (1905)
• Christian Science: The Faith and its Founder (1907)
• The Art of Natural Sleep (1908)
• The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town (1909)
• Heavenly Heretics (1909)
• Mary Baker Eddy: The Second Seventy
• "The social unrest; capital labor, and the public in turmoil" (1919)
• Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait (MacMillan, 1930)

Editor

• American Historic Towns (four volumes, 1898–1902): Southern States, Western States
• Current Religious Literature (1902); Devotional Series (three volumes, 1905–1907)
• 'Religion in our Colleges and Universities.

External links

• Works by Lyman Pierson Powell at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Lyman Pierson Powell at the Internet Archive