Alexander White Pitzer

Alexander White Pitzer (1834–1927) was an American Presbyterian clergyman.

Biography

Alexander White Pitzer was born in Salem, Virginia, on September 14, 1834. He was graduated at Hampden–Sydney College in 1854, and at the Danville Theological Seminary, Kentucky, in 1857, after which he was pastor of Presbyterian churches in Leavenworth, Kansas, Sparta, Georgia, and Liberty, Virginia, and in 1808 organized in Washington, D. C., the Central Presbyterian church, of which he was still pastor in 1898.

From 1875 he was also professor of biblical history and literature in Howard University in that city. He was a member of the Prophetic convention in New York City in 1878, and assisted in drafting and reported the doctrinal testimony adopted by the conference. He took an active part in promoting the union of the northern and southern divisions of his church. He received the degree of D. D. from Arkansas College in 1876.

He died on July 22, 1927 and is buried at East Hill Cemetery in Salem, Virginia.

Works

In addition to numerous contributions to denominational literature, he is the author of Ecce Deus Homo, published anonymously (Philadelphia, 1867); Christ, Teacher of Men (1877); and The New Life not the Higher Life (1878).

References

• Prince, Harold B, ed. (1983), A Presbyterian Bibliography: The Published Writings of Ministers who Served in the Presbyterian Church in the United States During Its First Hundred Years, 1861-1961, and Their Locations in Eight Significant Theological Collections in the U.S.A. (illustrated ed.), Scarecrow Press, p. 259, ISBN 9780810816398

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Pitzer, Alexander White" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.