Robert Davidson (educator)

Robert Davidson
Born1750 Edit this on Wikidata
Died1812 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 61–62)
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Robert Davidson (1750–1812) was an American educator.

Life

Davidson was born in Elkton, Maryland. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1771, was appointed instructor there in 1773, and in 1774 was given the chair of history and belles-lettres. [1]

In 1774, Davidson was also licensed to preach, and a year later was ordained by the second Philadelphia presbytery, becoming Dr. Ewing's assistant in the first church. In 1775, he composed a metrical dialogue, which was recited at commencement before the Continental Congress, and in July of the same year, one month after the battle of Bunker Hill, delivered before several military companies a sermon from the text “For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God.” [1]

In 1777, the occupation of Philadelphia by the British compelled Davidson to retire to Delaware. In 1783, Davidson was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.[2] In 1784 he was appointed vice-president of the newly organized Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and given the chair of history and belles-lettres there, also acting as pastor of the Presbyterian church in Carlisle. He held this last office for the rest of his life, and succeeded in harmonizing a discordant congregation. In 1794 he preached twice before troops on their way to suppress the whiskey insurrection, and in 1799 delivered a eulogy of Washington. After Dr. Nisbet's death in 1804, Davidson discharged the duties of president of the college till 1809, when he resigned.[1]

Davidson had a reputation as a scholar, but was especially interested astronomy, and invented a cosmosphere or compound globe. He was also a skillful draughtsman, and was a composer of sacred music. Besides sermons, he published an “Epitome of Geography, in Verse,” for the use of schools (1784); “The Christian's A, B, C,” or the 119th psalm in metre, each stanza beginning with a different letter (1811); and a “New Metrical Version of the Psalms,” with annotations (1812). [1]

Davidson died on December 13, 1812.

Family

His son, Robert Davidson, clergyman, b. in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1808; d. in Philadelphia, April 6, 1876, was graduated at Dickinson College in 1828, and Princeton Theological Seminary in 1831. He was pastor of the second Presbyterian church in Lexington, Kentucky, from 1832 to 1840, and in 1840 year became president of Transylvania University there. After his resignation in 1842, he held pastorates in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1843-1859, New York City in 1860-64, and Huntington, Long Island, in 1864-68, moving again to Philadelphia in the latter year. Davidson was for a quarter of a century a member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, was permanent clerk of the General Assembly in 1845-1850, and in 1869 was a delegate to the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, in Edinburgh.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Wilson & Fiske 1900.
  2. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  3. ^ "Robert Davidson (1750-1812), University of Pennsylvania Archives". www.archives.upenn.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-06-15.

References

Religious titles
Preceded by
The Rev. John McKnight
 Moderator of the 8th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
1796–1797 		Succeeded by
The Rev. William Mackay Tennent

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