John Jay Butler

John Jay Butler (April 9, 1814 – 1891) was an ordained minister and theologian in the early Free Will Baptist movement in New England, serving as Professor of Systematic Theology at Cobb Divinity School at Bates College in Maine and later at Hillsdale College in Michigan.

John Jay Butler theologian at Bates College and Hillsdale College

Biography

He was born in Berwick, Maine and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1837. Following his graduation, he began teaching, including for several months as an assistant teacher in the Parsonsfield Seminary. Butler graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1844 and then became a professor of systematic theology in the Whitestown Seminary at Whitestown, New York from 1844 to 1854 in the school's graduate department, which later became known as Cobb Divinity School at Bates College. In 1854 when the school moved to New Hampshire he continued to hold the professorship of systematic theology in the seminary at New Hampton, New Hampshire for 16 years, and starting in 1870 at Bates College at Lewiston, Maine for 3 years when the school moved there. In 1860, Bowdoin College granted him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

In 1873, Butler was appointed chair of Hebrew Language and Literature at Hillsdale College where he taught until his death in 1891.[1]

In 1834, Butler became the assistant editor of The Morning Star, a Free Will Baptist publication.

He was also the author of several notable theological works:

Collections and Researches Made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, Vol. XXXII. Lansing, MI: Robert Smith Printing Co. 1903. p. 457.

History of Bowdoin College: With Biographical Sketches of Its Graduates, from 1806 to 1879; J. R. Osgood & Co., 1882
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans; John Howard Brown, 1904

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