[192-104b] REV. ADONIRAM JUDSON ROWLAND, same as above, m 2nd time, Oct. 29, 1878, KATE S. HIRSHEY, b Oct. 29, 1855; dau David and Anna (Stitler) Hirshey. Clergyman; widow resides at 4423 Spruce St., Phila., Pa. (1922.)
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The Rev. Dr. A. Judson Rowland was born at Valley Forge, Pa. In 1862 he was graduated with first honors from Bucknell University, whereupon he served as a chaplain in the U.S. A. for one year. In 1863 he entered Rochester Theological Seminary and three years later completed the course.
His first pastorate was at the Mount Auburn Baptist Church of Cincinnati. Im 1870 he came to Pittsburgh and for two years served the First Baptist congregation. Then for twelve years—from 1872 to 1884—Dr. Rowland oceupied the pulpit of the Tenth Baptist Church in Philadelphia. As pastor of the Franklin Square Baptist Church, he went to Baltimore in 1884 and remained there until 1895 when he was made general secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society. Dr. Rowland held this latter office until 1917, when he was appointed acting treasurer of the same Society.
In his lifetime, Dr. Rowland contributed to many denominational organs, and was the author of “A Handbook on the Pentateuch”’ (1895). From 1890 to 1900 he acted as editor of “Our Young People,’’ and was likewise the editor of the ‘‘Senior Quarterly,’ a Baptist publication, from 1883 to 1895. He served the S. 8. Council of the Evangelical denominations as its first president.
For many years, Dr. Rowland was the secretary of Bucknell University, which institution conferred on him at various times the degrees of A. M., D.D., and LL.D.
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