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Mercer, Alexander Gardiner, D.D.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1817. He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1837, and studied one year in Princeton Theological Seminary; became rector of St. John's Church, Clifton, N.Y., in 1847; in 1853 professor in the University of Pennsylvania; in 1855 rector of Trinity Church, Newport, R.I.; in 1860 assistant at Trinity Church, Boston; in 1862 rector of All- Saints' Chapel, Newport, where he remained until his death, November 3, 1882. See Necrol. Report of Princeton Theol. Sem. 1883, page 43.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Mercer, Alexander Gardiner, D.D.'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​m/mercer-alexander-gardiner-dd.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.