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Loomis, Augustus Ward, D.D.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a Presbyterian minister, was born at Andover, Connecticut, September 4, 1816. After graduating from Hamilton College in 1841; and Princeton Theological Seminary in 1844, he became missionary to China, 1844-50; missionary to the Creek Indians, 1852-53; in regular pastoral work, 1853- 59; and in 1859-91 missionary to the Chinese in San Francisco, where he died, July 26, 1891. He was the author of Learn to Say No (1856): Scenes in Chusan (1857): How to Die Happy (1858): Scenes in the Indian Country (1859): A Child a Hundred Years Old (ibid.): Profits of Godliness (ibid.): Confucius and the Chinese Classics (1867): Chinese and English Lessons (1872).

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Loomis, Augustus Ward, D.D.'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​l/loomis-augustus-ward-dd.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.