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S. Macauley Jackson

Professor of German Literature/Clergyman

Centurion, 1897–1912

Full Name Samuel Macauley Jackson

Born 19 June 1851 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 2 August 1912 in Washington, Connecticut

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by Marvin R. Vincent and Charles Comfort Tiffany

Elected 6 November 1897 at age forty-six

Seconder of:

Century Memorial

Samuel Macauley Jackson, a familiar figure within these rooms. Graduating from the Union Theological Seminary in 1873, ordained for the Presbyterian ministry in 1876, he was soon working in charities and Christian missions. But Church History gradually became his vocation. He was the editor of the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge, and the author of an excellent Life of Zwingli and other works.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1913 Century Association Yearbook