1870–1952

Introduction

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Born: Jan­ua­ry 26, 1870, Potts­ville, Penn­syl­van­ia.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 18, 1952, New York.

Buried: Wood­lands Ce­me­te­ry, Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia.

Biography

Longacre gra­du­at­ed from the Co­lum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty School of Mines (1892), and Drew Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry (BD 1896).

Ordained a Me­tho­dist min­is­ter, he pas­tored in the New York Con­fer­ence (1896–1910). He then be­came head of the De­part­ment of Old Tes­ta­ment Li­ter­a­ture and Re­li­gion at the Il­iff School of Theo­lo­gy, where he served ov­er three de­cades.

Works

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Music