William Craig Brownlee
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William Craig Brownlee (1784-1860) was an American clergyman. He was born in Torfoot, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and studied at the University of Glasgow. After holding several pastorates in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, he became professor of Latin and Greek at Rutgers College in 1825. In the following year he was installed as one of the ministers of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch church in New York City. He edited the Dutch Church Magazine (four volumes) and published a number of independent works, among which are:
- Inquiry into the Principles of the Quakers (1824)
- The Christian Youth's Book (1844)
- Treatise on Popery (1847)
- Lights and Shadows of Christian Life (1847)
He founded the Philoclean Society at Rutgers.
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