Buttz, Henry Anson

BUTTZ, HENRY ANSON: American Methodist Episcopalian; b. at Middle Smithfield, Pa., Apr. 18, 1835. He was educated at Princeton College (B.A., 1858), and held pastorates at Millstone, N. J. (1858–59), Irvington, N. J. (1859–60), Woodbridge, N. J. (1860–61), Mariner's Harbor, Staten Island (1862–63), Prospect Street Church, Paterson, N. J. (1864–66), and Morristown, N. J. (1867–1869). He was also instructor in Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J., in 1867, becoming adjunct professor of Greek and Hebrew in 1868, and professor of New Testament Greek and exegesis two years later. Since 1880 he has been president of the seminary. He has edited, in addition to a number of briefer studies: The New Life Dawning by B. H. Nadal (New York, 1873) and The Epistle to the Romans in Greek (1876).