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Cadman, Samuel Parkes

CADMAN, SAMUEL PARKES: Congregationalist; b. at Wellington (30 m. n.w. of Birmingham), Shropshire, England, Dec. 18, 1864. He was educated at Richmond College, London, graduating in theology and classics in 1889, and held successive Methodist pastorates at Millbrook, N. Y. (1890–1893), Yorkers, N. Y. (1893–95), and the Metropolitan Temple, New York City (1895–1900). He then became pastor of the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn. His theological position is that of a liberal-conservative.