Chamberlain, Leander Trowbridge
CHAMBERLAIN, LEANDER TROWBRIDGE:
American Presbyterian; b. at West Brookfield,
Mass., Sept. 26, 1837. He was graduated at Yale
in 1863, and from 1863 to 1867 was attached to the
Pacific Squadron of the United States Navy. During
this period he made explorations in the Inca
civilization of ancient Peru. He studied theology
at Andover 1867–69, and was pastor of the New
England Congregational Church, Chicago, 1869–76,
of the Broadway Congregational Church, Norwich,
Conn., 1876–83, and of the Classon Avenue Presbyterian
Church, Brooklyn, 1883–90. Since 1890 he has
had no charge. He was the first United States representative
secretary of the McCall Mission of France, a
delegate to the Centennial of Sunday-schools in London
in 1880, and a delegate of the General Assembly
of the United States to the Pan-Presbyterian
Council in the same city in 1888, a founder of the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, a representative
of the United States Evangelical Alliance
to the General Conference of Evangelical Alliances
in Florence, Italy, in 1891. He is also president
of the Evangelical Alliance for the United States,
of the Philafrican Liberator's League, and of the
Thessalonica Agricultural and Industrial Institute,
Macedonia; secretary and treasurer of the American
and Foreign Christian Union; vice-chairman
of the national committee on arbitration between
the United States and other countries; custodian
and patron of the collection of gems in the National
Museum, Washington; and curator of Eocene mollusca
in the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
In theology he is a Calvinistic Presbyterian.
He has written: A Short History of the
English Bible (Norwich, Conn., 1881); Citizen's
Manual (New York, 1898); The State, Its Origin,
Nature, and Functions (1898); The Colonial Policy
of the United States (1899); Patriotism and the
Moral Law (1900); Evolutionary Philosophy (1901);
Government not Founded in Force (1904); The Suffrage and Majority Rule (1904); and The True
Doctrine of Prayer (1906).