Albert Elijah Dunning

Albert Elijah Dunning
Albert Elijah Dunning
Born	January 5, 1844; Brookfield, Connecticut
Died	November 14, 1923 (aged 79); Brookline, Massachusetts
Burial place	Walnut Hills Cemetery
Education	Bryant & Stratton College; Yale University; Andover Theological Seminary; Beloit College;
Occupation	Theologian
Spouse	Harriet W. Beekman (m. 1870)

Albert Elijah Dunning (January 5, 1844 – November 14, 1923) was an American Congregationalist theologian.

Biography

He was born in Brookfield, Connecticut and attended the Fort Edward Institute (1860–1861). He graduated from Bryant & Stratton College (1862) and Yale University (1867), where he was Phi Beta Kappa and a member of Skull and Bones. Additionally, he graduated from Andover Theological Seminary (1870), and Beloit College (1889) with a DD.^[1] He was pastor of the Highland Congregational Church in Roxbury, Boston (1870–1881). He was editor of The Congregationalist (1889–1911) and Pilgrim Teacher (1873–1877). He was author of Bible Studies (1886); Congregationalists in America (1894); and The Making of the Bible (1911).

He married Harriet W. Beekman on December 27, 1870.^[1]

He died at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts on November 14, 1923, and was buried at Walnut Hills Cemetery.^[1]^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c Obituary Record of Yale Graduates 1923-1924 (PDF). Yale University. August 1, 1924. pp. 1018–1019. Retrieved March 3, 2023.
^ "Rev Dr A. E. Dunning Dies in Brookline". The Boston Globe. November 15, 1923. p. 2. Retrieved March 3, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

"Albert Elijah Dunning." Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale Biography In Context. Web. March 30, 2011.