The Cogswells in America - citizen hylbom blog

152
was installed over the church in New Britain Parish. Berlin. Conn., where he
remained until lie was called, June 21, 1834, to the Chair of Ecclesiastical
Histor}- in the Theological Institute of Connecticut, at East Windsor Hill.
He was inaugurated Professor of Church History in that Institution, May 13,
1834 In 1836 he received the degree of S. T. D. from the University of
New York. Mrs. Cogswell died in 1837. Her burial was the first that took
place within the New Cemetery near the Theological Institute of East Windsor
Hill. Of Mrs. Cogswell it was said " : She was an ornament to her sex, tiie
church and society." .\n obituary notice printed at the time passes the higli-
est encomiums on her life and character
Rev. Prof. Cogswell, D. D., married, Dec. 12. 1837, Miss Kirkpatrick,
daughter of Chief Justice Kirkpatrick, of New Jersey, and granddaughter of
Col. John Bayard, of Bohemia Manor, "Great House," Maryland In 1S42
Rev. Dr. Cogswell published "A Volume of Ten Discourses, Intended as a
Keepsake for the Family and Friends." For a full list of his published writ
ings the reader is referred to the heading James Graxt Wilson, in the third
volume of Allibone's Dictionary of Authors. Prof, ("ogswell continued to fill
the chair of .Sacred History in the Theological Institute for ten years. In
1844 life resigned, having been appointed e.\ecutor of a large estate, which
required his presence in or near the city of New \'ork, and retired from public
life to the city of New Brunswick, N. I., where he resided until his diatii,
which occurred at the age of about eiglity two years. Aug. i, 1S64, only a few
months after the decease of his wife, Mrs. Jane E. Cogswell, who died March
6, 1864. The following obitusry notice of Rev. Prof. Jonathan Cogswell. I). D..
of New Brunswick, N. J., appeared in some public journal soon after his
death :
" With reference to his character as a man. Christian liberality was his
most marked characteristic. In 1811, when the work of Foreign Missions was
awakening and giving a new direction to the pecuniary resources of the
church of Christ, he gave all the money he had to the cause, some $600 in
silver. Another instance in which this same generous spirit was maniftsted,
is furnished by his ten years of gratuitous service at East Windsor ; in addition
to which he contributed largely to the Institution, not only in money, but in
books also, giving most of his pri\ate library, and many rare old English edi-
tions of valuable works. Since his residence in New Brunswick, there has
been no change in this respect. With the late Dr. Janeway and J. R. Ford,
Esq., he aided in building the present tasteful edifice of the Second Presbyte-
rian Church, contributing a handsome proportion of the entire cost; besides
giving one half the price of the parsonage, a thousand dollars toward the permanent
support of the minister, and repeated gifts, both to the pastor and
people, up to the time of his decease. He was a Life Director of the .Ameri-
can Bible Society, and a Life Member of the .American Tract Society, the Seaman's
Friend Society, the American and Foreign Christian Union, and various
other religious societies. He founded a scholarship, both in Rutgers College
and in the College of New Jersey, and was a regular annual contributor to the