Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Higbee, Elnathan Elisha

HIGBEE, Elnathan Elisha, educator, b. in Saint George, Vt., 27 March. 1830. He was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1849, completed his theological course in the seminary of the German Reformed church at Mercersburg, Pa., and in 1864 was called to take the chair of church history and exegesis there during the temporary absence of Dr. Philip Schaff in Europe. He was elected to succeed Dr. Schaff in 1866, in 1871 was made president of Mercersburg college, and in 1881 appointed superintendent of public instruction for Pennsylvania. Dr. Higbee has been a frequent contributor to the “Mercersburg Review,” a literary and theological periodical of the German Reformed church.