The Biographical Dictionary of America/Atwater, Lyman Hotchkiss

ATWATER, Lyman Hotchkiss, educator, was born at New Haven, Conn., Feb. 20, 1813. He was graduated from Yale college in 1831, and after three years' study in Yale theological seminary he went to Fairfield, Conn., where for twenty years he had charge of the Congregational church, leaving in 1854 to accept the chair of mental and moral philosophy at Princeton college. In 1869 he was made professor of logic and of moral and political science. He contributed extensively to current literature and was for a number of years editor of the Princeton Review. He was the author of "Manual of Elementary Logic" (1867). He died Feb. 17, 1883.