The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Schermerhorn, Martin Kellogg

SCHERMERHORN, skĕr'mėr-hôrn, Martin Kellogg, American Unitarian clergyman: b. Durham, N. Y., 20 March 1841. He was educated at Williams College and at Union Theological Seminary, was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1867, held Unitarian pastorates in 1871-84 and Protestant Episcopal rectorships in 1885-96 and returned to the Unitarian ministry in 1897. He has published ‘Ancient Sacred Scriptures’ (1882); ‘Sacred Scriptures of the World’ (1898); ‘Thoughts for the Twentieth Century’ (1900); ‘Universal Worship’ (1904); ‘World-Religion’ and ‘World-Religion Hymns and Prayers’ (1914), etc.