The New International Encyclopædia/Jacobus, Melancthon Williams (clergyman)

JACOBUS, Melancthon Williams (1855—). An American clergyman and educator, born in Allegheny City, Pa., a son of the preceding. He graduated at Princeton in 1877, at the Theological Seminary there in 1881, from 1881 to 1884 studied at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin, and from 1884 to 1891 was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Oxford, Pa. In 1891 he was appointed to the chair of New Testament exegesis and criticism in the Hartford Theological Seminary. He became a trustee of Princeton in 1890, and was Stone lecturer at the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1897-98. He has contributed articles on New Testament subjects to The New International Encyclopædia.