The life of James McCosh
Subtitle: a record chiefly autobiographical.
By: Edited by William Milligan Sloane.
Contributors: Sloane, William Milligan, 1850-1928, ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1896
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: McCosh, James, 1811-1894; Princeton University -- Presidents -- Biography; Free Church of Scotland -- Clergy -- Biography; Philosophers -- Scotland -- Biography; Philosophers -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: James McCosh (April 1, 1811 - November 16, 1894) was born of a Covenanting family in Ayrshire, and studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, obtaining his M.A. at the latter, at the suggestion of Sir William Hamilton, for an essay on stoicism. He became a minister of the Established Church of Scotland in 1834, serving as pastor first at Arbroath and then at Brechin. He sided with the Free Church of Scotland in the Disruption of 1843, becoming minister at Brechin's new East Free Church. In 1850 or 1851 he was appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Queen's College, Belfast (now Queen's University Belfast). In 1868 he travelled to the United States to become president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He resigned the presidency in 1888, but continued to teach philosophy until his death. - Wikipedia.