Edward A. Lawrence

Edward A. Lawrence, Sr., A.M., D.D. (October 7, 1808 – September 4, 1883) was a 19th-century American Congregational pastor and author. He ministered to congregations in Haverhill, Massachusetts, Marblehead, Massachusetts, and Orford, New Hampshire. He was also a professor of Ecclesiastical History and Pastoral Duty at the Theological Institute of East Windsor, Connecticut, and wrote several publications, books, pamphlets, and essays.

Biography Edward Alexander Lawrence was born at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, October 7, 1808. His parents were Hubbard and Mary (Goss) Lawrence.

Lawrence graduated from Dartmouth College, 1834, before studying divinity at Andover Theological Seminary, graduating in 1838. Dartmouth conferred the Honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1858. They had four children, three daughters and one son.

Selected works Misinterpretation of providence : a discourse delivered at Marblehead, December, 1846, on the disasters at sea, Sept. 19, 1846 / (Marblehead, Mass. : Mercury Press, 1848) A discourse on the death of Hon. Daniel Webster : delivered Oct. 31, 1852 (1852) A discourse delivered at the funeral of Rev. Leonard Woods, D.D. : in the chapel of the Theological Seminary, Andover, August 28, 1854 (1854) God in the Church the life of its history : an inaugural discourse, delivered July 20, 1854 (1854) The mission of the church : or, Systematic beneficence / (New York : American Tract Society, 1859) The life of Rev. Joel Hawes, D.D., tenth pastor of the First Church, Hartford, Conn. (Hartford, Hamersley & co., 1871) The progress of peace principles : a paper read before the Peace Congress at Geneva, Sept., 1874 / (Boston : Printed by J.F. Farwell, 1875) The life of Rev. Joel Hawes, tenth pastor of the First Church, Hartford, Conn. (1881) The illuminated valley (1883)