Samuel B. Wylie
Pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia from 1802 until his death in 1852
About Samuel B. Wylie
Lived 1773 – 1852 (aged 78–79).
Samuel Brown Wylie (21 May 177314 October 1852) was an Ireland-born oriental and classical scholar.
Wylie was born near Ballymena, on 21 May 1773. He was educated at Glasgow and removed to Philadelphia in 1797, where he became Professor of Theology in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, a position he held for more than forty years. He was Professor of Ancient Languages in the University of Philadelphia from 1838 to 1845. Besides some works of a theological character, he wrote a Greek Grammar (1838) and a Life of Rev. Alexander McLeod. He was for fifty-one years pastor of the First Reformed Church in Philadelphia, where he died on 14 October 1852, aged 79.
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pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia from 1802 until his death in 1852
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Samuel B. Wylie was born in 1773 in County Antrim.
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Samuel B. Wylie died in 1852 in Philadelphia.
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