Reverend John Mason Ferris

Graduated from the U. of the City of New York 1843, studied theology at the New Brunswick seminary 1846 49 and was licensed to preach in the Dutch Reformed church 1849; Pastor of the Second Dutch Reformed Church of Tarrytown NY from 1849 1852; Dr. Ferris was involved in the movement to erect the new monument to the captors of Andre at Tarrytown and participated in the dedication by reading the Declaration of Independence; late in the fall of 1854, Rev. Ferris resigned, in order to accept an appointment as a pastor of the Board of Domestic Mis¬sions to labor as a domestic missionary in Chicago 1854 62; pas¬tor Grand Rapids, Mich. 1862 65; professor Western Theology Semi¬nar, Holland, Mich. 1865 65; D.D. Rutgers 1867; appointed secretary of the Board of Domestic Missions, Reformed Dutch Church, New York 1865 83; treasure of same 1886; he became editor of the "Christian Intelligencer" in 1883, and treasurer of the Foreign mission board in 1886; he was the author of a "History of Foreign Missions", published in the "Manual of the Reformed Church" in 1869 and 1879; later resided at Brooklyn and Flatbush, L.I. Ferris Genealogy records at the Brooklyn Museum.

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