Walter Hilliard BIDWELL

1798 - 1881  (83 years)

• Name	Walter Hilliard BIDWELL
  Birth	21 Jun 1798	Farmington, Hartford, CT
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	1754
  _UID	6395F2D950D04ECD9681FB777C23F57F9A4B
  Death	11 Sep 1881
  Person ID	I1752	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	William BIDWELL,   b. 14 Aug 1764, Eastbury, CT d. 21 Mar 1831, Madison, Lake, OH (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Mary PELTON,   b. 30 Oct 1777, Chatham, Middlesex Co, CT d. 31 Jul 1868, Madison, Lake, OH (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	20 Oct 1796
  	Reference Number:12694
  Family ID	F398	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  [combined.ged] He was a Journalist. He graduated first from Yale college and later fr om Yale divinity school. His first pastorate was over the Congregation al church in Medfield, MA where he remained from 1833-1838, when he was fo rced to abandon the ministry on account of the loss of his voice. In 18 41 he assumed editorial charge of the American National Preacher, a Philad elphia journal, and while engaged in this work also became editor and prop rietor of the New York Evangelist, the Eclectic Magazine and the Americ an Biblical Repositor. For a short time he had charge of the American Theo logical Review. In 1867 he received from Secretary Seward the appointme nt of special US commissioner to western Asia, and he spent several mont hs in travelling through that part of the old world.