William Walker Rockwell

ROCKWELL, William Walker. b. Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 4 October 1874; d. New York City, 30 May 1958. Church historian and librarian, Rockwell attended Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts (BA, 1895), the Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Massachusetts (STB, 1900) and the University of Marburg, Germany (PhD, 1903). He was ordained by the Congregational Church at the seminary church in Andover on 5 June 1905. Rockwell was an instructor at Andover Theological Seminary (1904), and assistant professor of church history at Union Theological Seminary*, New York City (1905-1939), where he taught  medieval and modern church history: in the latter he introduced American church history to...