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Francis Wayland: preacher-economist.(PREDECESSORS)(Biography)
Independent Review
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January 1, 2006|
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One of the nineteenth-century's great but long-forgotten works of political I economy was not written by a politician or an economist, but by a Baptist minister. Francis Wayland was born in New York City in March 1796 and died in Providence, Rhode Island, in September 1865. He was an author, a preacher, a teacher, a pastor, and an administrator.
Although Wayland was the son of a Baptist minister of the same name, he studied medicine after his graduation at a young age from Union College until his religious conversion and call to the ministry. He underwent another ...
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