Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Doolittle, Theodore Sandford

DOOLITTLE, Theodore Sandford, educator, b. in Ovid, Seneca co., N. Y.. 30 Nov., 1836; d. in New Brunswick, N. J., 18 April, 1893. He was graduated at Rutgers in 1859, and at the seminary in 1862, and in that year was licensed to preach in the Reformed Dutch church, and became pastor at Flatlands, near Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1864 he accepted the chair of rhetoric, logic, and metaphysics at Rutgers, which he held for thirty years, becoming also associate editor of the “Christian at Work” in 1873. Wesleyan university gave him the degree of D. D. Dr. Doolittle frequently lectured on art and literature. Besides articles in periodicals, he published an “Account of the Centennial Celebration of Rutgers College” (1870), and a “History of Rutgers College,” written for the Bureau of education at Washington. In 1875 he contributed to the “Christian Intelligencer” a series of letters entitled “Across the Continent.”