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Edwin Cone Bissell (1832–1894)
Bissell, Edwin Cone (bis’l). A prominent American Congregational divine and religious writer; born at Schoharie, NY, March 2, 1832; died in Chicago, April 9, 1894. Having served in the Civil War (1862–63), he became pastor in Massachusetts and California, missionary in Austria (1873–78), professor in the Hartford Congregational Theological Seminary (1881–92), and the McCormick Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Chicago (1892–94). He published ‘Historic Origin of the Bible’ (1873) and various other religious works, including a curious edition of ‘Genesis Printed in Colors, Showing the Original Sources from which it is Supposed to have been Compiled’ (1892).