Author: Leland, Aaron Whitney
Biography:
Leland, Aaron Whitney (1787-1871: Hollis)
He was born in Peru MA, the son of a clergyman, John Leland, and his wife Hephzibah. His only known literary work, The Fatal Error, was a tragedy performed and published during his student years at Williams College. After graduating in 1808, he moved to Charleston SC where he became first a schoolteacher and then a Presbyterian minister. In 1809 he married Eliza Hibben; they had ten children. After her death, in 1859 he married Clara Blight. Leland served as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Charleston and then at a church on James Island. From 1833 to 1863 (when he was suddenly disabled by a stroke), he taught at the Theological Seminary in Columbia SC as Professor of Theology and later as Professor of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology. He died and is buried in Columbia. (ancestry.com 10 Nov. 2019; Joseph Bardwell, "Memorial of Aaron Whitney Leland, D.D.," Memorial Volume of the Semi-Centennial of the Theological Seminary at Columbia, South Carolina [1884] 205-9)
Other Names:
- Aaron W. Leland