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Born in New Hampton, New Hampshire, Gordon graduated from Brown University (1860) and Newton Theological Institution (1863).!
Adoniram Judson Gordon
American preacher and hymnwriter
Adoniram Judson "A.
J." Gordon (1836–1895) was an American Baptist preacher, writer, composer, and founder of Gordon College and Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary.
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Gordon was born in New Hampton, New Hampshire, on April 19, 1836. His father, Baptist deacon John Calvin Gordon, was a Calvinist named after John Calvin. His mother was Sally Robinson Gordon. A.J. Gordon was named after Adoniram Judson, a Baptist missionary to Burma who had recently completed a Burmese translation of the Bible.[1]
Gordon experienced a Christian conversion at age 15 and thereafter sought to become a pastor.
He married Maria Hale about 1862, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
He graduated from Brown University (then a Baptist affiliated school) in 1860 and Newton Theological Institution in 1863. In 1863, he married Maria Hale and became pastor of Jamaica Plain Baptist Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
In 1869, he became pastor of Clarendon Street Baptist Church in Boston, a fairly affl