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Edwin Harwood, D.D.(August 21, 1822 – January 12, 1902) was an American clergyman, theologian, historian, and most notably, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green for 36 years.

Biography
Harwood was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1822, the eldest child of Lilburn Harwood and Sarah Anne Pierson. Something of an intellectual prodigy, he was tutored by John Sanderson, the author of "The American in Paris," who guided him through the "Collectanae Graeca Majora", a work of "about 800 to 1000 pages of selections from the greatest of the Greek writers, with several hundred pages of Latin notes". His studies at such an early age led him to read the early Christian writers of the Church in their own language, and to later "carry on a conversation in Latin with scholars abroad".

He entered the University of Pennsylvania and at age 14 and graduated at age 18 in the class of 1840. He was influenced by Henry Reed, who published the first American edition of Wordsworth. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied under Henry Reed, a brilliant disciple of Wordsworth, graduating at age 18 in 1840.

After having acquired a solid background in modern poetry and the classics, as well as a working knowledge of Latin and Greek, he then entered Andover Theological Seminary, intending to become a minister in the Presbyterian Church. It was a time of turbulent theological controversies: the Oxford Movement, the Tubingen School, and new Biblical scholarship and thought stirred through the seminaries of America. These ideas provoked a radical change in Harwood’s religious opinions. In 1742, he transferred from Andover to the Episcopal General Theological Seminary in New York, graduating in 1844, and was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church. by Bishop B. T. Onderdonk June 30, 1844. Harwood would later say that "he was a member of the only class of candidates ever ordained without an examination, the controversies at the seminary not giving the professors any time in which to hold one."

He was placed in charge as rector of Christ Church in Oyster Bay, Long Island from 1844 to 1846. He was ordained a preset in the Episcopal Church on June 21, 1846 by Bishop William Delancey,, and became rector of then St. Paul's Church Eastchester. He then was rector of St. James' Episcopal Church, Manhattan, from 1847 to 1850, then assistant minister of Grace Church, Manhattan, and in 1852 a founder and rector of the newly organized chapel, now the Church of the Incarnation, Episcopal, Manhattan.

In 1853 – not surprisingly, given his assignments of six churches in nine years – his health broke: "Under the most imperative commands of his physicians he was carried hastily on board ship and sent alone on a long voyage to Europe, the greater part of the time spent in Italy", where his health began to improve immediately. In 1854, after a happy year in Italy, Harwood returned and became Professor of the newly established Literature and Interpretation of the Scriptures in the Berkeley Divinity School, established that year in Middletown, Connecticut. There he known for his wide reading and "graceful scholarship". .

In 1859 he was called to become the rector of the large and important parish of Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green, New Haven, Connecticut. He continued as rector for thirty-six years, until retiring in 1895.

At Trinity he was known for expanding the music program, the church building, and social outreach programs. Organ and choral music were "in a period of ascending importance in church services throughout nineteenth century America, and Trinity joined the movement with alacrity." Harwoord organized the purchase of a large new organ, a choir of men and boys, created a Episcopal Charity Society for women, a church school, built a parish house, a chapel, a home for elderly woman, a school, and expanded Trinity Church by adding a chancel in 1885 to the front of the church. 

He also broadened his concerns beyond his parish. After attending the sixth meeting of the English Church Congress in York, England in 1866, In 1874 he organized the American Church Congress of the Episcopal Church: he was elected a deputy from Connecticut to the General Convention of 1877 and to six succeeding triennial conventions where he played an active role on various committees. In 1900, he was appointed chairman of a committee to act with the bishop in sending an address from the diocese to the venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel on its two hundredth anniversary.

In 1862, Trinity College in Hartford, awarded him a doctorate of divinity.

His published works include only occasional sermons and addresses; among the latter are two on the early history of the Episcopal Church in New Haven, to the study of which he had given much attention. He also translated a part of Lange’s commentary for the American edition. He was a constant student, a careful writer, and a thoughtful and earnest preacher; and, in every particular showing the scholar, his sermons had

Spouse

He married Marion Eckford DeKay, (1822-1901), the daughter of James E DeKay MD of New Haven.

Children

Alida VanSchaick Harwood                    1861-1885

Honora Irving Harwood Heminway                    1863-1900

Dr Harwood married Miss Marian Eckford by whom he had a family of three daughters and one son.  By a better account six children<

He was a member of the New Haven Colony Historical Society of the Society of Biblical Exegesis of the Archaeological Society of America He was also one of the translators and editors of Lange's Commentary on the Bible author of Essays on Archbishop Tillotson and on the Historic Episcopate

the Rev. Edwin Harwood who was, at the time, professor of medieval Church history at the Divinity School in Middletown. Dr. Harwood accepted at a salary of $3000 and moved to New Haven, bringing with him some of the most astonishing intellectual baggage that the old town had yet seen. In stunning contrast to his

Death and Legacy
Harwood died in New Haven, Conn. January 12, 1902. ddd

His biographer the Rev. Dr. Frank Woods Baker, he successor at Trinity wrote:

Like most men Dr. Harwood had his strong and his weak sides. He cared little for ordinary parochial and pastoral duties. They were irksome to him. He loved his books and he loved to preach and he was always ready to impart the treasures of his thought to his chosen friends in the seclusion of his study. He was always a staunch friend to the younger clergy. In an age of over-organization, when most rectors are overwhelmed by the great increase of necessary details connected with their office, and are obliged, almost, to steal the time for study, the memory of the erudition of such men as Dr. Harwood should serve as a stimulus to greater scholar-ship and to more earnest and fearless application of the old truths to the ever changing conditions of the times. p.2

A more recent biographer, Edward Getlein, was more balanced:

By the time he came to Trinity, in 1859, the Episcopal Church could boast few equals to Mr. Harwood in breadth of background and depth of scholarship. How well this prepared him for pastoring a flock is, perhaps, a moot point; yet he was well received, widely respected, and functioned as rector for 25 years before having an assistant. p. 17

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It is not fitting that one should dwell upon the long tragedy of that private life; upon those sorrows so heavy and so sacred which came to him. Again and again the blow fell until his six children, his entire family, were called away. The last one was taken but a short time since."

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Published works
Harwood, Edwin, A Contribution to the Church Question: An Essay, Read before the Associate Alumni of the General Theological Seminary., New York: Stanford and Swords, 1851.

The Relation of the Incarnation to the Progress of Human Thought: An Oration before the Connecticut Beta of the Phi Beta Kappa, at Trinity College, Hartford, July 27th, 1853. Hartford: Tiffany and Co., 1853.

Harwood, Edwin, The Causes of Filial Impiety: A Sermon, Preached in St. Paul's Church, New Haven, Conn., Sunday, October 12th, 1856.,New Haven: W.H. Stanley, 1856.

Harwood, Edwin, The New Civilization and the New Speculative Thinking: An Address before the Society of the Alumni, of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Dec. 22, 1859., Philadelphia: King and Baird, 1860.

Harwood, Edwin, The Pre-eminence of Jesus Christ, or, The Order in Things to be Believed: A Sermon before the Seventy-eighth Convention of the Diocese of Connecticut, in St. John's Church, Bridgeport, June 10th, 1862.New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1862.

Harwood, Edwin, Canaan, Shem and Japheth: A Sermon Preached in Trinity Church, New Haven, Sunday October 25, 1863.,New Haven: Published by Thomas H. Pease, 1863.

Harwood, Edwin, An Address Made in Trinity Church, New Haven, All Saints' Day, Sunday, November 1, 1863, Commemorative of the Late Frederick Croswell., New Haven: Thomas J. Stafford, Printer, 1863.

Harwood, Edwin, The Protestant Episcopal Church in New Haven and for New England: A Sermon Preached at the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Consecration of Trinity Church, New Haven, Wednesday, February 16th, 1866., New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, 1866.

Harwood, Edwin, In Memory of William Augustus Muhlenberg, D.D., LL.D.: A Discourse., New York: T. Whittaker, 1877.

Harwood, Edwin, The Historic Episcopate and Apostolic Succession, a Paper Read before the Church Congress, Louisville, October, 1887., New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1887.

Harwood, Edwin, Phillips Brooks, Late Bishop of Massachusetts: An Address Delivered in Trinity Church, New Haven, Sunday, February 19, 1893.By Edwin Harwood., New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor, 1893.

Harwood, Edwin, The Beginnings of the Episcopal Church in New Haven: A Discourse Delivered in Trinity Church, New Haven December 30, 1894., New Haven: Published by the Wardens and Vestry, 1895.

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