Marcus D. Buell (1875)
Born in 1851 in Wayland, NY, the son of a Methodist minister, Buell graduated from New York University before attending the School of Theology. After graduating in 1875, he served churches in the New York East Conference until 1884 when he returned to the School of Theology to become Professor of New Testament Greek and Exegesis. He was dean of the school from 1889 to 1904 and taught until 1922. He and his wife, Edith Houghton Buell, chose to live in the school’s dormitory and maintained a parental relationship with the students. In 1910, the couple wrote the words and music of the official hymn of the School of Theology, about which he said, “The School of Theology Hymn voices the mind and heart of a rare body of young men in who the agressive evangelical élan of the original Wesleyan movement still lives on.”
Works:
- Buell, Marcus D. Questions on the Greek Text of the Gospel of Mark, with Especial Reference to Grammar, Vocabulary and Style. Boston: [N.p.], 1893.
- ________.The Autographs of Saint Paul. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1912.
Sources:
- Buell, Marcus D., and Edith Houghton Buell. “School of Theology Hymn.” In Boston University Song Book, 21, 1947.
- Marsh, Daniel L., “Buell, Marcus Darius.” in Harmon, Nolan B., ed. The Encyclopedia of World Methodism. Nashville: United Methodist Pub. House, 1974.
- “Buell, Marcus Darius.” In Herringshaw, Thomas William, ed., Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-Five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits. Chicago: American Publishers’ Association, 1909.