John Michael Krebs (born in

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, 6 May 1804; died in New York City, 30 September 1867) was a

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clergyman of the United States. He was president of the Princeton Theological Seminary 1865-1867.

Biography

He became a clerk in the employ of his father, the

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of Hagerstown, but spent his leisure in study, and graduated from

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in 1827, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1829. From 1829 until his death, he was pastor of the

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in New York City. He held many offices in the Old-School branch of his church, and was a member of the board of foreign missions from its organization, and several years its president. In 1842 he became a director of Princeton Theological Seminary, and its president in 1865, which offices he held till his death. Dickinson gave him the degree of

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in 1841. From 1847 to 1853 he was a trustee of Lafayette College. He published sermons and religious works, ''The Private, Domestic, and Social Life of Jesus Christ: a Model for Youth'' (Philadelphia, 1849), and the ''Presbyterian Psalmist'' (1852).

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