The Biographical Dictionary of America/Baumson, Benjamin

​BAUSMON, Benjamin, clergyman, was born at Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 28, 1824. He was educated at Marshall college. Pa., and studied theology at the seminary at Mercersburg, Pa., leaving the latter in 1852. His first pastorate was at Lewisburg, Pa. In 1858 he became editor of the Reformed Messenger. He subsequently held pastorates at Chambersburg and Reading. He was delegated by his denomination to the Reformed diet at Lubeck in 1856, and to the council of the alliance of Reformed churches at Belfast in 1884. He published: "Sinai and Zion" (1860); "Wayside Gleanings in Europe" (1876), and "Bible Character" (1893).

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