Walter Hilliard Bidwell

The two years after graduation were employed in extinguishing the debts incurred by his college course; in 1829 he entered the Yale Divinity School, and was licensed to preach in the spring of 1833.

He had previously married Susan M. Duryea, of New York, and on account of her feeble health spent with her a year in England and France.

In the beginning of 1841 he began editorial life as the conductor of the American National Preacher, which—with the omission of some years—he continued to edit until 1867, 19 years in all.

In April 1843, he became the proprietor and nominal editor of the New York Evangelist; he retained this connection for nearly twelve years, when he was obliged to relinquish it on the temporary failure of his health In the meantime (1846) he became the proprietor and conductor of the American Biblical Repository, and also of the Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature; the former periodical passed out of his hands in 1849, but the latter he conducted in person until 1868.

After retiring from active employment, he removed to Oberlin, Ohio, being attracted by the earnest religious life which he found there.