Born: No­vem­ber 22, 1852, New York Ci­ty.

Died: June 15, 1936, Brook­line, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Rankin grad­u­at­ed from Prince­ton Un­i­ver­si­ty (AB 1873, AM 1876) and Un­ion The­o­lo­gi­cal Sem­in­a­ry (BD 1877), and was li­ter­a­ry ed­it­or of The Con­gre­ga­tion­al­ist in Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts. The 1880 cen­sus list­ed him as a cler­gy­man in Hart­ford, Con­nec­tic­ut. His works in­clude:

• Hewers of Wood, with William G. Pudde­foot

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1. Light of the World’s Dark Story