Introduction

Biography

Isaac was the son of Ed­ward Eras­tus Ran­kin and Em­i­ly Wat­kin­son, and hus­band of Mar­tha Clark.

He gra­du­at­ed from Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty (AB 1873, AM 1876) and Un­ion Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry (BD 1877).

The 1880 cen­sus list­ed him as a cler­gy­man in Hart­ford, Con­nec­ti­cut.

Works

He was li­ter­ary ed­it­or of The Con­gre­ga­tion­al­ist in Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

His other works include:

• Closet and Al­tar, 1899, 1910
• Great Men and Their Bi­bles, 1900
• Hewers of Wood, with Will­iam G. Pud­de­foot, 1903
• Harriette Car­ter, 1915
• The Ser­vice Song Book: Pre­pared for the Men of the Ar­my and Na­vy (Young Men’s Chris­tian As­so­cia­tion, 1917)
• The Brook­lyn So­cie­ty of Etch­ers: Ex­hi­bi­tion of 1917–1918 (So­cie­ty of Am­er­ican Graph­ic Ar­tists, 1918)
• Prayers and Thanks­giv­ings for a Chris­tian Year, 1918
• Little Pilg­rim­ag­es with the Pil­grims, 1920