Reformed Episcopal Church: #3: Generation 1 (1873-1900): Reformed Episco...

Early professors in Generation 1-2 (1887-1931): Bishop Hoffman, Bishop Nicolson, the Rev. Dr. Howard-Smith, Dr. Muller, Dr. Pennington, and Rev. James Gray. 

Concurrently to serving at RES, Dr. Pennington served also as the Dean and Provost of the University of Pennsylvania for 46 years, having earned his BA and PhD from UPenn. 

Dr. Max Muller was the OT and NT Prof. starting in 1890. His PhD was from Leipzig, having studied at Erlangen, Leipzig, Berlin and Munich. Concurrent to serving at RES, he was an Assistant Prof of Egyptology at UPenn and conducted numerous expeditions to the Near East under the Carnegie Institute. He was competent in Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Egyptian, and Sanskrit, contributing articles to the Jewish Encyclopedia and serving as the co-editor of Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon (still in use). He drown while vacationing at a NJ resort in 1919. 

More could be said and will be said, God willing. But, theological talent, commitment and outreach were not wanting--at all--and they affected the local region of PA, NY and NJ. Prof. W.H. Griffith Thomas supported the RES by money and the purchase of books for the seminary.