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Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728; A.B. 1678, Harvard College; A.M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow) was a New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. He left a scientific legacy due to his hybridization experiments and his promotion of inoculation for disease prevention, though he is most frequently remembered today for his involvement in the Salem witch trials. He was subsequently denied the presidency of Harvard College which his father, Increase Mather, had held
Robert Cotton Mather
Robert Cotton Mather (1808–1877) was an English missionary in India.
Life.
The son of James Mather, a congregational minister, he was born at New Windsor, Manchester, on 8 November 1808, and educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow universities, and Homerton College. After his ordination at Lendal Chapel, York, on 1 June 1833, he went to India as an agent of the London Missionary Society.
Mather had the pastorate of the Union Chapel, Calcutta, for a few months