Albert Elijah Dunning was an American theologian.

Born in Brookfield, Connecticut

Brookfield, Connecticut

Brookfield is a town located in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 16,452 at the 2010 census. First settled in 1710 by John Muirwood and several other colonial founders who bartered for the land From the Wyantenuck Nation Under the Sachem Waramaugs who lived...

, he attended the Fort Edward Institute (1860-1861), and graduated from Bryant & Stratton College (1862), Yale University

Yale University

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 (1867), where he was Phi Beta Kappa and a member of Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior class 'landed societies' at Yale....

, Andover Theological Seminary (1870), and Beloit College

Beloit College

Beloit College is a liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA. It is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, and has an enrollment of roughly 1,300 undergraduate students. Beloit is the oldest continuously operated college in Wisconsin, and has the oldest building of any college...

 (1889) with a DD

Doctor of Divinity

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. He was pastor of the Highland Congregational Church

Congregational church

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 in Roxbury, Boston (1870-1881). He was editor of The Congregationalist (1889-1911) and Pilgrim Teacher (1873-77). He was author of Bible Studies (1886); Congregationalists in America (1894); and The Making of the Bible (1911).