D. D Crawford Nathaniel Macon, an American clergyman, born near Lexington, Ga., March 22, 1811, died near Atlanta, Oct. 27, 1871. He graduated at Franklin college (university of Georgia), Aug. 5, 1829, studied law and was admitted to the bar, but never practised. In 1837 he was elected professor of mathematics in Oglethorpe university, Ga., which office he held until the close of 1841. In 1843 he was licensed to preach, and was ordained in 1844. He was pastor of the Baptist church in Washington, Ga., in 1845, and in Charleston, S. C, in 1846. From 1847 to 1854 he was professor of Biblical literature in Mercer university, at Penfield, Ga., of which he became president in 1854, and in 1857 professor of mental and moral philosophy in the university of Mississippi. In the same year he became professor in the Western Baptist theological seminary at Georgetown, Ky., where he remained until July, 1858, when he resumed the presidency of Mercer university. In 1857 he was elected president of the Bible revision association. He wrote many articles for periodicals, and several small works on some of the tenets of his church.

In 1858 he published a volume entitled "Christian Paradoxes".