Luther Tracy Townsend

Reverend Luther Tracy Townsend (September 27, 1838 - 1922) was a professor at Boston University and an author of theological and historical works.
Biography.
He was born on September 27, 1838 in Orono, Maine, to Luther K. Townsend and Mary True Call. His father died on November 16, 1839, and his mother took the family to New Hampshire. He started work at the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad in 1850. He infrequently attended the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, now known as the Tilton School. He graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1859. He then attended Andover Theological Seminary and graduated in 1862. He enlisted as a private in the 16th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in 1862 during the American Civil War. He was ordained by the Methodist church, in 1864. On September 27, 1865, he married Laura C. Huckins, the daughter of David T. Huckins and Sarah F. White of Watertown, Massachusetts.
Townsend was a Christian creationist. He attacked evolution and defended the first chapters of Genesis in his books "Evolution or Creation" (1896), "Adam and Eve" (1904) and "Collapse of Evolution" (1905). He was a supporter of William Menzies Alexander's research on demonic possession.