Isaac Errett

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Isaac Errett (January 2, 1820 – December 19, 1888) was an American clergyman and editor who helped lead the Restoration Movement in its early days.

Born in New York City to parents who were converts of Alexander Campbell, Errett became a preacher in 1840. He served as a pastor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; New Lisbon, Warren, and North Bloomfield, Ohio; Detroit, Muir, and Ionia, Michigan; and Chicago. He worked with Alexander Campbell on the Millennial Harbinger, and in 1866 he started the Christian Standard in Cleveland, which became the leading weekly paper of the movement.

In 1868 he was elected president of Alliance College in Alliance, Ohio, but soon resigned and settled in Cincinnati, where he continued to publish the Christian Standard. He received an LL.D. from Butler University in 1886. He was corresponding secretary of the Ohio Christian Missionary Society from 1853 to 1856 and served as its president from 1867 to 1870. He was corresponding secretary of the General Christian Missionary Society from 1857 to 1860 and its president from 1874 to 1876, and he led the foreign mission society from 1875 to 1886.

Selected works include Debates on Spiritualism with Joel Tiffany (1855); A Brief View of Missions (1857); Walks about Jerusalem (1871); Talks to Bereans (1872); Letters to Young Christians (1875); and Evenings with the Bible, two volumes (1884, 1887). He also wrote numerous pamphlets.

Family: His brother Russell Errett was a United States Congressman.