Rev. Augustus Blauvelt was born on April 7, 1832, in Convert, Seneca, New York.

He was a clergyman. He studied at the Ovid Academy, graduated from Rutgers University in 1858, and the Theological Seminary in New Brunswick, N. J. in 1861. He took charge of the Bethany Chapel in Philadelphia and later became an assistant in the Madison St. Chapel in New York City, and from 1862 to 1864 he was a missionary to China. From 1866 to 1871 he was pastor at Bloomingdale, N. Y. He contributed numerous articles to the New York "Times," "The Independent," "Princeton Review," and other journals. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by Rutgers because of these articles which he wrote in defense of Christianity. Among these was a series on doctrinal subjects specially prepared for "Scribner’s Monthly," in which he admitted certain views, and in consequence, was deposed from the ministry of the Protestant Reformed (Dutch) church in 1877. Incessant labour and mental anxiety resulted in the loss of health and he became insane. Dr. Blauvelt was an occasional writer of verse and was the author of the "Kingdom of Satan" (1868) and of "The¬ Present Religious Conflict " (1882).

In 1861, he married Jane A Zabriskie. He died on April 14, 1900, in Binghamton, New York.