May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
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Samuel May was a Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to anti-Slavery, temperance, and suffrage, among others.
Samuel May was a Unitarian Clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to Freedman's Relief, Temperance, and Suffrage, among others.
Samuel J. May was a Unitarian Clergyman of Syracuse, New York, an Anti-slavery, temperance, and woman's rights activist and in contact with most of the major figures of those movements in the United States and abroad.
Samuel Joseph May (1797-1871) was an American Unitarian minister and civil libertarian, one of the founders of the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832 and of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833; he also worked for women's rights.
Samuel Joseph May was an American Unitarian minister and civil libertarian, one of the founders of the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832 and of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833; he also worked for women's rights.
Samuel May was a Unitarian Clergyman of Syracuse, New York, with connections to national organizations related to Anti-Slavery, Temperance, and Suffrage, among others.
Samuel J. May, a Unitarian minister, was an active abolitionist, education reformer, and women's rights advocate. He assembled the May Anti-Slavery Collection and gave it to Cornell University.
Samuel May was a Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to freedmen's relief, temperance, and suffrage, among others.
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American clergyman.
Samuel Joseph May was a Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse, New York, in contact with most of the major figures in the temperance, woman's rights, anti-slavery, and Freedman's relief movements.
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American reformer who championed multiple reform movements including education, womens' rights, and abolitionism.
Samuel J. May, a Unitarian Clergyman of Syracuse, New York, was an anti-slavery, temperance, and woman's rights activist and in contact with most of the major figures of those movements in the United States and abroad.
May was a Unitarian clergyman and social reformer who advocated women's rights, temperance and abolition of slavery.
Samuel May was a Unitarian Clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to Anti-Slavery, Temperance, and Suffrage, among others.
Samuel Joseph May (1797-1871) was a Unitarian minister, pacifist, abolitionist, and social and educational reformer. He graduated from Harvard University in 1817 and then attended divinity school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a brief stint in Boston, he accepted the invitation of the Brooklyn, Connecticut Congregational church (the only Congregational body in Connecticut to embrace liberal theology). He later ministered for many years in Syracuse, New York, at what is now known as May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society. He advocated and organized on behalf of freedom and civil rights for blacks, emancipation and voting rights for women, and just rights for workers. His progressive and liberal beliefs meant that he was often at odds with ministerial colleagues, church members, and the public at large.
When he died, Andrew D. White, then president of Cornell University, spoke of him as "the best man, the most truly Christian man, I have ever known."
[Portions of this biographical sketch adapted from the Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography and from the Harvard Square Library's online article, "Unitarianism in America." ]
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