Church of the Covenant (New York, N.Y.)

The Sunday and Adult School Union was established in Philadelphia in 1817 and in 1824 changed its name to the American Sunday-School Union. The society published educational pamphlets and established Sunday schools throughout the United States in an effort to encourage religious education.

William S. Sedwick (1836-1866), the son of a Baptist minister, worked at New York City's Howard Mission before moving to Kentucky as a missionary for the American Sunday-School Union. He became the Sunday school agent for Kentucky in 1865 and was particularly successful in his work with children. That same year, Sedwick left the organization to open a home for war orphans, and he also founded the Children's Aid Society. His replacement, Otis Patten (1821-1893), had previously co-founded the Kentucky School for the Blind and resumed this work after his brief tenure with the American Sunday-School Union in Kentucky.

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