First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn records Bulk, 1833-1967 1790-1970s

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First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn records Bulk, 1833-1967 1790-1970s

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The First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn records contains documents created and collected by the Church from the point of its founding in 1833 to the mid 1970s. The collection contains a broad range of documents covering the variety of the Congregation's work and operations including its official minutes and trustee records, financial records, ministers files, sermons, photographs, calendars, celebration programs and registers, and building records that include deeds, leases, and building plans for the Church of the Saviour and other buildings owned by the First Church. The community and charity work of the Church is represented as well through ledgers, correspondence, notes and reports by the various clubs and committees and through similar documentation from the Church's Willow Place Chapel where the Church's settlement and welfare programs and Sunday school operated. The Church was also involved with local and international relief and aid groups, particularly during the tenure of Minister John H. Lathrop. Lathrop's files include correspondence, minutes of committees, and other documents from his work with a variety of local and worldwide religious and humanitarian groups. Lathrop also collected a variety of reference materials, including pamphlets, flyers, and articles pertaining to peace, liberalism, theology, and family planning. Other major figures of the First Church and Brooklyn history represented by the collection include the Low family and Alfred T. White. The collection also holds scrapbooks with relevant collected clippings that were donated by parishioners and photographs of some church members and activities. The Second and Third Unitarian Congregations are both represented within this collection as well. These two congregations split from the First Congregation at different points in the 19th century and both re-united with the First Congregation in the mid-1920s. The variety of records relative to these congregations is similar to that of the First Congregation including trustee records, building records, finances, minister files, clubs and social work, and Sunday school records. The documents related to these congregations also include the record books of their respective Women's Branch Alliances.

50.5 Linear feet; In 99 manuscript boxes and 18 oversize flat boxes

Center for Brooklyn History (2020-)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6329039

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Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862-1950

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Samuel Atkins Eliot earned his Harvard AB 1884. He served as secretary to the President of Harvard from 1884-1885 and as Preacher to the University 1906-1909. He was the son of Harvard President Charles W. Eliot. From the description of Harvard memorabilia of Samuel Atkins Eliot, Class of 1884, 1876-1909 (inclusive), 1876-1885 (bulk) (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77063916 American Unitarian clergyman and historian. From the description of Samuel A. El...

Staples, N. A. (Nahor Augustus), 1830-1864

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Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)

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Collier, H. Price

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Willow Place Chapel (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.).

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Low, Abiel Abbot, 1811-1893

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Lafever, Minard

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American Association of the Red Cross. Brooklyn Chapter.

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Third Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

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Putnam, A. P. (Alfred Porter), 1827-1906

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American Unitarian Association

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Camp, Stephen H.

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Chadwick, John White, 1840-1904

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Furman Street Mission (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.).

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Forbes, John P.

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Low, Seth, 1782-1853

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New York merchant. From the description of Letter : Albany, N.Y., to Messrs. Seth Low & Co., New York, N.Y., 1847 July 15. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28328452 ...

Longfellow, Samuel, 1819-1892

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Longfellow was an Unitarian clergyman and hymn writer. He was the younger brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. From the description of [Poem, Mar. 1877] / Sam.l Longfellow. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 245202647 American clergyman and hymn writer; brother of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. From the description of Autograph postal card signed : [Boston?], to A.V. Anthony, [postmark 1887 Mar. 12]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 649496781 America...

Farley, Frederick A. (Frederick Augustus), 1800-1892

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American Committee on Religious Rights and Minorities

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Holland, Frederick W.

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Masaryk, Jan, 1886-1948

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White, Alfred Tredway, 1846-1921

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Lathrop, John Howland, 1880-1967.

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Unitarian minister. From the description of Reminiscences of John Howland Lathrop : oral history, 1953. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309736505 In June 1833, forced between choosing a ferry ride to Unitarian services in Manhattan or attending services of a different denomination in Brooklyn where they would be refused communion, a group of ten men (John Frost, Josiah Dow, George Blackburn, William H. Carey, William H. Hale, H...

Church of the Saviour (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.).

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International Association for Liberal Christianity and Religious Freedom

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First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

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In June 1833, forced between choosing a ferry ride to Unitarian services in Manhattan or attending services of a different denomination in Brooklyn where they would be refused communion, a group of ten men (John Frost, Josiah Dow, George Blackburn, William H. Carey, William H. Hale, Henry Leeds, Seth Low, Alexander H. Smith, and Charles and Thomas Woodward) set to forming a Unitarian society in Brooklyn. The First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn was incorporated two yea...

Second Unitarian Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

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Masaryková, Charlotta G. (Charlotta Garrigue), 1850-1923

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National Peace Conference (U.S.)

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