Forman Family Papers, 1808-2011

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Forman Family Papers, 1808-2011

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Letters, writings, notes, and collected materialdocument the life and work of three generations of the Forman family. CharlesWilliam Forman was an American Presbyterian missionary in North India from 1847to 1894. His son, Henry Forman, served as a missionary in North India from the1880s to 1924. Charles W. Forman, son of Henry and grandson of Charles William,taught at a seminary in India for five years prior to beginning his career asprofessor of missions at the Yale Divinity School, where he served from 1953 tohis retirement in 1987. An addendum includes information about the FrederickMarsh family, into which Douglas Forman, grandson of Charles William Forman,married.

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Yale University.

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Forman Christian College (Lahore, Pakistan)

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Forman, Charles W

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Charles William Forman was born on March 3, 1821 in Washington, Kentucky. After entering the family business manufacturing hemp, he was converted at a revival meeting when he was twenty years old. He felt burdened for the salvation of slaves on Kentucky plantations and tried to establish a ministry for them, but without success. He attended Centre College in Kentucky and then Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained as a Presbyterian minister on July 7, 1847 and on the same d...