First Parish (Cambridge, Mass.). Records, 1834-1912.

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First Parish (Cambridge, Mass.). Records, 1834-1912.

Records of the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts, including financial records, membership, funeral, wedding, and christening records, annual reports, and committee records. The records span 1834-1912.

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A church was formed in Cambridge in 1633, but in 1636 the minister and many members removed to Hartford, Conn. A new church was gathered that year. In 1829 the church separated into Unitarian and Trinitarian bodies, the Unitarians retaining the name of First Parish in Cambridge. From the description of Records, 1658- (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 269368754 The first Meeting House was built in 1632 and Thomas Hooker became the first minist...

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Lowe, Charles

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The author and journalist Charles Lowe was born in 1848 in Balconnel, Angus. He was educated in Brechin, Angus, and studied at Edinburgh University and in Jena and Paris, graduating with an Edinburgh M.A. in 1871. Lowe was then entered at Gray's Inn to follow a legal career no doubt, and then joined the editorial staff of The Times as a foreign sub-editor. He was appointed as Berlin correspondent in the late 1870s and returned to London in 1891. His publications include Prince Bismarck: an histo...

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Special students were those who took courses in Harvard College but were not degree candidates; they had not gone through the standard admissions process completed by AB degree candidates. From the description of Records of special students, 1876-1907. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77064523 It is unclear whether F.C. Fabel ever attended Harvard College. F.C. Fabel may be Frederick Charles Fabel, who received an AB from the University of Rochester in 1893. ...