First Parish (Cambridge, Mass.). Records, 1804-2010.

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First Parish (Cambridge, Mass.). Records, 1804-2010.

Records of the First Parish in Cambridge including committee and club records, financial records, membership lists, correspondence, orders of service, and photographs. The records span 1804-2008.

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Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847-1936) graduated from Harvard College in 1869 and Harvard Divinity School in 1872. Ordained in 1874, Peabody served the First Parish (Unitarian) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until 1879. Peabody then joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School teaching theological students Christian ethics, specializing in pioneer applications of religion to social problems. He was the Parkman Professor of Theology from 1881 to 1885 and then the Plummer Professor of Christian Mora...

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Unitarian minister. A.B. Earlham College, 1922; S.T.B. Harvard Divinity School, 1926. Minister in Lincoln, Mass. (1925-1928); Braintree, Mass. (1928-1932); Ithaca, N.Y. (1932-1935); Cambridge, Mass. (1935-1944); Chicago, Ill. (1944-1962); West Newton, Mass. (1962-1968). From the description of Correspondence, 1935-1944 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 269369123 Leslie Talbot Pennington (1899-1974) graduated from Earlham College ...

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