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Hickok, Laurens P. (Laurens Perseus), 1798-1888

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Hickok was born in 1798 in Bethel, Connecticut. His teaching career began even before his career as a college student when he opened a small private school in Bethel. When he was twenty, Hickok entered Union College as a junior. Upon returning home he married his former student in Bethel, Elizabeth Taylor. Through this marriage he became related to Mrs. Hickok's brother-in-law, Julius Seelye. Hickok then decided to become a minister. He received no formal education in theology, but instead appre...

Campbell, S. M. (Samuel Miner), 1823-1892

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Laurens Perseus Hickok was born in Bethel, Connecticut, on December 29, 1798. After teaching school, he enrolled at Union College as a junior in 1819, and graduated the following year. He then decided he wanted to enter the ministry, and studied theology informally. He was ordained in the Congregational church in 1824. After pastorates in Kent and Litchfield, Connecticut, he became a professor of theology at Western Reserve College (now Case Western University) from 1836 to 1844, at...

Adam, Eve

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Auburn Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.)

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Founded by Presbyterians, in Auburn, New York, in 1818, Auburn Theological Seminary first prepared clergy for the American frontier and foreign missions. Faculty participated in the great social movements of the time: the struggles against slavery and for women's suffrage, temperance, and reforms that uplifted the poor. By the beginning of the 20th century, Auburn had become a prominent seminary and a center of theological inquiry. In 1939 the Great Depression forced the seminary to move from Au...