History of the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund, 1717-1928 : the oldest life insurance company in the world, 1928.

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History of the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund, 1717-1928 : the oldest life insurance company in the world, 1928.

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Original manuscript version with some typscript of Konkle's "History of the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund ...". The volume also includes two published annual reports, 1931 & 1940 of the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund and a newspaper clipping concerning Perry S. Allen, the president of the compnay.

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Konkle, Burton Alva, 1861-1944

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Burton Alva Konkle (1861-1944) was a history professor at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. From the guide to the Burton Alva Konkle Papers, 1925-1943, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) History professor at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. From the description of Burton Alva Konkle papers, 1925-1943 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24150826 Burton Alva Konkle was a Presbyterian minister in Phila...

Presbyterian Ministers' Fund

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5451 The Presbyterian Ministers' Fund can trace its roots to the founding of the Synod of Philadelphia around 1716. This council of Presbyterian officials, led by the Reverend Jedediah Andrews and faced with a growing community of religious followers, decided to create the "Fund for Pious Uses," a charitable venture to help finance and protect the work of Presbyterian ministers and their families. Andrews was appointed the first treasurer of the new fund. Throughout the 1720s, as Presbyterianism...