Papers, 1819-1910.

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

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The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was among the first American Christian missionary organizations. It was created in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College. In the 19th century it was the largest and most important of American missionary organizations and consisted of participants from Protestant Reformed traditions such as Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and German Reformed churches. Before 1870, the ABCFM consisted of Protestants of several denominati...

Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

Congregational Church

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Fairchild, Grandison, 1792-1890.

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Bosworth, Edward I. (Edward Increase), 1861-1927

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Edward I. Bosworth taught New Testament language and literature at Oberlin Graduate School of Theology from 1887 to 1927, serving as the seminary's first dean (1903-23) and as acting President of Oberlin College from 1918-19. He was a popular writer on christology, and many of his writings became standard texts of the Y.M./Y.W.C.A. From the description of Papers, 1877-1934. (Oberlin College Library). WorldCat record id: 25029712 ...

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

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James Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. After embarking on an academic career, he joined the Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, and in 1863 was appointed Major General in the same regiment. He served as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1880, when he was elected President. His inauguration took place on March 4, 1881, but his term of office was unfortunately brought to an abrupt end with his assassination by C...

Fairchild, James H.

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James Harris Fairchild (1817-1902) was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Brownhelm in the Western Reserve of Northern Ohio. He graduated in the first freshman class of Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1838 and completed the theological course in 1841. He taught languages, mathematics, and systematic theology at Oberlin and was elected President in 1866, replacing Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875). Fairchild served until 1889 and died in 1902. From the description of...

Strong, Josiah, 1847-1916

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Finney, Charles G., 1792-1875

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Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875), revivalist, educator, and second President of Oberlin College (1851-65), abandoned the practice of law after a dramatic religious conversion and, following ordination in the Presbyterian Church, launched a decade of extraordinarily successful revivals in New York state (1824-33). He left the Presbyterian Church in 1836 and identified himself as a Congregationalist from then on. Finney's brand of theological perfectionism helped to make Oberlin College famous...

Fairchild, Mary Fletcher Kellogg, 1817-1890

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Fairchild, Charles G., d. 1884.

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Wright, G. Frederick (George Frederick), 1838-1921

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George Frederick was born in Whitehall, New York, in 1838. He received an A.B. degree from Oberlin College in 1859 and graduated from the Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1862. He served as a Congregational minister in Bakersfield, Vermont (1862-1872), and Andover, Massachusetts (1872-1881). In 1881 Wright returned to the Oberlin Theological Seminary where he was Professor of New Testament Language and Literature (1881-1892) and Professor of the Harmony of Science and Revelation (1892-1907). Wrig...

Strieby, Michael E. (Michael Epaphras), 1815-1899

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Fairchild, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1815-1889

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Fairchild, George T., d. 1901.

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Smith, Judson, 1837-1906

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Educator, Congregational minister; born June 18, 1837; educated at Amherst College and Oberlin College (DD, 1863); taught at Willison Seminary (1864-1866), Oberlin Theological Serminary (1866-1884), and Hartford Theological Serminary; ordained, 1866; appointed Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), 1884, and Foreign Secretary; traveled to Turkey to observe ABCFM's work there and attended the World Missionary Conference in London, 1888; visite...

Kenaston, Lucy Fairchild, d. 1912.

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