Records, 1806-1955 (inclusive).

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Records, 1806-1955 (inclusive).

Notebook of Col. Perley Putnam, compiled ca. 1806-1856, including records of the society, notes on ministers, and copies of correspondence; records, 1808-1879, including minutes, reports, financial statements; correspondence, 1807-1909, including letters from Edward Turner, Hosea Ballou, Joshua Flagg, Thomas Whittemore, Abel C. Thomas, John Greenleaf Adams, Hosea Ballou II, and Thomas Starr King; lists, clippings, and programs.

.5 linear ft. (2 boxes).

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Putnam, Perley.

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Ballou, Hosea, 1771-1852

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Universalist minister and principal leader of the Universalist denomination during the first half of the 19th century. Author of Treatise on Atonement, 1805. Minister, Dana, Mass. (1794-1803); Barnard, Vt. (1803-1809); Portsmouth, N.H. (1809-1815); Salem, Mass. (1815-1817); Second Universalist Society, Boston (1817-1852). See sketch in Dictionary of American Biography. From the description of Papers, 1810-1890 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat recor...

King, Thomas Starr, 1824-1864

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King was a popular Unitarian minister, of Boston, Mass. In 1860, he took over the parish in San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Thomas Starr King sermon notebook : ms, [18??]. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 145416609 American writer and clergyman. From the description of Letter, 1863 Apr. 29, [San Francisco, to Mr. Swain?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86130298 King was a popular Unitarian minister from Boston, Mass., wh...

Adams, John G. (John Greenleaf), 1810-1887

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John Greenleaf Adams (1810-1887) was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He married twice during his life and had one daughter and two sons. His academic pursuits brought him as far as a doctorate in divinity. He was ordained in 1833 in Rumney, New Hampshire, and was also pastor at Claremont, New Hampshire; Providence, Rhode Island; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Malden, Worcester, and Lowell, Massachusetts. He edited the New Hampshire publication Star in the East, and Massachusetts publications such as t...

Skinner, Dolphus, 1800-1869

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Turner, Edward, 1776-1853

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Edward Turner (1776-1853) was born in Medfield, Massachusetts, and became a Universalist in 1793. He studied with Hosea Ballou, and he and Ballou shared the southern Worcester County (Mass.) circuit until 1803. In 1811 he and Ballou co-founded the Gloucester Conference, a minister's colloquium for the discussion of theological questions. The Gloucester Conference published their discussions in The Gospel Visitant, which was printed by Turner in 1812. Turner was also influential in the founding o...

First Universalist Society in Salem, MA.

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Nathaniel Frothingham was the most instrumental person in the founding of the Universalist faith in Salem. He invited Reverend John Murray to preach at his home in Salem in 1805, and that same year, the Universalist Society in Salem was formally organized. Two other early Universalist leaders in Salem were Jonathan Bickford and Reverend Hosea Ballou. The first Universalist service was held in the church on May 14, 1809. On June 22 of that same year, the church was dedicated and the minister, the...

Thomas, Abel C. (Abel Charles), 1807-1880

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Flagg, Joshua, 1773-1859

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Ballou, Hosea, 1796-1861

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Universalist minister, author, educator. Minister in Stafford, Conn., Roxbury, Mass., and Medford, Mass. President of Tufts University (1854-1861). Author of The Ancient History of Universalism (1829). See sketch in Dictionary of American Biography. From the description of Papers, 1816-1861 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 269368104 Hosea Ballou II (1796-1861) was born in Vermont and was the grandnephew of Hosea Ballou. A Univer...