Papers, 1903-1990 (inclusive).

Rockefeller, John D., Jr. (John Davison), 1874-1960

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John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (January 29, 1874 – May 11, 1960) was an American financier and philanthropist, and the only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was involved in the development of the vast office complex in Midtown Manhattan known as Rockefeller Center, making him one of the largest real estate holders in the city. Towards the end of his life, he was famous for his philanthropy, donating over $500 million to a wide variety of different causes, including educati...

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first adult education program and shaped literary taste...

Eliot, Abigail Adams, 1892-1992

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Abigail Adams Eliot was born October 9, 1892, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the youngest child of Reverend Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1856-1945) and Mary Jackson (May) Eliot (1859-1926). Her sister, Martha May Eliot (whose papers are in the Schlesinger Library, MC 229), was head of the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor between 1951 and 1956. Her brother, Frederick May Eliot, was head of the Unitarian Association of America starting in 1937 till his death in 1958. ...

Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964

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American clergyman and reformer. From the description of The voice of God is calling : autograph poem signed, 1930 Nov. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269557327 John Haynes Homes (1879-1964) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised near Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1902 and Harvard Divinity School in 1904. He received honorary doctorates from Benares Hindu University, Rollins College, and Meadville Theological School. He served as...

Chave, Ernest J. (Ernest John), 1886-1961

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Park Avenue Baptist Church (New York, N.Y.)

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Black, Algernon D. (Algernon David), 1900-1993

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Leader of New York Society for Ethical Culture; social reformer. From the description of Papers, 1934-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155488687 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Writer, lecturer, and leader of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. A.D. Black died in 1993. From the guide to the Algernon David Black Papers, [ca. 1932]-1979., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Ethical culture leader, teacher, writer. A.B. Harvard 1923. Relig...

Elliott, Harrison S. (Harrison Sacket), 1882-1951

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Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965

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Waterman, Leroy, 1875-1972

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Bible scholar, translator, archaeologist, and professor of Semitics at University of Michigan. From the description of Leroy Waterman papers, 1887-1972. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421438 Leroy Waterman, a distinguished Bible scholar, translator and archaeologist, and an author of several books and many articles based on his archaeological and linguistic research, was a professor of Semitics at the University of Michigan from 1915 to 1945. He...

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

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MacLean, Angus Hector, 1892-1969

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Angus Hector MacLean ( 1892-1969 ) was born in Nova Scotia, Canada . He received a BA from McGill University in 1920, a BD from Montreal Cooperative Theological College in 1923, an MA from Columbia University in 1924, and a PhD from Columbia in 1930 . He also received honorary doctor of divinity degrees from Tufts University ( 1955 ), Meadville Theological School ( 1957 ), and St. Lawrence Theological School ( 1960 ). Although raised a Presbyterian, he was ordained a Universalist minister in New...

Coe, George Albert, 1862-1951

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George Albert Coe was born in Mendon, New York on March 26, 1862. He received degrees from the University of Rochester and Boston University. He was a prominent author and professor in the fields of psychology of religion, philosophy and religious education at the University of Southern California, University of Berlin, Northwestern University, Yale University, Union Theological Seminary, and Columbia University. Coe was chairman of the Committee on Militarism in Education and Honorary President...

Darling, Edward

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Kuebler, Ernest W. (Ernest William), 1903-1992

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Ernest William Kuebler (1903-1992) graduated from Kansas City Junior College in 1923, Boston University in 1929, and Yale Divinity School in 1932. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry in King's Chapel (Boston) in 1933. He served the American Unitarian Association as director of the Religious Education Department from 1935 to 1949, as executive vice president from 1949 to 1954, and as executive director of the Council of Liberal Churches from 1954 to1961. From 1945 to 1949 he was the preside...

Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Pearl S. Buck was the daughter of American missionary parents, and spent the first seventeen years of her life in China. Her third novel, The Good Earth, won the Pulitzer Prize, and a Nobel Prize for literature followed, citing The Good Earth as well as her biographies of her parents. Critical reception for her works has been mixed since these early successes. A prolific and optimistic author, most of her fiction is set in China, and she displays great affection for the place and her characters....

American Unitarian Association. Division of Education.

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Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981

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African American clergyman and author. From the description of Howard Thurman collection, 1924-1981 (bulk 1952-1967). (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70958669 ...

Union School of Religion.

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Arnold, Melvin.

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Melvin Arnold (1913- ): editor. After a career as a reporter, business editor of the Portland News Telegram, and member of the public relations department of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Arnold became in 1945 director of the Division of Publications of the American Unitarian Association and Editor-in-Chief of the Beacon Press. He resigned in 1956 to join the Religious Books Department of Harper & Brothers. From the description of Papers, 1945-1956 (inclusive). (Harvard University,...

Fahs, Sophia Lyon, 1876-1978

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Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs (1876-1978): Unitarian educator, editor, author, minister. Born in China, the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries. A.B., College of Wooster, 1897; M.A., Teacher's College, Columbia University, 1904; B.D., Union Theological Seminary, 1926. Taught religious education at Union (1927-1944). On staff of church school at Riverside Church, New York City (1933-1942). Editor of children's material for the American Unitarian Association (1937-1951). Author of many books and arti...

Brown, Jeanetta Perkins, 1887-

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Eliot, Frederick May, 1889-1958

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Frederick May Eliot (1889-1958) was born in Boston and graduated Harvard College with an AB in 1911 and an AM in 1912. He was a Harvard College instructor of government in 1912-1913 and attended Harvard Divinity School from 1912 to 1915. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry in 1915 at the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also served at the Unity Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He served as president of the Young People's Religious Union from 1916 to 1918 and served as an army ch...

Adams, James Luther, 1901-1994

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James Luther Adams (1901-1994) is considered to be the most influential theologian among Unitarian Universalists in the twentieth century. He was born in Washington and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1924, and from Harvard Divinity School in 1927. He was ordained as a Unitarian minister in 1927 in Salem, Massachusetts and he served the congregation there until 1934. He was also a minister in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts from 1934 to 1935. He taught at the Meadville Lombard Theol...

Howlett, Duncan.

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Duncan Howlett was born in 1906 in Newton, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard, receiving an LLB degree in 1931. After practicing law for two years, he returned to Harvard in 1933 to study religion, receiving an STB degree in 1936. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry in 1936 and served in churches in Salem, New Bedford, and Boston, Massachusetts. He moved to Center Lovell, Maine, and began to manage the forestland adjacent to his home. Interested in good forestry management and realizing th...

Riverside Church (New York, N.Y.)

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