Papers 1835-1856.

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Papers 1835-1856.

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Consists mainly of letters received by Hiram Wilson pertaining to his efforts to aid blacks in Canada. Correspondents include Charles Marryat, Josiah Henson, Elizur Wright, Jr., Erastus Child, George Whipple, and James Cannington Fuller.

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Oberlin College. Graduate School of Theology

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The Graduate School of Theology began as the Theological Department of Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1833. Academic work began in 1835 with the arrival of rebel seminarians from Lane Theological Seminary. By the 1870s, the school had become known as the Oberlin Theological Seminary. Its name changed to the Graduate School of Theology in 1916. The purpose of the seminary throughout its 133-year history was the training of ministers in a non-sectarian, non-denominational setting. The seminary cl...

Child, Erastus.

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Marryat, Charles.

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Whipple, George, 1805-1876

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British-American Institute of Science and Industry (Canada)

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Lane Theological Seminary

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Lane Theological Seminary founded 1829; merged with Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the South in 1910, retaining its own name; merged with Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Chicago in 1932, under the name: Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Chicago. The seminary suffered from financial difficulties and controversies several times: internal struggle regarding abolitionist student movements; during the Old School/New School schism; in the 1890s when Prof. Henry Preserved Smith was tried and ...

Wilson, Hiram, 1803-1864

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Hiram Wilson, reformer and missionary to black fugitives in Canada, was born in 1803 in Ackworth, New Hampshire. He attended the Oneida Institute in New York state and in 1833 went to the newly-founded Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. He accompanied the the band of student abolitionists known as the "Lane Rebels" to Oberlin, Ohio and graduated with the first class of the Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1836. He departed for Canada in the fall of 1836 with $25 given to him by evangelist C...

Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883

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Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885

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American reformer and actuary. From the description of Autograph verses signed "E. Wright," untitled : and apparently addressed to John Pierpont, [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584296 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Harper & Brothers, 1847 Jul. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584294 Elizur Wright was the first commissioner of insurance of Massachusetts (1858-1866), a post created after years of lobbying by Wrig...