Papers, 1845-1879.

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...

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 ...

Foltz, Benjamin, 1810-1886

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Benjamin Foltz was born in 1810 in Frankfort, Herkimer County, New York, and educated at Oneida Seminary in Oneida, New York. He went to Lane Theological Seminary at Cincinnati to prepare for the Presbyterian ministry, joining the student band of abolitionists known as the "Lane Rebels" at Cumminsville. He accompanied the Rebels to Oberlin in 1835, enrolling in the newly-founded Oberlin Theological Seminary and graduating with the seminary's first class in 1836. He served as a minister and anti-...

Oneida Seminary

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