Papers, 1856-1891.

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...

Park, Edwards Amasa, 1808-1900

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American clergyman, theologian, and educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Andover, Mass.?], to [Andrew Preston] Peabody, [1866 Apr. 4]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 743829255 Congregational clergyman, theologian, professor at Andover Theological Seminary, editor of Bibliotheca Sacra. From the description of Papers, 1835-1899. (Andover Newton Theological School). WorldCat record id: 11667718 American theologian. From t...

Phelps, Austin, 1820-1890

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Smith, Norton, 1824-1912

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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...

Andover Theological Seminary

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Norton, Smith, 1824-1912.

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Smith Norton was born in Madison, Maine in 1824 and received the A. B. degree at Oberlin College in 1855. After studies at Anderson and Newton Theological seminaries from 1855 to 1857, he returned to Oberlin to complete his divinity course at Oberlin Theological Seminary, graduating in 1858. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry at Lebanon, Ohio in 1859, whereupon he embarked upon a forty-year peripatetic ministerial career that took him to Illinois, New York, Michigan, and Vermont. Nor...

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...

Hackett, Horatio B. (Horatio Balch), 1808-1875

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Newton Theological Institution

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