Papers, 1799-1846.

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Papers, 1799-1846.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52247699

Contains professional and family correspondence, manuscripts, a personal memoir, reports, memoranda, notes, sermons, essays, and financial records. Papers document the life of an early nineteenth-century urban church leader. Includes material on household and family matters, parishioners' personal problems, religion, church elections and business, and polemic writings related to controversies between Wilson and Lyman and George Beecher. Also includes correspondence and personal papers of Wilson's son, Samuel Ramsey Wilson.

5 linear ft.

University of Chicago Library

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University of Chicago Library

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Beecher, Lyman, 1775-1863!

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American preacher and revivalist; also famous as reformer, educator, and central figure in theological controversies; b. in New Haven, Conn.; in 1799 ordained as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in East Hampton, N.Y.; in 1810 accepted the pulpit of the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, Conn., where he attracted large crowds. In 1826 became pastor of the Hanover Street Church in Boston where his reputation for defending orthodoxy against Unitarianism became widespread. During his years ...

Beecher, George, 1809-1843

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First Presbyterian Church (Cincinnati, Ohio)

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Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

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Wilson, Joshua Lacy, 1774-1846

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Minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati. From the description of Papers, 1799-1846. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52247699 Minister. Joshua Lacy Wilson, a native of Virginia, moved with his family to Kentucky in 1781. After studying in Pisgah, Ky. in Mercer County and in Louisville, Wilson was licensed as a Presbyterian minister in 1802. He served first at churches in Big Spring and Bardstown, but moved in 1808 ...

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Presbytery of Cincinnati

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Organized by Old and New School branches of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; continued by the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.after 1958; became Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 1983. From the description of Records, 1983-1999 [microform]. (Presbyterian Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 45823150 ...

Wilson, Samuel R. (Samuel Ramsey), 1818-1886

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Joshua L. Wilson, born in Bedford County, Virginia in 1774, acknowledged, in his autobiography, a life of immoral behavior, crime and vice during his formative years. Later he became a farmer, opened a school in Frankfort, Kentucky, and in 1801 was married to Sarah Mackay of Bardstown, Ky. In 1802 he was licensed to preach, did so in Bardstown, Kentucky and moved to Cincinnati in 1808. There he preached at the First Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati with his son, Samuel Ramsey Wilso...