Diaries, 1848-1889.

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Diaries, 1848-1889.

Includes information relating to Finley's career as a teacher and clergyman, including his service as president of Van Rensselaer Academy, Mo. (1851-1856), principal of Brookfield Academy and pastor of Brookfield Church, Brookfield, Mo., and work at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., during the Civil War. Includes material relating to the schism in the Presbyterian Church.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8340428

Presbyterian Historical Society, PHS

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Finley, Jonathan Palmer, 1822-1889

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Presbyterian clergyman and teacher. From the description of Diaries, 1848-1889. (Presbyterian Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 86123191 Jonathan Palmer Finley; appointed as president of Van Rensselaer Academy in Missouri in 1851. Finley left in 1856 and worked for Westminster College in Missouri where he remained during the Civil War. Finley later became pastor for a church in Brookfield, Missouri in 1868 and took on the additional responsibility of principal of Broo...

Brookfield Church (Brookfield, Mo.)

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Presbyterian church in the U.S.A.

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The Transylvania Presbytery was organized by appointment of the synods of New York and Philadelphia. The Synod of New York made part of the Presbytery of Abingdon into the Transylvania Presbytery, which encompassed the district of Kentucky and the settlements on the Cumberland River. The Reverend David Rice, Adam Rankin, Andrew McClure, and James Crawford met at the Danville, Kentucky courthouse to organize the presbytery. The synods of New York and Philadelphia appointed David Rice as moderator...

Van Rensselaer Academy (Rensselaer, Mo.)

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Westminster College Fulton, Mo

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Brookfield Academy (Brookfield, Mo.)

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