Papers, 1783-1869 (bulk 1816-1837).
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Massachusetts Peace Society
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Massachusetts Peace Society (1816-1838)(MPS I) was organized chiefly by Noah Worcester in 1815; MPS I participated in the founding of the American Peace Society; was absorbed into the American Peace Society between 1820 and 1845. The Massachusetts Peace Society (1911-1917) (MPS II) was founded in 1911 as a branch of the American Peace Society and was active until 1917. The object of the society was to promote international good will and peace and to educate public opinion in favor of arbitration...
Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873
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Merchant and antislavery leader. From the description of The papers of Lewis Tappan [microform], 1809-1903. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852969 Abolitionist from New York State; assisted the Amistad slaves; among the founders of the American Missionary Association in 1846, which began more than 100 anti-slavery Congregational churches throughout the Midwest, and after the American Civil War, founded numerous schools and colleges to aid in the educatio...
Gannett, Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles), 1801-1871
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American Unitarian divine. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Messrs. Monroe & Co., 1850 May 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269564796 Ezra Stiles Gannett (1801-1871) graduated from Harvard College in 1820, and from Harvard Divinity School in 1823. He served as an overseer of the University from 1835 to 1858. Ordained in 1824, Reverend Gannett became an assistant minister at the Federal Street Church (Unitarian) in Boston and became its pastor...
Mann, Horace, 1796-1859
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Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...
Parkman, Francis, 1788-1852
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Unitarian minister. From the description of Letter : Boston, to G. Adams, Cabotville [Chicopee], Mass., 1842 Sept. 10. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 665170899 Lydia Sigourney's son Andrew died in 1850. From the description of Letter, 1851 March 8, Boston, Mass., to Lydia Sigourney. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 23248341 ...
Worcester, Noah, 1758-1837
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Congregational clergyman with Unitarian views; editor of Christian disciple; of New Hampshire and Massachusetts; used Elias Monitor, Philo Pacificus, and other pseudonymns. From the description of Papers of Noah and Thomas Worcester, 1790-1835. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963941 Farmer, school teacher, minister known as "Father of the American Peace Movement." Founded the Massachusetts Peace Society and estallished the journal "The frien...
Worcester, Samuel, 1770-1821
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Samuel Worcester (1770-1821), corresponding secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. From the description of Letters to William Jenks, 1815. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38478102 ...
Tuckerman, Joseph, 1778-1840
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Clergyman. From the description of Joseph Tuckerman correspondence, 1836-1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983139 Unitarian minister and social reformer. A.B., Harvard, 1798. Minister, North Chelsea (now Revere), Mass. (1801-1826). Minister-at-large, Boston (1826-1836). Tuckerman was one of the first to call the church's attention to the growing problem of urban poverty. From the description of Papers, 1803-1840 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity Sch...
Allen, Joseph P., 1937-
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Dr. Joseph P. Allen was born June 27, 1937 in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He earned his BA in Physics and Mathematics from DePauw University (1959) and an MS and PhD in physics from Yale University (1961, 1965). A winner of a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany (1959), Allen began his career as a research associate in the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington. He also served as staff physicist at the Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale University in 1965 and 1966 and as guest re...
Ware, Henry, 1794-1843
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Henry Ware Jr., 1784-1843, born Hingham, Mass. Attended Harvard, assistant teacher at Exeter Academy. Ordained Unitarian minister in 1817 and became pastor of the Second Church of Boston. 1829-1842 professor in the Divinity School at Harvard. His memoir and works were published after his death. Wrote hymns, among them "All Nature's Works His Praise Declare" and "Lift Your Glad Voices in Triumph on High." From the description of Letter, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record i...
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
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Samuel May was a Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to anti-Slavery, temperance, and suffrage, among others. From the description of Samuel J. May diary, 1867. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64691611 Samuel May was a Unitarian Clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to Freedman's Relief, Temperance, and Suffrage, among others. From the descripti...
Ladd, William, 1778-1841
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Ship captain, farmer, pacifist, author, and clergyman, of Portsmouth, N.H., and Minot, Me. From the description of Papers, 1798-1849. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70940395 A retired Maine sea captain, William Ladd was a founder of the American Peace Society in 1828. He wrote under the pen names "Philanthropus" and "Pacificus", and published pamphlets and articles in the Friend of Peace. From the description of Collection, 1814-...
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836
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Quaker, abolitionist, founder of Brown University. From the description of Letter : Providence, R.I., to an unidentified correspondent, 1774 Dec. 1. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 29540202 ...
