Skip to main content

Woods, Abigail

 Person

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Woods Family papers, 1796-1896.

 Collection
Identifier: MS1009
Abstract Leonard Woods was born in Princeton, Massachusetts and eventually graduated from Harvard in 1796. He was ordained at Second Church of West Newbury, Massachusetts on December 5, 1798; He held onto that position until May 25, 1808 to become Professor of Theology at the Andover seminary and stayed there until his resignation in 1846. Leonard Woods received his Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth in 1810 and another D.D. soon after from Nassau Hall. He played a role in the Unitarian controversy in...
Dates: 1796-1896