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Clergy -- United States.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Massachusetts Convention of Congregational Ministers records, 1749-2019.

 Collection
Identifier: RG0767
Abstract

The Massachusetts Convention of Congregational Ministers began between 1692-94 when ministers in Massachusetts Bay met to consider contemporary issues facing their parishes. By the middle of the 20th-century, the convention became a center of religious dialogue for Massachusetts Congregational minister. The records contain meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, financial statements, photographs, and publications.

Dates: 1749-2019

Merom Institute records, 1935-1973.

 Collection
Identifier: RG4993
Abstract The Merom Institute was founded in 1936 as a Protestant ecumenical religious center offering a camp, seminars, lectures and various community activities. Located in Merom, Indiana it was the site of the previously closed Union Christian College. The Merom Institute was renamed the Merom Conference Center sometime in the late 1970s when it was taken over as a ministry of the Indiana-Kentucky UCC Conference. Arthur E. Holt, President of Chicago Theological Seminary in the 1930s, was an...
Dates: 1935-1973

Reuben A. Beard papers, 1873-1945.

 Collection
Identifier: MS5095
Abstract

Reuben Alview Beard served as a Congregational minister, with the Home Missions, and as president of Fargo College. The collection consists of clippings, brochures, photographs, programs, biographical information, and correspondence.

Dates: 1873-1945

Robert Henry Davis's Collection of papers, 1861-1910.

 Collection
Identifier: MS5280
Abstract Reverend Robert Henry Davis was born in Frederica, Delaware on August 28, 1944. He graduated with a B.A. and M.A. from Amherst College and Bangor Seminary in 1871. He would be offically ordained in 1872. In 1878 he went to work in Japan as a foerign missionary. He would be there for 8 years until returning hope in December of 1886. Afterwords, he worked as the pastor of North Conway, New Hampshire. He would spend his last years of life living with his wife in Olivet, Michigan. He would die...
Dates: 1861-1910

William Haskell Woodwell diaries, 1872-2018.

 Collection
Identifier: MS5364
Abstract

William Haskell Woodwell was born Sept 9, 1844 and served as a Congregational Minister within the North Atlantic Seabord, Hawaii, and Florida. This collection consists primarily of Rev. Woodwell's diaries, which in turn focus primarily on the weather with some notes of his personal life.

Dates: 1872-2018; Majority of material found within 1872-1911

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