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Philo Carpenter—Illinois' first pharmacist, managing director of the Chicago Bible Society, abolitionist, school board member, board of health member, organizer of the Relief and Aid Society, and co-organizer of American Anti-Slavery Society. Otis Moss III—Pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ (D.Min., 2012)
In 1971 this church, founded in 1952, purchased a former Methodist, Carpenter Gothic whose construction was started in 1905. Mount Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church: 1959 founded 2000 building built 55 Eckley Lane Walnut Creek, California: Certified membership 2012-13 was 455. [17] Unitarian Meetinghouse: 1771 built 1972 NRHP-listed
The EUB supported several colleges and universities including Otterbein University (1847) at Westerville, Ohio; Plainfield College (now North Central College) (1861) at Naperville, IL; Westfield College (1865) at Westfield, Illinois; Leander Clark College (1857) at Toledo, Iowa; York College (1890) at York, Nebraska; Western Union College (1900 ...
The name was changed to MacMurray College for Women in 1930 to honor James E. MacMurray, who was an Illinois state senator, president of Acme Steel Corporation in Chicago, and college trustee whose commitment led to a substantial increase in the college's facilities and endowment in the late 1920s and 1930s.
This new institution had two subsidiary units: Lincoln College, the newly renamed, Lincoln-based campus formerly known as Lincoln University, and the Decatur College and Industrial School, a new campus to be established in Decatur. This arrangement leveraged the existing resources of Lincoln University to establish a wholly new college in Decatur.
It contains Jubilee College State Historic Site, a frontier Illinois college active from 1840 to 1862. The entire Jubilee College site is still owned by the state of Illinois. The 90-acre (36 ha) grounds are operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (IHPA), and the surrounding 3,100 acres (1,300 ha) of open space are operated by the ...
The Congregational Christian Churches was a Protestant Christian denomination that operated in the U.S. from 1931 through 1957. On the latter date, most of its churches joined the Evangelical and Reformed Church in a merger to become the United Church of Christ. [1]
The Universalists of Elgin, Illinois first founded a church in the city in 1866. The building, Unity Hall, was erected on the same site as the present church. The National Watch Company factory was also completed that year, and the two institutions have since had an intertwined history. Silvanus Wilcox, a member of the church, was one of four ...