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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
Lombard College was founded in 1853 by the Universalist Church as the Illinois Liberal Institute.In 1855, however, a major fire damaged much of the college, placing its future at risk, but a large gift from Benjamin Lombard (1815–1882), a Massachusetts-born farmer and businessman, [1] rescued the institution, rechristened as Lombard University.
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.
A united church, also called a uniting church, is a denomination formed from the merger or other form of church union of two or more different Protestant Christian denominations, a number of which come from separate and distinct denominational orientations or traditions. [1]
Illinois College is a private liberal arts college in Jacksonville, Illinois. It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church (USA) . It was the second college founded in Illinois but the first to grant a degree (in 1835).
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 ...
To train ministers (among other things), the Church founded in 1831 the coeducational Clinton Liberal Institute in Clinton, New York. The church later established three divinity schools: Theological School of St. Lawrence University (1856–1965), the Ryder Divinity School (c. 1885–1913) at Lombard College , and the Crane Theological School ...