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Andover Theological Seminary (1807–1965) was a Congregationalist seminary founded in 1807 and originally located in Andover, Massachusetts on the campus of Phillips Academy. From 1908 to 1931, it was located at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts .
He was the first professor of Andover Theological Seminary and between 1808 and 1846, occupied the seminary's chair of Christian theology. He helped establish several societies including the American Tract Society, the American Education Society, the Temperance Society, and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
He made a profession of faith when he was 17 and was then prepared for the Presbyterian ministry at Phillips Academy (1825–27), Andover Theological Seminary (1827–29), and Princeton Theological Seminary (1829–30). In 1846, Jones received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
Therefore there should be a voluntary emancipation of slaves by the Southern slave owners. However, Parker Pillsbury reported in his 1847 "Forlorn Hope of Slavery" that Stuart of Andover Theological Seminary wrote "to President Fisk of another Theological Seminary, that 'slavery may exist, without violating the Christian faith or the Church.'"
Atkinson then received religious training at the Andover Theological Seminary, graduating in 1846. [1] He married Nancy Bates that same year. [ 1 ] On February 24, 1847, George Atkinson was ordained as a Congregational minister and then sent with his wife as a missionary to Oregon Country . [ 1 ]
[4] [5] He graduated from Dartmouth College, Phi Beta Kappa in 1841, [6] and Andover Theological Seminary in 1846. He received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Brown University in 1857. Ministry
He graduated at Amherst in 1839, studied law in Boston under Rufus Choate, graduated at Andover Theological Seminary in 1845, and was pastor of the Harvard Congregational church of Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1845–1846, and of the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New York, from 1846 until shortly before his death. [1]
In 1834, Torrey enrolled at the Andover Theological Seminary, where slavery's abolition was a major topic of discussion.Torrey adopted the cause as his own and although tuberculosis caused him to suspend his studies for a year, he became an active worker for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, which was headed by William Lloyd Garrison.