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Auburn Theological Seminary was established in Auburn, New York, by action of the Presbyterian Synod of Geneva on 16 August 1818. [1] It obtained a charter from the New York State legislature on 14 April 1820 [4] as a post-baccalaureate theological seminary, and it matriculated its first students in 1821. [5]
The Ezra A. Huntington House, at 11 Seminary St. in Auburn, New York, was built in 1861.It served as the house of first president of the Auburn Theological Seminary.It is somewhat Italianate in style.
The Willard Memorial Chapel and the adjoining Welch Memorial Hall are historic conjoined buildings located at 17 Nelson Street in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York.Built 1892–1894 for the Auburn Theological Seminary, the buildings contain an ecclesiastical installation of stained glass and interior decoration by Louis Comfort Tiffany that is still in its original setting.
Hungerford strongly supported the Auburn Theological Seminary, at the time located in Auburn, New York and later in 1939 relocated to New York City. Hungerford was appointed to the Board of Commissioners (Presbytery of Steuben), which hired and helped set salaries for the professors at the Seminary. [32]
Auburn Theological Seminary Signature Josiah Bushnell Grinnell (December 22, 1821 – March 31, 1891) was a U.S. Congressman from Iowa's 4th congressional district , an ordained Congregational minister, radical abolitionist, [ 1 ] founder of Grinnell, Iowa and benefactor of Grinnell College .
The Auburn Theological Seminary history professor, Robert Hastings Nichols, proposed to challenge this procedure of repeatedly affirming additional standards of orthodoxy, besides the Bible and the Westminster Confession of Faith - which were the only standards of orthodoxy officially recognized by the church.
He was a professor of homiletics at Auburn Seminary from 1927 to his retirement in 1939. He also lectured at Union Theological Seminary. [2] In 1911, his comments on the marriage of John Jacob Astor IV and Madeleine Force were featured in the New York Times. Their wedding was performed by another Providence Congregational minister in Newport.
Titus Coan was born on February 1, 1801, in Killingworth, Connecticut, the son of Gaylord Coan and Tamza Nettleton.In June 1831, he entered the Auburn Theological Seminary in Auburn, New York, and was ordained in April 1833.