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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 .
Establishing Wheelock Seminary, translating religious texts from English into Choctaw language Alfred Wright (1788–1853) was born in Connecticut in 1788. His parents could not afford to send him to school, so he worked on the family farm until he was 17 years old and could support his own education.
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.
The shock of learning the dying neighbor's identity – and that Eames had led Judson away from the Christian faith into skepticism, but was now dead – returned Judson back to the faith of his youth, although he was already attending the Andover Theological Seminary. [3] In 1808, Judson "made a solemn dedication of himself to God". [4]
Leonard Woods. Leonard Woods (June 19, 1774 – August 24, 1854) [1] was an American theologian.He was widely known for upholding orthodox Calvinism over Unitarianism.. In 1796, Woods graduated from Harvard, and was soon ordained pastor in 1798 of the Congregational Church at West Newbury, MA.
Manning was born in Greenwood, New York, graduated from Amherst College in 1850, studied theology at Andover Theological Seminary, and in 1854 was ordained as pastor of the Mystic Church in Medford, Massachusetts. [1] In 1857 he became assistant pastor of Old South Church, Boston, where he became pastor in 1872 until he stepped down on March 15 ...
The Newton Theological Institution Historic District is an historic district in the village of Newton Centre in Newton, Massachusetts.It encompasses not only the campus of the Newton Theological Institution, now known as the Andover Newton Theological School, but also a cluster of fashionable 19th century houses north of the campus, on Herrick Road and Chase and Cypress Streets.
George Barrell Cheever (April 7, 1807 – October 1, 1890) was a well-known and controversial abolitionist minister and writer. Born in Hallowell, Maine, he was an 1825 graduate of Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry W. Longfellow, [1] and Andover Theological Seminary.