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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 .
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.
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.
St. Joseph's Seminary - major seminary run by the Josephites, founded in 1888; later an independent academic seminary, but residential-only beginning in the early 1970s Epiphany Apostolic College - former minor seminary run by the Josephites; founded in Baltimore in 1889 and later moved near Newburgh in 1925; eventually closed for seminary ...
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.
Abbott graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825, prepared for the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary, and between 1830 and 1844, when he retired from the ministry in the Congregational Church, preached successively at Worcester, Roxbury, and Nantucket, all in Massachusetts.
He was later appointed professor of sacred literature in the Andover Theological Seminary in 1810. [ 1 ] He succeeded Eliphalet Pearson (1752–1826), the first preceptor of the Phillips (Andover) Academy and in 1786–1806 was appointed professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages at Harvard .
Ralph Emerson (Aug. 18, 1787 – May 26, 1863) was Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Pastoral Theology in the Andover Theological Seminary.. He was born on August 18, 1787, in Hollis, New Hampshire, where his father was a leading citizen, and where his grandfather, Rev. Daniel Emerson, was a pastor from 1743 to 1801.