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Photograph Theodore Fischer was born in Meriden, Connecticut, on September 19, 1873. He received a BD degree from Tufts in 1896 and was ordained on June 19, 1896. He served the Universalist church in Warren, Massachusetts (1896-99), the Medford Hillside...

Photograph Herbert Elmon Benton was born on July 7, 1872, in Vinton, Iowa. He attended Tufts College, receiving an AB degree in 1894 and BD and AM degrees in 1897. He was ordained on June 14, 1897, at Tufts. He served Universalist churches in Derby Line...

Photograph Photo of the cast of "Prophet of Good Luck," a play given by members of the First Universalist Church in Bridgeport, Conn., and written by the Rev. Bernard Ruggles (published by him in 1916). The play includes a cast of characters including...

The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments. Hartford, Conn.: American Pub. Co., 1876. Julia Evelina Smith (1792-1886) was one of the five daughters of Zephaniah Hollister Smith (who left the Congregational ministry after concluding it was...

In June 1863 at the St. Lawrence Association of Universalists (New York), Olympia Brown became the first woman ordained “with full denominational authority” by any denomination in America.Brown would serve in Universalist congregations throughout the...

In the manuscripts collection of Harvard Divinity School Library is found the following photograph of the school gathered in 1895, together with a typewritten list identifying many in the photograph. The person's position in the photograph and brief...