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First Universalist Society (Bangor, Maine)

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Photograph The First Universalist Society of Bangor, Maine, began in 1833. This church building was dedicated on Dec. 15, 1862. It was largely destroyed in the great Bangor fire of April 30, 1911, with only the outside walls remaining. Before...

Catlin, Hasket Derby

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Photograph Hasket Derby Catlin was born in New Brighton, New York, on June 26, 1839. He graduated from Yale in 1859. After three years of teaching and study, he entered Yale Divinity School; he graduated in 1865. Although raised as an Episcopalian, he...

Yearbooks and Annual Reports

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Yearbooks Use yearbooks to locate information about Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist congregations, leaders, and ministers. You can also use yearbooks to follow the career of a minister or a congregation's membership data over time...

Canfield, Harry Lee

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Photograph Harry Lee ("Hal") Canfield (1860-1942), son of Harry Lovell Canfield, was ordained as a Universalist minister in 1888. He served churches in Cincinnati, Ohio (1891-93), Dover, Maine (1898-1902), Woodstock, Vermont. (1902-06; 1909-13), Owatonna...

Directions by Foot

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Walking from Harvard Square The library is approximately a 15-minute walk from Harvard Square. These directions originate from the Church St./Harvard Yard exit of the MBTA Red Line Harvard stop. On the street level, from the station exit walk straight...

Charles Carroll Everett

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Bussey Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, 1869-1900 Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, 1878-1900 About this portrait photograph Charles Carroll Everett was born in Brunswick, Maine, on 19 June 1829, the son of Ebenezer Everett, a...

Powers, Levi Moore

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Photograph Levi Moore Powers was born on Mar. 21, 1864, in Newry, Me. As a child, he attended the Union Church at Newry Corner (then a Methodist congregation) but resisted the orthodox doctrine of hell he heard preached there. He attended Gould Academy in...

Chaffin, William Ladd and Rebecca Bagley Chaffin

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Photograph William Ladd Chaffin was born in Oxford, Maine, on August 16, 1837. His father died when he was eight months old, and he was raised by his father's sister in Concord, New Hampshire. After graduating from high school, he worked in his uncle's...

Silloway, Thomas W.

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Photograph Thomas William Silloway, son of Thomas Silloway, Sr., and Susan Stone Silloway, was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on August 7, 1828. He was educated in the public schools in Newburyport. At age 16, his father apprenticed him to Robert...

An Early Puritan Commentary

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Cotton, John, 1584-1652. A Practical Commentary: Or an Exposition with Observations, Reasons, and Uses upon the First Epistle Generall of John. 2d ed. much corrected and inlarged, with the addition of an alphabeticall table not in the former edition...

The School Gathers in 1895

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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...

Harvard Summer School of Religion

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Every summer from 1899 until 1910, and in 1920 and 1921, the Divinity School sponsored a special course of study for clergy and other "students of religion." Lasting about two and one half weeks, the participants attended lectures given by the Harvard...