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- Title
- Ohio ministers' letters, 1820-1851.
- Description
- Collection consists of 16 letters, many between Presbyterian ministers, chiefly Samuel Crothers of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chillcothe Presbytery. Topics include meetings of presbytery, family news, and abolitionist sentiment in the Synod of Cincinnati. Samuel Crothers, Presbyterian minister and antislavery activist, was born October 20, 1783 in Chambersburg, Pa. He attended preparatory school in Lexington, Ky. and trained in theology with John Mason of New York, N.Y. In 1820, Crothers became pastor of Presbyterian Church (Greenfield, Ohio). He preached in favor of temperance, opposed the Old School / New School schism, and preached and wrote extensively against slavery. Crothers died in Oswego, Ill., July 2, 1856.
- Creator Name(s)
- Crothers, Samuel, 1783-1856. (author), Gilliland, James, 1769-1845. (author)
- Date Created
- 1820, 1820-1851
- Name Subject(s)
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Presbytery of Chillicothe., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Synod of Cincinnati.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Antislavery movements--Ohio.
- Geographic subjects
- Cincinnati (Ohio), North and Central America--United States--Ohio
- Physical Location
- ARCHIVES 13-0118; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Ohio ministers' letters, 1820-1851.--http://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=74151
- Identifier (local)
- 13_0118
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:10501
- Title
- Rev. Bruce William Klunder memorial address by Eugene Carson Blake.
- Description
- Transcript of Dr. Eugene Carson Blake's memorial address for Rev. Bruce William Klunder, a white Presbyterian minister and civil rights activist who died after he was run over by a bulldozer while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Blake delivered the eulogy at Klunder's funeral services at Church of the Covenant.
- Creator Name(s)
- Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (author)
- Date Created
- 1964, April 1964, April 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985--Archives., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964--Death and burial., Klunder, Bruce W., 1937-1964.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights workers--Ohio--Cleveland., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Ohio--Cleveland., Funeral service--Ohio--Cleveland., Segregation in education--Ohio--Cleveland.
- Geographic subjects
- Ohio, Cleveland., Ohio, Cleveland., Ohio, Cleveland., Ohio, Cleveland., Cleveland (Ohio), North and Central America--United States--Ohio--Cuyahoga--Cleveland
- Physical Location
- RG 3, Box 17, Folder 20; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Eugene Carson Blake Papers, 1940-1966.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-3
- Identifier (local)
- rg3_b17_f20_klunder_blake_address
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:344177
