Landers, Stephen Presson, 1812-1876. Papers, 1838-1843.
Overview
Letters to Universalist minister Stephen Presson Landers (1812-1876).
Dates
- Creation: 1838-1843.
Extent
1 foldersBiographical / Historical
Stephen Presson Landers (1812-1876) was born in South Bainbridge, New York. In 1834, he entered the Clinton Liberal Institute in Clinton, New York, and began preaching in Pennsylvania two years later. Landers was ordained as a Universalist minister in 1839 at Binghamton, New York, and spent the next 10 years in various ministerial settlements in Massachusetts. He also worked with Zephaniah Baker on the periodical Gospel Messenger and Providence and Worcester Journal from 1842 to 1843. In 1849, Landers returned to Clinton, New York, and devoted the rest of his life to a private seminary he established within his own household.
- Title
- Landers, Stephen Presson, 1812-1876. Papers: A Finding Aid.
- Author
- Andover-Harvard Theological Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- div00656
Repository Details
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Special Collections at Harvard Divinity School Library preserves and makes accessible primary source materials documenting the history of religion and theology, with particular historical emphasis on American liberal religious traditions. Though the historical strengths of the collections have been in the field of Christianity, other religious traditions are increasingly reflected, in step with Harvard Divinity School's evolving focus on global religious studies. Known as Andover-Harvard Theological Library since 1911, it was renamed the Harvard Divinity School Library in 2021.
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