Overview
Papers of Unitarian minister Ernest Augustus Brown, including material related to his ministerial settlements and letters. The papers span 1938-1966.
Dates
- Creation: 1938-1966
- Creation: 1940-1966
Access
There are no restrictions on access to this collection.
Extent
1 boxesData on the churches he served in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and letters (1940-1966).
Biographical / Historical
Ernest Augustus Brown (1912-1970) was born in Bedford, Massachusetts. He received his AB and STB from Tufts University in 1939 and 1940, respectively, and attended courses at Harvard Divinity School. In 1940, Brown was ordained as a Unitarian minister at the First Parish Church in Stow, Massachusetts. He held ministerial settlements in Claremont and Lempster, New Hampshire; Windsor, Vermont; and Stow, Waltham, and North Andover, Massachusetts. He also served on the board of the New Hampshire Universalist Convention and as president of the Massachusetts Universalist Minister's Association. Brown died suddenly at the age of 57, in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
- Title
- Brown, Ernest Augustus. Papers, 1938-1966 : A Finding Aid.
- Author
- Andover-Harvard Theological Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- div00574
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard Divinity School Library, Harvard University Repository
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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