Overview
Church constitution; membership lists and certificates; church correspondence; minister's records; church financial records; miscellaneous church records.
Dates
- Creation: 1874-1948
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on access to this collection.
Extent
1.4 cubic feet (4 boxes)This collection consists of the church constitution; membership lists and certificates; church correspondence; minister's records; church financial records; and miscellaneous church records.
Historical note
The Hyde Park Unitarian Church (The First Unitarian Society of Hyde Park, the Church of the Christian Fraternity) was organized June 3, 1868. The meeting house was dedicated February 18, 1875.
Ministers
- 1867-1868
- Trowbridge Brigham Forbush
- 1868-1869
- William Hamilton
- 1870-1879
- Francis Charles Williams
- 1880-1883
- Adoniram Judson Rich
- 1884-1890
- James Huxtable
- 1890-1894
- Edmund Quincey Sewall Orgood
- 1896-1899
- Arthur Gooding Pettingill
- 1900-1905
- William Henry Savage
- 1905-1908
- Samuel Louis Elberfeld
- 1909-1909
- Johannes A.C. Fagginger Auer
- 1910-1914
- Louis Clas Dethlefs
- 1915-1916
- Philip Slaney Thacher
- 1916-1927
- Alexander Thomas Bowser
- 1927-1935
- Forrester Alexander Macdonald
- 1936-1937
- Edward Allison Cahil
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Processed by:
Douglas Stange, 1966.
- Title
- First Unitarian Society (Hyde Park, Mass.) Records (bMS 6): Register
- Author
- Andover-Harvard Theological Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- div00006
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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