This is the sixth of six blog posts about Universalist ministers who are buried in Bradford County. James Dean Herrick (1875-1945) James D. Herrick was born in 1875 in Cicero, N. Y. (near Syracuse). His parents owned a hotel in Cicero, which his mother continued to operate after James’ father died in 1878. There was […]
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Universalist Ministers’ Graves Part 5: W
This is the fifth of six blog posts about Universalist ministers who are buried in Bradford County. William Garfield Cortright (1870-1915) William Garfield Cortright, the oldest of the seven children of Philip and Lucy Cortright, was born in 1870 near Wyalusing. William attended public schools but did not graduate from high school. In his early […]
Universalist Ministers’ Graves Part 4: A
This is the fourth of six blog posts about Universalist ministers who are buried in Bradford County. Alice Kinney Tripp Wright Graves (1870-1949) Alice Kinney Tripp was a fifth-generation Universalist. She was a great-great-granddaughter of one of Noah Murray’s early converts, Joseph Kinney. Her parents were Estella Kinney and Dennison W. Tripp, a Civil War […]
Universalist Ministers’ Graves Part 3: M
This is the third of six blog posts about Universalist ministers who are buried in Bradford County. Myra Kingsbury (1847-1898) Myra Kingsbury was born on Dec. 5, 1847, in Sheshequin, the second of three daughters of Lemuel and Sally Osborn Kingsbury. Her father was the youngest child of Sheshequin Universalist stalwart Joseph Kingsbury, and the […]
Universalist Ministers’ Graves Part 2: S
This is the second of six blog posts about Universalist ministers who are buried in Bradford County. Schuyler Jerome Gibson (1816-1864) Schuyler J. Gibson was born in 1816 in Norwich, N. Y. He attended an orthodox Christian church, but came to believe in universal salvation through his own study of the Bible. He reportedly argued […]
Universalist Ministers’ Graves Part 1: N
This is the first of six blog posts about Universalist ministers who are buried in Bradford County. Noah Murray (1747-1811) Noah Murray was born in Connecticut in 1747. He began preaching in Massachusetts as a Baptist but had embraced the doctrine of universal salvation by 1784. He was one of only about fifteen Universalist preachers […]
Two Centuries of Women Ministers in Athe...
[The following is a sermon given by K. Replogle at UUCAS on Feb. 4, 2018.] Two Centuries of Women Ministers in Athens and Sheshequin At our General Assembly last year, the Rev. Dr. Susan Frederick-Gray was elected President of the Unitarian Universalist Association (the UUA). She is the first woman to lead our denomination in […]
Two Kinney Ministers
Like the Rev. Noah Murray, Joseph Kinney – one of Murray’s first converts in Sheshequin – also had a descendant who became a Universalist minister – two, in fact. They were a grandson, Joseph Kinney, and a great-great-granddaughter, Alice Kinney Tripp. The Rev. Joseph Kinney, the oldest son of Charles Kinney and his wife Amanda […]
Dashed Hopes
I recently stumbled upon a reference to Noah Murray and Moses Park in an 1830 issue of the Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate. The Magazine and Advocate was a weekly Universalist newspaper published in Utica, N. Y. Murray and his convert Park were the first Universalist preachers in Bradford County. A “J. T. Parker” of […]
The Rev. Irene Earll Addresses the Slack...
The Rev. Irene Earll, a fourth-generation Universalist, served the Athens Universalist Church from 1892 to 1893. She was a native of Syracuse, N. Y., and an 1890 graduate of Cornell University. She was ordained in 1891 and served a Universalist congregation in Webster, N. Y., before coming to Athens. Earll was called to Athens in […]