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The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science (1909) is a highly critical account of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, and the early history of the Christian Science church in 19th-century New England. It was published as a book in November 1909 in New York by Doubleday, Page & Company.
Eddy asked Augusta Stetson, a prominent Scientist, to establish a church in New York. By the end of 1886 Christian Science teaching institutes had sprung up around the United States. [175] In December 1887 Eddy moved to a $40,000, 20-room house at 385 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. [176]
Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally known as the Christian Science church. It was founded in 1879 in New England by Mary Baker Eddy, who wrote the 1875 book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which
Bliss Knapp (1877-1958) – Christian Science lecturer, practitioner, teacher and author; Annie M. Knott (1850-1941) – Christian Science practitioner, teacher and church leader; Laura Lathrop (1845-1922) – Christian Science teacher in New York; Augusta E. Stetson (1842-1928) – Christian Science teacher in New York, excommunicated in 1909
The York Mechanics' Institute was founded in 1827 and taught art and science classes. By 1877, the institute had a library that contained over 10,000 volumes. In 1891, a technical school was founded by the City of York Council and this took over teaching from the Mechanics' Institute which was dissolved in 1892 with its library and many of the books being handed over to the council.
John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English Puritan minister in Colonial New England whose deathbed [2] bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that the colony consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shalbee called Harvard Colledge".
Discussions regarding the founding of a college in the Province of New York began as early as 1704, when Colonel Lewis Morris wrote to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the missionary arm of the Church of England, persuading the society that New York City was an ideal community in which to establish a college. [4]
Lincoln College: 1427 Henry Chichele: All Souls College: 1438 William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester: Magdalen College: 1458 Richard Sutton and William Smyth: Brasenose College: 1509 Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester: Corpus Christi College: 1517 King Henry VIII: Christ Church: 1546 Sir Thomas Pope: Trinity College: 1555 Sir Thomas White: St ...