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Theological School of St. Lawrence University

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Type
  
Seminary

Location
  
Canton, New York

Active
  
1856–1965

Founded
  
1856

Affiliation
  
Universalist Church of America

The Theological School of St. Lawrence University was founded in 1856 at St. Lawrence University and closed in 1965, one of the three Universalist seminaries (Crane Divinity School and Ryder Divinity School being the others).

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Closure

The school closed in 1965 with the consolidation of the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association into the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Student body

1858: 4 students

Notable graduates include Olympia Brown in 1863—the first woman in America to receive ordination with full denominational authority.

Leaders

  • 1856–1879: Ebenezer Fisher (president)
  • 1879–1898: Isaac Morgan Atwood (president)
  • 1899–1913: Henry Prentiss Forbes (dean)
  • 1914–1951: John Murray Atwood (dean)
  • 1951–1960: Angus Hector MacLean (dean)
  • 1960–1965: Max Kapp (dean)
  • References

    Theological School of St. Lawrence University Wikipedia