Ecclesiastical and Other Sketches of Southington, Conn
Author : Heman Rowlee Timlow
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Page : 892 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Southington (Conn.)
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Author : Heman Rowlee Timlow
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Page : 892 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Southington (Conn.)
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Author : Steve Courtney
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820330566
Bewilderment often follows when one learns that Mark Twain’s best friend of forty years was a minister. That Joseph Hopkins Twichell (1838-1918) was also a New Englander with Puritan roots only entrenches the “odd couple” image of Twain and Twichell. This biography adds new dimensions to our understanding of the Twichell-Twain relationship; more important, it takes Twichell on his own terms, revealing an elite Everyman--a genial, energetic advocate of social justice in an era of stark contrasts between America’s “haves and have-nots.” After Twichell’s education at Yale and his Civil War service as a Union chaplain, he took on his first (and only) pastorate at Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut, then the nation’s most affluent city. Steve Courtney tells how Twichell shaped his prosperous congregation into a major force for social change in a Gilded Age metropolis, giving aid to the poor and to struggling immigrant laborers as well as supporting overseas missions and cultural exchanges. It was also during his time at Asylum Hill that Twichell would meet Twain, assist at Twain’s wedding, and preside over a number of the family’s weddings and funerals. Courtney shows how Twichell’s personality, abolitionist background, theological training, and war experience shaped his friendship with Twain, as well as his ministerial career; his life with his wife, Harmony, and their nine children; and his involvement in such pursuits as Nook Farm, the lively community whose members included Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Dudley Warner. This was a life emblematic of a broad and eventful period of American change. Readers will gain a clear appreciation of why the witty, profane, and skeptical Twain cherished Twichell’s companionship.
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Page : 656 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 1852
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 1833
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Author : Connecticut Historical Society
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Connecticut
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Author : New York State Library
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Page : 158 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Libraries
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From 1889 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
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Page : 768 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 1835
Category : Religion
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Page : 778 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 1835
Category : Theology
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Author : Alexander Wood (M.A., F.S.A.)
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Page : 412 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : Alexander Wood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 2023-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368827219
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.