Word: presbyterian
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Died. Rev. Dr. Frank William Bible, 60, since 1923 executive secretary of the central district of Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; after long illness; in Chicago...
...content with having resigned his Presbyterian pastorate and gone to jail in the 1919 steel strike, the late William Mann Fincke* in 1921 gave his 53-acre estate in Katonah, N. Y., with its big colonial farmhouse, to found Brookwood Labor College, first labor college in the U. S. Miss Evelyn Preston, a tall, dimpled, onetime Junior Leaguer, now president of the League of Women Shoppers (a labor auxiliary) gave the college a $50,000 women.'s dormitory. Among its other liberal and wealthy angels was the Garland Fund...
...various sects as follows: Baptist 157 Buddhist 4 Catholic 747 Christian Church 42 Christian Science 108 Congregational 410 Disciples of Christ 4 Dutch Reform 8 Episcopalians 469 Ethical Culture 2 Greek Orthodox 13 Jewish 827 Jewish Reformed 11 Lutheran 87 Methodist and Methodist Episcopal 258 Mormon 24 Mohammedan 3 Presbyterian 456 Protestant 226 Quaker (Friends)28 Unitarian...
...Congressman. To Detroit, last week brought Gabriel Richard Day, the lyoth anniversary of the birth of a Catholic who helped build the city. Under the chairmanship of Catholic Archbishop Edward Mooney, Michigan's Catholic Governor Frank Murphy and Dr. Joseph Anderson Vance of Detroit's First Presbyterian Church, the day was celebrated with high mass, a parade, a banquet, a speech by onetime Governor Chase Salmon Osborn, author of a biography of Father Richard, and a wreath-laying at a statue of the priest which stands before Detroit's city hall...
...territory's first newspaper, the Michigan Essay and Impartial Observer. When Detroit burned to the ground in 1805, Father Richard's St. Anne's Church was gone and he set up in a tent, later building a new church and six schools beside. With a Presbyterian named Rev. John Monteith he founded in 1817 what is now the University of Michigan, the Presbyterian becoming president and holding seven professorships, the Catholic vice president with six professorships. In 1823 Father Richard was elected to the 18th Congress of the U. S. as third delegate from the Michigan territory...