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OBERLIN , a See also:village of See also:Lorain See also:county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., 34 M. W.S.W. of See also:Cleveland. Pop. (18go) 4376; (1900) 4082 (641 ne-, groes) ; (1910) 4365. It is served by the See also:Lake See also:Shore & See also:Michigan See also:Southern railway, and by the Cleveland & See also:South-Western (electric) railway, which furnishes connexions directly with Cleveland and See also:Elyria, and at the village of See also:Wellington (about 10 m. S.) connects with the Cleveland, See also:Cincinnati, See also:Chicago & St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, and the See also:Wheeling & Lake See also:Erie See also:railways. Oberlin is primarily an educational centre, the seat of Oberlin See also:College, named in See also:honour of See also:Jean See also:Frederic Oberlin, and open to both sexes; it embraces a college of arts and sciences, an See also:academy, a Theological See also:Seminary (Congregational), which has a Slavic See also:department for the training of See also:clergy for Slavic immigrants, and a conservatory of See also:music. In 1909 it had twenty buildings, and a Memorial See also:Arch of See also:Indiana See also:buff See also:limestone, dedicated in 1903, in honour of Congregational missionaries, many of them Oberlin graduates, killed in See also:China in 1900. Its See also:libraries contained in 1909 98,000 See also:bound volumes and an equal number of See also:pamphlets, and the college had a See also:faculty numbering 113 and a student enrolment of 1944. The resources of the college in 1909 were about $3,500,000. Under the editorship of a See also:professor See also:emeritus is published the Bibliotheca Sacra, a quarterly founded in 1843, and for many years the See also:organ of the See also:Andover Theological Seminary.
The village was founded as Oberlin See also:Colony in 1833 (in 1846 it was incorporated as the village of Oberlin), by the Rev. See also:John J. Shipherd (1802-1844), pastor of a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church in Elyria, and the Rev. See also:Philo Penfield See also:- STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
- STEWART, BALFOUR (1828-1887)
- STEWART, CHARLES (1778–1869)
- STEWART, DUGALD (1753-1828)
- STEWART, J
- STEWART, JOHN (1749—1822)
- STEWART, JULIUS L
- STEWART, SIR DONALD MARTIN (1824–19o0)
- STEWART, SIR HERBERT (1843—1885)
- STEWART, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1540—c. 1605)
- STEWART, STUART
- STEWART, WILLIAM (c. 1480-c. 1550)
Stewart (1798–1868), a missionary to the See also:Choctaws of See also:Mississippi, as a See also:home for Oberlin Collegiate See also:Institute, which was chartered in 1834; the name Oberlin College was adopted in 185o. To the Theological Seminary, opened in 1835, there came in the same See also:year See also:forty students from See also:Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, after the discussion of See also:slavery there had been forbidden by its See also:board of trustees. A former member of the board, See also:Asa See also:Mahan (1800–1889), who had strongly disapproved of the See also:action of the trustees, came to Oberlin, and became the first See also:president of the college. Oberlin was the first See also:American college to adopt coeducation of sexes, and was a See also:pioneer in See also:America (1835) in the coeducation of the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white and See also:black races.' The village became a station on the Undergrour?d Railway, and an important centre of See also:anti-slavery sentiment. See also:Manual labour was adopted at first as a means for students to defray their college expenses. As See also:late as 1906 it was estimated that nearly two-thirds of the men were to a greater or less degree self-supporting, as were many of the See also:young See also:women. What is known as the " Oberlin See also:Theology " (no longer identified with the college) centered in the teaching of See also:Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), who became professor of theology in 1835 and was Mahan's successor in the See also:presidency (1851–186b). He was a powerful preacher and teacher, who See also:broke from Calvinism in denying imputation and teaching perfect freedom of the will, by which perfect holiness might be attained. Finney carried
1 A runaway slave, Littlejohn, was taken at Oberlin in See also:September 188 by a See also:United States See also:marshal, but was rescued at Wellington. Several of the rescuers, notably Professor See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Everard See also:Peck of Oberlin College, were arrested and were imprisoned in Cleveland for several months. This was a famous fugitive slave See also:case.on remarkable revival services in Western New See also:York, in See also:Philadelphia (1828), in New York See also:City (1829–183o and 1832, the New York Evangelist being founded to carry on his See also:work), in See also:Boston (1831, 1842–1843, 1856–18J7), in See also:London (1849–185o) and throughout See also:England and See also:Scotland (1858).
See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Harris Fairchild (1817–1902) was president from 1866 to 1889; See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Gay See also:Ballantine (b. 1848), a distinguished See also:Hebrew See also:scholar, was president in 1891–1896, and John Henry Barrows (1847–1902) from 1899 to 1902, when he was succeeded by Henry See also:Churchill See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King (b. 1858).
The See also:modern theological position of Oberlin college is reflected in the writings of President King and of See also:Dean See also:Edward I. See also:Bosworth (b. 1861) of the Theological Seminary, especially in President King's Reconstruction in Theology (1901) ; Theology and the Social Consciousness (1902) ; The Seeming Unreality of the Spiritual See also:Life (1908) and The See also:Laws of Friendship—Human and. Divine (1909).
See Finney's autobiographical See also:Memoirs (New York, 1876) ; J. H. Fairchild, Oberlin, the College and the Colony (Oberlin, 1883) ; D. L. Leonard, The See also:Story of Oberlin (Boston, 1898) ; and A. T. See also:Swing, Life of J. H. Fairchild (New York, 1907).
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