Title
McCormick Theological Seminary Collection
Subject
McCormick Theological Seminary
McCormick Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church
Religion--Study and Teaching
Religion--Study and Teaching (Higher)
Religious facilities
Seminarians
Theological seminaries
Presbyterian theological seminaries
College teachers
Presbyterians
College buildings
McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884
McCormick, Nettie Fowler, 1855-1923
Description
The first classes at the McCormick Theological Seminary took place in a log cabin in Indiana in 1829. During the Civil War the school relocated to Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. In 1859 Chicago entrepreneur and Presbyterian layman Cyrus H. McCormick and his wife, Nettie Fowler McCormick, became the seminary's major financial patrons. The relationship between the McCormick family and the school remained well into the twentieth century. Shortly after McCormick’s death in 1884, the school was renamed McCormick Theological Seminary. Several campus buildings are named for McCormick family members including McCormick Hall, Fowler Hall, and Virginia Library.
After Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968, seminary faculty and students were active in the civil rights movement and provided assistance to displaced and injured participants. The seminary relocated to Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood in 1975.
The photographs in this collection include portraits of the McCormick Theological Seminary Class of 1896, school professors, and campus buildings.
Collection Items
Reverend LeRoy Jones Halsey, D.D., L.L.D., Professor Emeritus of Church Government and the Sacraments, sits for a portrait.
Reverend Willis Green Craig, D.D., L.L.D., Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology, sits for a portrait.
Reverend David Calhoun Marquis, D.D., L.L.D., Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis, sits for a portrait.
Reverend Herrick Johnson, D.D., L.L.D., Professor of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology, sits for a portrait.
Reverend John S. Macintosh, D.D., served as Professor of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology during the absence of Dr. Herrick Johnson (1895-96).
Reverend Andrew C. Zenos, D.D., Professor of Biblical Theology, sits for a portrait.
Reverend Edwin Cone Bissell, D.D., L.L.D., Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis and veteran of the Civil War, served in Company K, 52nd Massachusetts from 1862-1863.
Reverend Augustus Stiles Carrier, D.D., Professor of Hebrew and the Cognate Languages, sits for a portrait.
Reverend Benjamin Lewis Hobson, D.D., Professor of Apologetics and Missions, sits for a portrait.
Reverend J. Ross Stevenson, A.M., Adjunct Professor of Ecclesiastical History, sits for a portrait.
Abel H. Huizinga, Ph.D., served as Adjunct Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis after the death of Reverend Edwin Cone Bissell.
Edward Munson Booth, A. M., Instructor in Elocution and Voice Culture, sits for a portrait
Merle Hampton Anderson of Pennsylvania, an 1893 graduate of Washington and Jefferson College, sits for a portrait.
Alvin Clark Austin of Indiana, a former student at Fairmount, sits for a portrait.
Cyrus Boyd Beckes of Kansas, an 1893 graduate of Park College, sits for a portrait.
Horace Orlando Bethel of Wisconsin, an 1893 graduate of Ripon College, sits for a portrait.
Henry Chalmers Biddle of Kirkwood, Illinois, an 1891 graduate of Monmouth College, sits for a portrait.
Charles Eugene Blanchard of Michigan, an 1893 graduate of Alma College, sits for a portrait.
Charles Walter Bogle of Mason City, Illinois, an 1893 graduate of the University of Wooster, sits for a portrait.
Frank Denison Breed of Michigan, a graduate of Emporia College(1893) and Princeton(1895), sits for a portrait.
Andrew Gregg Curtin Brown of Pennsylvania, an 1896 graduate of Waynesburg College, sits for a portrait.
Henry Charles Buell of New York, an 1893 graduate of Centre College, sits for a portrait.
Newman Hall Burdick of New York, an 1893 graduate of Lake Forest University, sits for a portrait.
Frank Thomas Connor of Ohio, an 1893 graduate of Park College, sits for a portrait.
Thomas Munnell Cornelison of Kentucky, an 1893 graduate of Centre College, sits for a portrait.
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