Cobb Divinity School
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Cobb Divinity School was a Baptist theological institute. Founded in 1840, it was a Free Will Baptist graduate school affiliated with several Free Baptist institutions throughout its history. Cobb was
Cobb Divinity School's facility from 1870 to 1895. The building now serves as John Bertram Hall on the campus of Bates College
Cobb Divinity School faculty, ca. 1895, featuring Professors John Fullonton, Alfred W. Anthony, Herbert R. Purinton, James A. Howe, and Benjamin F. Hayes
Cobb Divinity School building from 1894-1908. Currently Roger Williams Hall on the campus of Bates College
Oren Burbank Cheney
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Oren Burbank Cheney was an American statesman and minister who was a key figure in the abolitionist movement in the United States during the later 19th century. Along with textile tycoon Benjamin Bate
Cobb Divinity School
…a prominent businessman at the Bates Mill in Lewiston who had donated $25,000 to the Divinity School at Bates. In 1891, President of Bates College Oren B. Cheney amended the school's charter requiring that Bates' president and a majority of the trustees be Free Will Baptists. Following Cheney's retirement, the…
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Oren Cheney's father, Moses Cheney, a prominent minister and abolitionist
Dartmouth during the 1800s
Free Soil Party poster