Bicentennial sermon : preached before the First Congregational Church, August 24, 1904 by the Pastor Rev. Henry Tucker Arnold, together with the proceedings at the anniversary. / by Rev. Henry T. Arnold
30 p. 19 cm
The First Church of Christ of Plainfield was established in 1705. The Town of Quinebaug, now Plainfield, had already been incorporated in 1699, although it did not yet have an established church or meeting house. The first meeting house was begun in 1702 on Black Hill and took seven years to be finished. In 1720, the church was moved to a more central position on the turnpike and that structure lasted sixty years. In 1784, a new church, half a mile to the south, was completed, but was blown down in the September gale of 1815. A new and sturdier church, constructed of stone, was completed on the same spot in 1819 and continues today as the First Congregational Church of Plainfield.
This volume contains a detailed history of the parish from its founding to 1904.
http://historicbuildingsct.com/?p=7352
Contains Poem" by Henry M. Witter"
1905
F104.P53 A76
34023001505900
The one hundreth anniversary of the Wapping Congregational Meeting House : erected 1801 and occupied 1802 in South Windsor, Connecticut
34 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., port. 26 cm
A program of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the building of the Wapping Congregational Meeting House in South Windsor, Connecticut. It contains the program of the ceremonies and several papers on the history of the Congregation church in the area dating back to the 18th century.
The Church in Wapping, a section of South Windsor, was built in 1801 and initially served several denominations. The Baptists and Methodists later founded their own churches, so that by 1817, only the Congregationalists remained. They eventually organized as the Second Congregational Church in South Windsor in 1830. The Congregationalists later merged with the Methodists to found the Wapping Federated Church, which became the Wapping Community Church in 1936. The original appearance of the church is not known. It was altered to its current Greek Revival style in 1849.
http://historicbuildingsct.com/?cat=9
October eleventh and twelfth, nineteen hundred & two.
Pagination irregular pages 9 and 10 repeated
[ 1902]
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F104.W24 W37 1902
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A historical sketch of Universalism in Norwich, Conn. : a sermon delivered before the Universalist Society in that place, on the 5th of May, 1844 / by R.O. Williams
32 p. 22 cm
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Norwich began in 1820 as the “Society of United Christian Friends in the Towns of Norwich, Preston and Groton.” The Society erected a church in 1821, but did not have a settled pastor, the pulpit being occupied by temporary ministers. A church was finally organized in 1836, when the “First Universalist Society in Norwich” was established. A new brick church replaced the old one in 1841 on the same site on Main Street, facing Franklin Square. It was enlarged and rededicated in 1848. The church was demolished for the construction of the Chelsea Savings Bank. A new church, later called the Unitarian Universalist Church of Norwich, was erected in 1910 at 148 Broadway. Constructed of random granite ashlar, the church is also known as the Church of the Good Shepherd for the subject of its large stained glass window. The church’s bell, earlier located in the congregation’s Franklin Square church, was one of several bells salvaged from sacked churches after an uprising in Spain in 1833 that were shipped to New York for sale. With a dwindling congregation, the Unitarian-Universalists sold the church in 2009. It then became the Fount of Salvation Missionary Church.
http://historicbuildingsct.com/?cat=125
The Universalist Church of America was a Christian Universalist religious denomination in the United States (plus affiliated churches in other parts of the world). Known from 1866 as the Universalist General Convention, the name was changed to the Universalist Church of America in 1942. In 1961, it consolidated with the American Unitarian Association to form the Unitarian Universalist Association.
The defining theology of Universalism is universal salvation; Universalists believe that the God of love would not create a person knowing that that person would be destined for eternal damnation. They concluded that all people must be destined for salvation.
American Universalism developed from the influence of various Pietist and Anabaptist movements in Europe, including Quakers, Moravians, Methodists, Lutherans, Schwenkfelders, Schwarzenau Brethren, and others. Pietists emphasized individual piety and zeal and, following Zinzendorf, as a "religion of the heart." Early followers were most often German in ancestry. The majority of the early American Universalists lived in the Mid-Atlantic colonies, though Rhode Island also had a fair amount of followers.
The Universalist Church of America involved itself in several social causes, generally with a politically liberal bent.
Universalists, along with various other denominations, vigorously opposed slavery as immoral. They also favored postbellum legislation such as the Fifteenth Amendment and the Freedman's Act to enfranchise all American citizens.
Like many American religions, Universalism has generally been amenable to church-state separation. In New England, Baptists, Universalists, and Quakers provided some of the loudest voices calling for disestablishment of the government sponsored churches of the standing order.
On June 25, 1863, Olympia Brown became one of the first women in the United States to receive ordination in a national denomination, Antoinette Brown having been the first when she was ordained by the Congregational Churches in 1853.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalist_Church_of_America
1844
F104.N93 W55 1844
34023001507641
The Protestant Episcopal Church in New Haven and for New England : a sermon preached at the semi-centennial celebration of the consecration of Trinity Church, New Haven, Wednesday, February 16th, 1866 / by Edwin Harwood
37 p. 23 cm
Trinity Church on the Green or Trinity on the Green is a historic parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut in New Haven, Connecticut. It is one of three historic churches on the New Haven Green. This landmark building in the "Gothick style" was designed by Ithiel Town in 1813, built between 1814 and 1815, and consecrated in 1816. It is the first example of a thoroughly Gothic style derived church building in North America, and predates the Gothic Revival architectural style in England by more than two decades.Officially known as Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green, New Haven, Connecticut, the parish was organized in 1723 by the Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson, a recent Anglican convert and a missionary priest of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Connecticut had been an established Congregationalist church colony since its founding in 1638, with only a single Anglican parish (and no church) in the village of Stratford, Connecticut, that had been only recently founded in 1707.
This volume is a sermon preached at the 50th anniversary of secondchurch of the parish. By the early 1800s, the first church building, even after adding galleries, was too small to hold the rapidly growing parish. The earliest records of the intent to build a second church are recorded in notes from the Vestry meeting held October 20, 1810, at the home of Mr. John H. Jacocks. A site on the south side of the town Green was secured at a town meeting on December 14, 1812. That a church of Anglican origin was being allowed on the Green with the established Congregationalist churches was a testament to a growing tolerance of varied forms of worship in the new Republic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church_on_the_Green
1866
F104.N662 H37 1866
34023001507609
St. John's Parish, Stamford, Connecticut
123 p. : ill., [8] leaves of plates 19 cm
According to the Preface to this volume, "the Rectory and Vestry desire that there be issued occasionally a manual like this for the information of all the members of the parish, regarding its organization, the work done in the past year, and the ways of helping the work still to be done." This volume is somewhat unusual in terms of the other church manuals in WCSU's collection in that it comntains much more information about the current (in 1898) orgabization and operations of the parish than do many of the others.
One hundred years after the establishment of Stamford, a group of residents petitioned the Town for a grant of land for an Anglican Church. There had been Anglicans in Stamford as early as 1705, but they had no church building and no settled clergy. In 1742 the Town gave the Anglicans a lot near the corner of present-day Main and Grove Streets where the first St. John’s Church was built. For a more deatailed history of the church, see:
http://www.stjohns-stamford.org/history/
b30772497
F104.S8 S25 1898
Manual of the First Church of Christ, Simsbury, Conn. : containing a brief historical sketch, its articles of faith and covenant and a catalogue of its members
39 p. 19 cm
The First Church of Christ of Simsbury, Connecticut was established in 1697. This volume contains a brief history (to 1897), Articles of Faith and a list of its members to 1897.
For addtional historical information, see: http://fccsimsbury.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Our-3-Centuries-of-History.pdf
For a current picture of the church, see:
http://historicbuildingsct.com/?p=1111
Organized November, 10th 1697.
b3088665x
F104.S6 F60 1897
Deutschland erwacht : Werden, kampf und sieg der NSDAP
Germany is awakening: victory, struggle and victory of the NSDAP
171 pgs
1933
Donated by Paul Montalto, DSC '69. Acquired by Cpl. Joseph P. Montalto during World War II.
The actual government of Connecticut / by Nancy M. Schoonmaker
119 p. 19 cm
From the forward, this book is intended for "the use of High Schools, Colleges, Normal Schools, clubs and any other group in which an interest in government could be aroused. We have had especially in mind also that great body of citizens whose enfranchisement may be confidently expected very soon, the women."
The author, Nancy Schoonmaker (1873 - 1965) was an author, lecturer and political activist in the womens' suffrage movement. At the time of the publication of this volume, she was Executive Secretary of the Department of Citizenship of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association.
http://www.cslib.org/archives/Finding_Aids/RG101.html
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/traveling-culture/chau1/pdf/schoonn/1/brochure.pdf
This book was reviewed in the Yale Law Journal (Vol. 29, No. 5 (March 1920)):
http://www.jstor.org/stable/787800
Features: includes folded insert regarding author with portrait
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JK3325 1919 .S4
A letter from the Rev. Thomas Hooker of Hartford : in answer to the complaints of Gov. Winthrop of Massachusetts, against Connecticut
18 p. 22 cm
John Winthrop (1587 – 1649) was a wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in New England after Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave of migrants from England in 1630, and served as governor for 12 of the colony's first 20 years of existence. His writings and vision of the colony as a Puritan "city upon a hill" dominated New England colonial development, influencing the governments and religions of neighboring colonies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Winthrop
Thomas Hooker (1586 – 1647) was a prominent Puritan colonial
leader who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and a leader of universal Christian suffrage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hooker
http://josfamilyhistory.com/stories/hooker.htm
The letter discusses a disagreement between the Hooker and Winthrop regarding a proposed confederation of the colonies in 1637.
From the first volume of the collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, now in press.
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F97 .H66 1859
Clinton Connecticut September 10, 1925 1812-1815
14 p. 18 cm
Program of the ceremony of the presentation of a War of 1812 cannon to the Town of Clinton, Connecticut by the Women's Relief Corp. in 1925.
The Women’s Relief Corps was an auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic (Civil War)
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMJ0Z1_Clinton_War_of_1812_Monument_Clinton_CT
This cannon a relic of the war of 1812 was 32 years..
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F104.C55 Cxx 1925