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 Hobart and William Smith Colleges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hobart and William Smith Colleges are Geneva, New York, liberal arts colleges in a coordinate system.
Hobart College was founded in 1822 as Geneva College and renamed in honor of its founder, Episcopal bishop John Henry Hobart, in 1852.
Hobart's archrival in athletics (and academics to an extent) is Union College in Schenectady, New York.
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 John Henry Hobart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Henry Hobart (September 14, 1775 - September 12, 1830), was the third Episcopal bishop of New York (1816-1830)
He was one of the founders of the General Theological Seminary, became its professor of Pastoral Theology in 1821, and as bishop was,its governor.
Hobart's zeal for the General Seminary and the General Convention led him to oppose the plan of Philander Chase, Bishop of Ohio, for an Episcopal seminary in that diocese; but the Ohio seminary was made directly responsible to the House of Bishops, and Hobart approved the plan.
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 Biography: John Henry Hobart, Bishop of New York (12 Sept 1830)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Hobart was one of the men who changed this.
John Henry Hobart was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 September 1775, the son of a ship's captain.
Hobart had the energy of ten men: horses dropped under his exertions and he thought nothing of a winter visitation of 2,000 miles in western New York or 4,000 at a more seasonal time.
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 Hobart and William Smith Colleges :: HWS History
Hobart College was founded in 1822 by Episcopal Bishop John Henry Hobart, who conceived it to be an outpost for civilized and learned behavior on what was then the western fringes of European settlement.
Bishop Hobart had a plan to reopen the Academy at a new location, raise a public subscription for the construction of a stone building, and elevate the school to college status.
In 1943, during the administration of President John Milton Potter, William Smith College was elevated from its original status as a department of Hobart College to that of an independent college, co-equal with Hobart.
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 John Henry Hobart
HOBART, John Henry, P. bishop, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 September, 1775; died in Auburn, New York, 12 September, 1830.
To say that Bishop Hobart lived and labored to give the answer fairly indicates the sum of his history in the latter half of his life.
Hobart is now (1887) the sole survivor of his father's seven children.
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 John Henry Hobart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Within his first four years as bishop, Hobart doubled the number of his clergy and quadrupled the number of missionaries.
He was one of the founders of the General Theological Seminary, and the reviver of Geneva, now Hobart, College.
A strong and unbending upholder of Church standards, Hobart established the Bible and Common Prayer Book Society of New York, and was one of the first American Churchmen to produce theological and devotional manuals for the laity.
www.geocities.com /episcopal23/hobart.html   (245 words)

  
 Graduation list at Princeton during Witherspoon's Presidency
John Henry Hobart, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, and Professor of Pastoral Theology and Pulpit Eloquence in the Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church.
John Beatty, Delegate to the Continental Congress, from New Jersey.
John Henry, Delegate to the Continental Congress, from Maryland.
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 HOMILY GRITS September Festivals and Fasts
Ordained priest by Bishop William White in 1801, John Henry Hobart found the Episcopal Church after the Revolution to be in a state of "suspended animation".
He and John Keble stayed home when J.H. Newman swam the Tiber, and their combination of evangelical zeal and catholic faith restored the foundations which had been shaken by the protestant revolt, puritan desecration, and Latitudinarian lethargy..
John Coleridge Patteson, born in 1827, odained in 1853, and in 1855 responded to a call for missionaries in New Zealand, where he established a school for boys on Norfolk Island.
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 JOHN HENRY HOBART - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN HENRY HOBART
(1775-1830), American Protestant Episcopal bishop, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 14th of September 1775, being fifth in direct descent from Edmund Hobart, a founder of Hingham, Massachusetts.
See Memorial of Bishop Hobart, containing a Memoir (New York 1831); John McVickar, The Early Life and Professional Years o~
Bishop Hobart (New York, 1834), and The Closing Years of Bishol Hobart (New York, 1836).
www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HO/HOBART_JOHN_HENRY.htm   (418 words)

  
 College and University Founders.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Henry Hobart 1793, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York, led a movement in 1822 to reorganize Geneva Academy, begun in 1796, as Geneva College.
The Rev. John Todd 1749 and the Rev. Caleb Wallace 1770 were influential in securing a charter and endowment for Transylvania Seminary in 1783, and David Rice 1761 was the first chairman of its trustees.
John Blair Smith 1773 was the first president of the college.
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 John Henry Hobart Ward
WARD, John Henry Hobart, soldier, born in New York city, 17 June, 1823.
His grandfather, John, a soldier of the Revolution, and his father, James, who fought in the war of 1812, were both disabled by wounds that they received in the service.
The son was educated at Trinity collegiate school, enlisted at the age of eighteen in the 7th United States infantry, and in four years rose through the several grades to that of sergeant-major.
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He had, around 1770, acquired all of the land held in the Five Partners Patent (a Patent was a grant or deed of land issued by the Crown).
Identified as being bounded on the west by Hudson's River, on the south and east by Crum Elbow Creek and on the north by the Rhinebeck Patent, John Bard named the Patent Hyde Park in honor of Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury the Governor of the Colony of New York.
John died in 1799 and therefore did not live to see the organization of the church.
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 John Henry Hobart Brown
BROWN, John Henry Hobart, P. bishop, born in New York City, 1 January, 1831; died in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, 2 May, 1888.
In 1856 he assumed the rectorship of the church of the Evangelists, New York, and in 1863 that of St. John's church, Cohoes, New York He was secretary of the convention of Albany in 1868, and archdeacon of the Albany convocation in 1870.
He was chosen to be the first bishop of the diocese of Fond du Lae, Wisconsin, and was consecrated in Cohoes, 15 December, 1875.
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 Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Omaha Nebraska -- Apse Windows -- St. Philip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Henry Hobart was the third Bishop of New York.
Bishop Hobart had previously been on staff at Trinity Church New York.
Bishop Hobart was a luminary of the Episcopal church in the 19th century.
www.brownell.edu /~trinity/apse_windows_st_philip.htm   (132 words)

  
 John Henry Affair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Henry claimed to be a British agent charged with the mission of
Henry was really an agent or if he and his partner, Edward de
There is an excellent account of the John Henry affair in Donald
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 BIO: James Lloyd Breck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Breck and his companions (John Henry Hobart, Jr, son of Bishop Hobart of New York (see 12 Sept), and William Adams, from Dublin) intended a Brotherhood that would function very much along monastic lines.
Although none of the brothers took solemn vows, they agreed to place their money in a common purse, to live under the direction of a Prior, and to devote regular times each day to communal worship.
We have spent all, or about all, the money that Brother Hobart collected in the East, in the purchase of our land and the building of a small frame house; and now we are poor, but the poor of CHRIST, and therefore have nothing to apprehend.
www.hillsdale.edu /Personal/Westblade/REL/Biography/04/02.html   (1200 words)

  
 CDSP: Fresh Thinking Forever Changed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It will not surprise you that I have wrestled with myself as to whether I should try to say anything today: you are numb; I am numb.
Obviously, we are not about business as usual, and so we are not commemorating John Henry Hobart as we had expected to do.
But I asked myself last night if the readings which were assigned for his commemoration speak to us about how we as Christians should respond to the horror of yesterday's events.
www.cdsp.edu /freshthinking/fc_lweil9-12.html   (434 words)

  
 What is Anglo-Catholicism? Part Four   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Thus, many Episcopalians found the high-church position attractive because it offered the most persuasive justification for the continued existence of a separate Episcopal Church in America after the Revolution had severed ties with the Church of England.
In 1823, John Henry Hobart, the high-church Bishop of New York, visited Oxford, where he made a positive impression on the future Tractarian leaders John Keble and John Henry Newman.
In 1866, during an extended stay in England, Grafton had been one of the founding members of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, also known as the Cowley Fathers, the first Anglican religious order for men since the Reformation.
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 Episcopal Diocese of Albany NY - Bp Herzog's Priests and Deacons Update   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Clow is doing a good job of leading this mission-minded team.
In preparing I discovered that the first bishop of that diocese came from the diocese of Albany in 1875.
He was John Henry Hobart Brown, rector of Cohoes and in 1870 Archdeacon of Albany as well as the Secretary of the Convention.
www.albanyepiscopaldiocese.org /equipping/newsitems/pdupdate09.html   (701 words)

  
 Anglicans Online | New This Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Walmsley: Ninth Bishop of Sierra Leone, by E.G. Walmsley (1923).
John Walmsley was Bishop of Sierra Leone, which then consisted of Morocco, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, and the Canary Islands.
This is a brief examination of the history of the Book of Common Prayer, and introduction to the contents and use of the 1892 BCP of the American Episcopal Church.
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 LM
In colonial America a high church party emerged in Connecticut when four Congregationalist ministers decided their ordinations were invalid, and went to England to be ordained deacons and priests.
After the American Revolution, a new high church party emerged under the leadership of John Henry Hobart of New York.
This party stressed adherence to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Episcopal Church.
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 Theology Today - Vol 43, No. 3 - October 1986 - BOOK NOTES - Episcopal Vision/American Reality: High Church Theology ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He explains how the Episcopal Church's identification with Great Britain during the American Revolution forced its adherents to advocate a stricter separation of church and state, and, at the same time, highlight its distinctively high church roots after that political upheaval.
The theology of Bishop John Henry Hobart represented this trend, and Mullin provides an excellent analysis of the ecclesiastical and social implications of Hobart's views as well as their decline under the new pressures of pre-Civil War America.
Unlike many works of this type, Mullin also manages to encapsulate the views of the evangelical community in such a fair and succinct manner that the book is worth reading if only for the summary treatments of the majority perspective.
theologytoday.ptsem.edu /oct1986/v43-3-booknotes7.htm   (198 words)

  
 Are you a fundamentalist?
John Henry Hobart, bishop of New York in the early 19th century, taught that the church was the Ark of Salvation.
If you were in the Art (and the Apostolic Succession and sacraments were visible guarantees that one was) then you had the objective assurance of salvation.
They were not delivered to one single person at one time as an oracle from God but had many authors who wrote over centuries in a variety of historical contexts.
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General Ward's Tiffany Kepi that he wore during the Battle of Gettysburg
General John Henry Hobart Ward - General John Henry Hobart Ward - a beautiful general's kepi made by Tiffany of New York and worn by General Ward during the Battle of Gettysburg.
This is the finest Union general's kepi in private hands, it is of French style made of dark blue wool broadcloth and has six strands of gold quatrefoil around the top of the band, up the sides, front and back.
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 The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Christian Cyclopedia
Henry* VIII joined this league November 1511; Maximilian I (1459–1519; king of Ger.
1576 under leadership of Henri I de Lorraine and his two brothers, Charles, duke of Mayenne, and Louis, abp.
Reims and cardinal, aimed to destroy Calvinism and reest.
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 Expansion, Imperialism, and the American Frontier
Hobart, Williams pursue mission among Oneidas, then Green Bay.
See the Vision Statement "Companions in Transformation" (PDF-file) of the Standing Committee on World Mission to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church of 2003.
John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal, South Africa
www.cdsp.edu /~mgrau/courses/hsst2189/amfrontier.htm   (927 words)

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