Guide to the Associate Theological Seminary (Canonsburg, Pa.) Associate Society of Inquiry Records

Descriptive Summary

Title

Associate Theological Seminary (Canonsburg, Pa.) Associate Society of Inquiry Records

Inclusive Dates

1836-1847

Call Number

RG 337

Creator(s)

Associate Theological Seminary (Canonsburg, Pa.). Associate Society of Inquiry.

Quantity

0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

Restrictions on Access

Open for research.

Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Administrative History

Canonsburg Theological Seminary was a seminary of the Associate Presbyterian Church. The seminary originated as Service Theological Seminary established in 1794 in western Pennsylvania. In 1821 the seminary was removed to Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, southwest of Pittsburgh, where it remained until it was transferred to Xenia, Ohio in 1855. The Associate Society of Inquiry, an organization of the students to correspond with missionaries, was organized at the seminary.

Collection Overview

Record Group 337 consists of one folder of letters from ministers in Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Montreal, Lower Canada, and a letter from the Rev. Joseph Banks, a missionary in the brief Associate Presbyterian mission to Trinidad in the Caribbean. There is also a fraternal letter from the Society of Inquiry of the Reformed Presbyterian Church.

Some of the letters are fragile and should be handled carefully.

Administrative Information

Processing Information

Collection processed and finding aid prepared: December 1992
Glenn Colliver, Assistant Archivist

Catalog Headings

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in the society’s electronic catalog.

Corporate Subject

Associate Theological Seminary (Canonsburg, Pa.). Associate Society of Inquiry.

Topical Subject

Seminarians--Societies and clubs, etc.

Missionaries--Correspondence--19th century.

Genre-form

Correspondence. aat

Personal Added Name

Banks, Joseph, 1806-1859.

Corporate Added Name

Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Society of Inquiry.

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description	Alternative Formats

1	1	Letters, 1836-1847

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