Joel Parker (born Bethel, Vermont, 27 August 1799; died New York City, 2 May 1873) was a United States Presbyterian clergyman and educator. Rev. Joel Parker also authored another work titled, "Lectures on Universalism" - Published in 1841 by John S. Taylor & Co. Brick Church Chapel 145 Nassau St. New York, New York ( Opposite the Tract House). The printer was S.W.Benedict 128 Fulton St. New York.
He graduated from Hamilton in 1824, and after studying at the Auburn Theological Seminary was ordained in the Presbyterian Church. He was pastor at Rochester in 1826-30. Attracted by the free church movement, in 1830 he went to New York City. The movement looked to provide church services to people who could not afford high pew rents. Parker organized the Dey Street Church in New York whose seats were free. He served as its pastor. [1] In 1833, he was called to Louisiana to pastor First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans. In 1834 Rev. Parker went back up to New York to solicit subscriptions for a new church building. While away in New York rumors reached New Orleans that he had vilified the Roman Catholic community of New Orleans saint that "there were about 40,000 catholics in New Orleans, most of who were atheists (at least the men) and that they regarded religion as only good for women and servants". These reports were later proved to have been false, but before his returning November 1834 he was hung in effigy once or twice in the city. There were resolutions within the population of New Orleans demanding that First Presbyterian discharge him, but the congregation refused to bow to the pressure and Rev. Parker remained until June 1838 when he returned to New York. [2] In 1838-40 he was in charge of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church on Broadway in New York. Upon its being closed he became president of the Union Theological Seminary and occupied the chair of sacred rhetoric. He later held charges in Philadelphia in 1842-54, in New York at the Bleecker Street Presbyterian Church in 1854-63 and at Newark, New Jersey, in 1863-68.
He was for a time associate editor of the Presbyterian Quarterly Review and was author of:
He edited the Sermons of Rev. John W. Adams, with a memoir (1851).
Albert Barnes was an American theologian, clergyman, abolitionist, temperance advocate, and author. Barnes is best known for his extensive Bible commentary and notes on the Old and New Testaments, published in a total of 14 volumes in the 1830s.
Lyman Beecher was a Presbyterian minister, and the father of 13 children, many of whom became writers or ministers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, Edward Beecher, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Catharine Beecher, and Thomas K. Beecher.
Philip Milledoler was an American Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed minister and the fifth President of Rutgers College serving from 1825 until 1840.
William Buell Sprague was an American Congregational and Presbyterian clergyman and compiler of Annals of the American Pulpit, a comprehensive biographical dictionary of the leading American Protestant Christian ministers who died before 1850.
Charles Beecher was an American minister, composer of religious hymns and a prolific author.
Linus Parker was a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1882.
William Adams was a noted American clergyman and academic.
Samuel Penny (1808-1853) was an American Episcopal clergyman. Born to Presbyterian parents in New York, he attended Lane Theological Seminary before joining the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. A graduate of Columbia University and the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, Penny was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 1838. He served most of his ordained ministry in charge of Emmanuel Church, Manville, Rhode Island, leaving briefly to accompany Bishop Horatio Southgate on a missionary journey to the Ottoman Empire.
Samuel Miller was a Presbyterian theologian who taught at Princeton Theological Seminary.
William Russell was an educator and elocutionist. He was formally educated in the Latin school and in the university of Glasgow; and, he came to the US in 1819, wherein that year, he took charge of Chatham Academy in Savannah, Georgia. He moved to New Haven, Connecticut, a few years later, and there he taught in the New Township Academy and also in the Hopkins Grammar School. He then devoted himself to the instruction of classes in elocution in Andover, Harvard, and Boston, Massachusetts. He edited the American Journal of Education 1826–1829. In 1830, he taught in a girls' school in Germantown, Pennsylvania, for a time with Bronson Alcott. He resumed his elocution classes in Boston and Andover in 1838, and he lectured extensively in New England and in New York State. He established a teachers' institute in New Hampshire in 1849, which he then moved to Lancaster, Massachusetts, in 1853. His subsequent life was devoted to lecturing, for the most part, before the Massachusetts teachers' institutes, under the guidance and instruction of the state board of education.
West Presbyterian Church was a congregation and two houses of worship in Manhattan, New York City. The congregation was founded in 1829 and merged in 1911 with Park Presbyterian Church to form West-Park Presbyterian Church. The first house of worship, also known as the Carmine Street Presbyterian Church, in Greenwich Village, was used from 1832 to 1865, and the second, on West 42nd Street between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue, from 1865 until 1911, when it was sold and demolished. Proceeds from the sale were used, in accordance with the merger agreement, to build and endow a church for an underserved neighborhood, Washington Heights: Fort Washington Presbyterian Church. In addition, the West Church congregation had earlier established two mission churches which eventually merged to become Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church. West-Park, Fort Washington, and Good Shepherd-Faith are all active today.
Robert Lodowick Stanton D.D. was an American Presbyterian minister, educator and college administrator. He served as president of Miami University of Ohio from 1868 to 1871. He also served as president of Oakland College in Mississippi.
John Michael Krebs was a Presbyterian clergyman of the United States. He was president of the Princeton Theological Seminary 1865–1867.
Cortlandt Van Rensselaer was a Presbyterian clergyman from the United States.
Stephen Winchester Dana was an American clergyman.
Theodore Clapp was an American minister.
William Davis Sodgrass was an American Presbyterian clergyman, president of the board of trustees of Princeton Theological Seminary.
William Henry Goodrich was a 19th-century American clergyman, the namesake of the Goodrich Social Settlement in Cleveland, Ohio. He served as pastor of First Church, Bristol, Connecticut (1850-54); Presbyterian Church, Binghamton, New York (1854-58); and First Presbyterian Church, Cleveland (1858-72). He served as president of Alpha Delta Phi.
Edward A. Lawrence, Sr., A.M., D.D. was a 19th-century American Congregational pastor and author. He ministered to congregations in Haverhill, Massachusetts, Marblehead, Massachusetts, and Orford, New Hampshire. He was also a professor of Ecclesiastical History and Pastoral Duty at the Theological Institute of East Windsor, Connecticut, and wrote several publications, books, pamphlets, and essays.
William Anderson Scott was an American Presbyterian minister and author.