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3 unusual facts about Cobb Divinity School


Cobb Divinity School

From 1854 to 1870, the divinity school was located in New Hampton, New Hampshire and affiliated with the New Hampton Institute.

In 1888, it was renamed Cobb Divinity School in honor of J.L.H Cobb, a prominent businessman at the Bates Mill in Lewiston who had donated $25,000 to the Divinity School at Bates.

New Hampton, New Hampshire

From 1854 to 1870, the institute was affiliated with Cobb Divinity School (later part of Bates College).


John Jay Butler

The highlights of his teaching career included holding the professorship of systematic theology in the Whitestown Seminary at Whitestown, New York for 10 years, as well as holding the professorship of systematic theology in the seminary at New Hampton, New Hampshire for 16 years, and in Bates College at Lewiston, Maine for 3 years.


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