Biography of Daniel Christian Flory: Founder of Bridgewater College

Flory, Byron Morton

Verlag: Brethren Pub. House

Beschreibung

[1954] B.M. Flory / Brethren Pub. House (Elgin, Illinois), 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches tall stapled paperbound in pale blue printed covers, illustrated with black-and-white photograph and facsimiles, 31 pp. Slight to moderate soiling/staining and rubbing to covers. Slight soiling to title page. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce biography. ~SP19~ [0.5P] An illustrated biography of Daniel C. Flory (1854-1914), a prominent minister of the Church of the Brethren and the founder and first president of Bridgewater College, a private liberal-arts college in Bridgewater, Virginia. Established in 1880, Bridgewater College admitted both men and women from the time of its founding and was the first private, co-educational, liberal arts college in Virginia to do so. The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination with origins in the Schwarzenau Brethren that was organized in 1708 by Alexander Mack in Schwarzenau, Germany, as a melding of the Radical Pietist and Anabaptist movements. The denomination holds the New Testament as its only creed. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers SP19-0891-10959

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Titel: Biography of Daniel Christian Flory: Founder...

Verlag: Brethren Pub. House

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