RARE “American Education Society" Bela Bates Edwards Hand Written Letter COA For Sale
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RARE “American Education Society" Bela Bates Edwards Hand Written Letter COA:
$139.99
Up for sale "American Education Society" Bela Bates Edwards Hand Written Letter Dated 1848. This item is
certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Certificate of
Authenticity.
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Bela Bates Edwards (1802–1852) was an American man of
letters. Edwards was born at Southampton, Massachusetts, on 4 July
1802. He graduated at Amherst College in 1824, was a tutor there from
1827 to 1828, graduated at Andover Theological Seminary in 1830, and
was licensed to preach.
From 1828 to 1833 he was assistant Secretary of the American
Education Society (organized in Boston
in 1815 to assist students for the ministry), and from 1828 to 1842 was
editor of the society's newsletter, which after 1831 was called the American
Quarterly Register.
He also founded (in 1833) and edited
the American Quarterly Observer; from 1836 to 1841 edited the Biblical
Repository (after 1837 called the American Biblical Repository) with
which the Observer was merged in 1835; and was editor-in-chief of Bibliotheca
Sacra from 1844 to 1851. In 1837 he became professor of Hebrew
at Andover Theological Seminary, and from 1848 until his death was associate
professor of sacred literature there. He was a founder of the Society for
Ameliorating the Condition of the Slave and of the American
Missionary Society.[ He died at Athens,
Georgia, on 20 April 1852.
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