First Women Ordained Minister: Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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N 43° 03.094 W 077° 35.845
18T E 288460 N 4769815
National Register of Historical Places identifies the stone house at this site as the location best associated with Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell and most relevant in its current condition, to her life.
Waymark Code: WMDF3Q
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 01/07/2012
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Born Antoinette Louisa Brown graduated from Monroe Academy in 1840 at the age of 15. Her family was deeply involved inthe evangelical religious revivals that swept across the "burned-over" district of central western New York during the early nineteenth century, which greatly influenced her life as a theologian, and as a feminist. (The mid- to late- nineteenth century reform movements of abolitionism, temperance and sufferage all coming from the the Liberal Congregationalist movement that stressed God's mercy and forgiveness.)
She attended Oberlin College in 1847 and studied at Oberlin Seminary until 1850, she was refused a degree and ordination due to her gender. (Her name did not appear on the official listings of the Oberlin theological class of 1850 until 1908.)
The Congregational Church of South Butler, NY inducted Brown as minister on September 15, 1853, making her the first woman ordained minister to a regular Protestant denomination in the United States.
Antoinette came to share Charles Finney's (associated with Presbyterianism locally) concept of the individual's lifelong commitment to God and the betterment of society through good works. In 1893, she published her philosophy/theology: "The Philosophy of the Individual, or The One and The Many"
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 09/15/1853
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