Person:Jonathan Stearns (7)

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Name[2] Rev. Jonathan French Stearns, D.D.
Gender Male
Birth[1] 4 Sep 1808 Bedford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Death[2] 1889 New Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States
Burial[3] Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, United States
References
  1. Bedford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Bedford, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
    p. 51.

    STEARNS, Jonathan French, s. Rev. Samuel and Abigail, [born] Sept. 4, 1808.

  2. 2.0 2.1 Biographical Catalogue of the Trustees, Teachers and Students of Phillips Academy Andover 1778-1830. (Andover, Massachusetts: The Andover Press, 1903)
    12, 132.

    Jonathan French Stearns, 15, Bedford. H. 1830. *1889
    Son of Rev. Samuel Stearns and Abigail French;
    brother of Samuel H.. 1818, and William A., 1820.
    — At Mr. J.L. Abbot's.
    Graduated 1826.
    — And. Theol. Sem. (1835), studying also with his father at Bedford, and his brother Rev. William A. Stearns, at Cambridgeport.
    Pastor, Newburyport, 1835-89; Newark, N.J., 1849-82, afterwards pastor emeritus.
    Director Union Theol. Sem. ;
    president of directors of German Theol. Sem., Bloomfield, N.J.
    Moderator of Presb. Gen Assembly, 1868.
    D.D.
    Participated in exercises of semi-centennial anniversary of "Philo," (of which he was one of the founders), 1875, and of the Centennial Celebration, 1878.
    Died at New Brunswick, N.J.
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    [H = Harvard]

  3. JONATHAN FRENCH STEARNS @ logcollegepress.com.

    [includes photos and several of his sermons and addresses]