Nathaniel Clarke Locke papers, 1840 -- 1859
Collection context
- Creator:
- Locke, Nathaniel Clark
- Abstract:
- Nathaniel Clark Locke was a UTS alumnus of 1844, Presbyterian Minister, and home missionary working in Virginia and Maine, as well as a Pastor of Central Church in Brooklyn and Hempstead Church on Long Island. The collection contains 92 sermons written and delivered by Locke from 1843 to 1859, as well as lectures and essays.
- Extent:
- 1.75 linear feet 1.75 linear feet; 4 boxes
- Language:
- English .
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains 92 sermons written and delivered by Locke from 1843 to 1859, as well as lectures and essays. Sermon titles and location of delivery are noted on each sermon within folders.
- Biographical / historical:
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Nathaniel Clarke Locke was born on June 1, 1816, in Salem, New Jersey. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1838, and became a teacher in Loundesboro, Vermont, from 1838-1841. Locke then entered Union Theological Seminary and graduated in 1844. The following year, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister in Hanover, Maine, and served as a home missionary in Eastville, Virginia, from 1844 to 1846. His sermons indicate that between November of 1846 and October of 1847, Locke was the minister of Holmes Church in Northampton, Virginia, although biographical information on Locke provides no record of this. He seems to have left this church under ambiguous circumstances. He preached fire and brimstone and focused most often on the temptations of sin, the lusts of the passions, and the terrors of damnation. From Virginia, he went to Brooklyn and became pastor of Central Church in December, 1847. In 1850, he went to Hempstead, Long Island, and in 1852 he became the pastor of the Hempstead church until 1860. In 1858 he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity from the University of Alabama. He died in July of 1862 at the age of 46.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection is open for research.
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- Preferred citation:
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Item description, UTS1: Nathaniel Clarke Locke papers, 1840-1859, box #, folder #, The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University in the City of New York.
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