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Albert Barnes was a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia involved in the New School/Old School dispute, whose experience influenced the founding of Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he was on the Board of Directors from 1840-1870. This collection contains 29 manuscript sermons.

Isaac Swift (1845-1937); UTS class of 1969; Presbyterian minister in New York and Michigan parishes; served as pastor (later pastor emeritus) in Syracuse, NY, 1878-1929. The collection contains one bound manuscript (310 pages) of lectures Swift attended at Union Theological Seminary, dated September 15, 1866. Lectures by William G. T. Shedd, C. A. Van Dyck, Thomas Skinner, and Albert Barnes.