Certificate from the American Bible Society for a contribution of $30 by Mrs. Mary A. Hahn, North Lima, Ohio. Dated March 23, 1861. Signed by Theodore Frelinghuysen as President and John C. Brigham as Corresponding Secretary (a post he held from the late 1830s through 1861). In period frame, 11.5 x 15.5 in. (sight). Theodore Frelinghuysen (1787 - 1862) was born in New Jersey. He graduated from what is now Princeton Univ. and studied law under his brother, John, and Richard Stockton. He set up a law practice in Newark, but left to serve in the War of 1812. In 1817 he became Attorney General of the state, but turned down an appointment to the state Supreme Court. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1829, where he represented New Jersey until 1835. He opposed Jackson's Indian Removal Act, speaking against it over three days. William Lloyd Garrison memorialized this in a poem. The Act was passed anyway. After leaving the Senate, he was elected Mayor of Newark, serving 1837-1838. In 1844 he was selected as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Whig party, running with Henry Clay. Frelinghuysen held a number of views that made him unpopular with large segments of the voters - such as Southerners (who hated Garrison's abolitionism and had been suffering Indian attacks) and Catholics (the Bible Society's official policy was that Catholics should convert to Protestantism). Clay and Frelinghuysen were defeated by James K. Polk (Clay was also opposed to the annexation of Texas). After this venture into national politics, Frelinghuysen became the second President of New York University (1839-1850) and Seventh President of Rutgers (1850-1862). He served on many other boards and committees, several as President (American Tract Society, Foreign Missions) or Vice President (American Sunday School Union, American Colonization Society). John C. Brigham was born in 1794 in Massachusetts, the family moving to New York when he was twelve years old. He returned to Massachusetts at 20, then attended Williams College and Andover Theological Seminary. His early public service was with Foreign Missions in South America. His foreign experience led him to emphasize overseas publications when he became associated with the American Bible Society as its Corresponding Secretary. As pointed out in his funeral memorial, in 1826, the Society printed Bibles in seven languages, primarily for immigrants to America who were not yet comfortable with English. By the time Brigham died in 1862, publications were issued in 34 languages and distribution was global. Condition: Not removed from frame for examination.
Certificate from the American Bible Society for a contribution of $30 by Mrs. Mary A. Hahn, North Lima, Ohio. Dated March 23, 1861. Signed by Theodore Frelinghuysen as President and John C. Brigham as Corresponding Secretary (a post he held from the late 1830s through 1861). In period frame, 11.5 x 15.5 in. (sight). Theodore Frelinghuysen (1787 - 1862) was born in New Jersey. He graduated from what is now Princeton Univ. and studied law under his brother, John, and Richard Stockton. He set up a law practice in Newark, but left to serve in the War of 1812. In 1817 he became Attorney General of the state, but turned down an appointment to the state Supreme Court. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1829, where he represented New Jersey until 1835. He opposed Jackson's Indian Removal Act, speaking against it over three days. William Lloyd Garrison memorialized this in a poem. The Act was passed anyway. After leaving the Senate, he was elected Mayor of Newark, serving 1837-1838. In 1844 he was selected as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Whig party, running with Henry Clay. Frelinghuysen held a number of views that made him unpopular with large segments of the voters - such as Southerners (who hated Garrison's abolitionism and had been suffering Indian attacks) and Catholics (the Bible Society's official policy was that Catholics should convert to Protestantism). Clay and Frelinghuysen were defeated by James K. Polk (Clay was also opposed to the annexation of Texas). After this venture into national politics, Frelinghuysen became the second President of New York University (1839-1850) and Seventh President of Rutgers (1850-1862). He served on many other boards and committees, several as President (American Tract Society, Foreign Missions) or Vice President (American Sunday School Union, American Colonization Society). John C. Brigham was born in 1794 in Massachusetts, the family moving to New York when he was twelve years old. He returned to Massachusetts at 20, then attended Williams College and Andover Theological Seminary. His early public service was with Foreign Missions in South America. His foreign experience led him to emphasize overseas publications when he became associated with the American Bible Society as its Corresponding Secretary. As pointed out in his funeral memorial, in 1826, the Society printed Bibles in seven languages, primarily for immigrants to America who were not yet comfortable with English. By the time Brigham died in 1862, publications were issued in 34 languages and distribution was global. Condition: Not removed from frame for examination.
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