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Crozer died in 1866. When Old Main was vacated by the Pennsylvania Military Academy his family converted the school to the Crozer Theological Seminary in his honor. His son recruited faculty for the new mission, It served as an
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to use the building as a hospital during the Civil War. The hospital contained a thousand beds and accommodated 300 nurses, attendants and guards. The patients were almost exclusively Union soldiers except for after the
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soldiers left on the battlefield required their acceptance at the hospital. During the war, more than 6,000 patients were treated. Many of the dead from the hospital were some of the first burials at nearby
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in Chester, Pennsylvania, executive director of the National Baptist Association, editor of the National Baptist Voice, mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., first African-American graduate of Crozer Theological
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Downing, Frederick L. (1986). To See the Promised Land: The Faith Pilgrimage of Martin Luther King, Jr. Mercer University Press. p. 150. ISBN 0-86554-207-4
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was a student at Crozer Theological Seminary from 1948 to 1951, being elected student body president and graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity degree.
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Nojeim, Michael J. (2004). Gandhi and King: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 179. ISBN 0-275-96574-0
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After the war, the building was repossessed by Crozer and subsequently sold to Colonel Theodore Hyatt for use as the
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Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania
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Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania
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and the seminary's Old Main building was subsequently used as office space by Crozer Hospital (now part of the
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A genetic history of Baptist thought : with special reference to Baptists in Britain and North America
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Frady, Marshall (2002). Martin Luther King Jr.: A Life. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-303648-7.
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stone library on the campus which opened on June 4, 1871. The building was sponsored by
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In 1970, the seminary merged with the Rochester Theological Seminary, forming the
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Hospital buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
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from 1868 to 1970. Henry G. Watson was named its first President in 1869.
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National Register of Historic Places in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania Register of Historic Sites and Landmarks (June 1972).
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Uplandboro.org history of Crozer theological seminary
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Upland, Pennsylvania
Crozer Theological Seminary is located in Pennsylvania
Crozer Theological Seminary is located in the United States
Upland, Pennsylvania
39°51′21″N 75°22′17″W / 39.85583°N 75.37139°W / 39.85583; -75.37139
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Baptist
seminary
Upland, Pennsylvania
John Price Crozer
Martin Luther King Jr.
Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
Rochester, New York
Crozer-Chester Medical Center
stucco
cupola
Crozer Arboretum
National Register of Historic Places




Normal School
Upland
American Baptist Publication Society
American Civil War
Union army
battle of Gettysburg

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