Fonds F3007 - Benjamin Fish Austin fonds

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Benjamin Fish Austin fonds

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CA ON00340 F3007

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  • 1881-1917 (Creation)
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    Austin, Benjamin Fish, 1850-1933

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7 cm of textual records

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(1850-1933)

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Benjamin Fish Austin, (1850-1933), was a Methodist minister and Principal of Alma College who was expelled from the church on charges of heresy. He was born in Brighton, Ontario in 1850. He received his B.A. from Albert College and his D.D. degree from Victoria College in 1872. He was ordained as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872. Rev. Austin was Principal of Alma College from 1881 to 1897, when he resigned. He was expelled from the Church in 1899 on charges of heresy. He was a publisher and writer on spiritualism. He was pastor of Plymouth Spiritual Church, Rochester, New York, from 1906 to 1913 and in Los Angeles from 1913.

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This material forms part of the General Council program of the United Church of Canada Archive.

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Fonds consists of correspondence and a scrapbook, 1881-1917.

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    1986.016C

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