RARE “Anti Slavery Advocate”Robert Collyer Hand Written Letter Dated 1891 For Sale

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RARE “Anti Slavery Advocate”Robert Collyer Hand Written Letter Dated 1891:
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Up for sale "Unitarian Clergyman" Robert Collyer Hand Written Letter Dated 1891.

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Robert Collyer (1823–1912) was an English-born was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, England, on December 8, 1823; the

family moved to Blubberhouses within a month of his birth. At the age of eight he was

compelled to leave school and support himself by work in a linen factory. He was

naturally studious, however, and supplemented his scant schooling by night

study. At fourteen he was apprenticed to a blacksmith,

Jacky Birch—who had taught the trade to Samuel Collyer, Robert's father, in

Blubberhouses–and for several years worked at

this trade at Ilkley.

In 1849 he became a local Methodist minister. In the same year, his wife Harriet died on

1 February, and his infant daughter Jane on 4 February. In the following year emigrated to

the United States,

where he obtained employment as a hammer maker at Shoemakersville, Pennsylvania. Here he

soon began to preach on Sundays while still employed in the factory on

weekdays. His earnest, rugged, simple style of oratory

made him extremely popular, and at once secured for him a wide reputation. His

advocacy of anti-slavery principles,

then frowned upon by the Methodist authorities, aroused opposition, and

eventually resulted in his trial for heresy

and the revocation of his licence. He continued, however, as an independent preacher

and lecturer, and in 1859, having joined the Unitarian

Church, became a missionary of that church in Chicago,

Illinois working as the first minister-at-large of the First Unitarian Church of Chicago.[2] In 1860 he organized and became

pastor of the Unity Church, the second Unitarian church in Chicago. Under his

guidance the church grew to be one of the strongest of that denomination in the

West, and Collyer himself came to be looked upon as one of the foremost pulpit

orators in the country. During the American Civil War, he was active in the work

of the Sanitary Commission. In 1879 he left Chicago

and became pastor of the Church of the Messiah, now renamed

the Community Church in New York City.

Later he brought his old friend, the popular writer and hymnodist, Minot Judson Savage, to assist him in his

ministry. In 1883, when he visited Birmingham in England, he engaged Marie Bethell Beauclerc to report and edit

his sermons and prayers which were published during the same year. Collyer was

invited to be a featured speaker at the 14th Annual Convention of the American Woman Suffrage Association

(AWSA). There, on the evening of October 10, 1883, he spoke of his wife and his

thoughts on the women's rights movement.

RARE “Anti Slavery Advocate”Robert Collyer Hand Written Letter Dated 1891

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