RARE “American Education Society\" Bela Bates Edwards Hand Written Letter COA For Sale


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RARE “American Education Society\" Bela Bates Edwards Hand Written Letter COA:
$199.99

Up for sale "American Education Society" Bela Bates Edwards Hand Written Letter Dated 1848. This item is

certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Certificate of

Authenticity.  

ES-9129



Bela Bates Edwards (1802–1852) was an American man of

letters. Edwards was born at Southampton, Massachusetts, on 4 July

1802. He graduated at Amherst College in 1824, was a tutor there from

1827 to 1828, graduated at Andover Theological Seminary in 1830, and

was licensed to preach.

From 1828 to 1833 he was assistant Secretary of the American

Education Society (organized in Boston

in 1815 to assist students for the ministry), and from 1828 to 1842 was

editor of the society's newsletter, which after 1831 was called the American

Quarterly Register.

He also founded (in 1833) and edited

the American Quarterly Observer; from 1836 to 1841 edited the Biblical

Repository (after 1837 called the American Biblical Repository) with

which the Observer was merged in 1835; and was editor-in-chief of Bibliotheca

Sacra from 1844 to 1851. In 1837 he became professor of Hebrew

at Andover Theological Seminary, and from 1848 until his death was associate

professor of sacred literature there. He was a founder of the Society for

Ameliorating the Condition of the Slave and of the American

Missionary Society.[ He died at Athens,

Georgia, on 20 April 1852.






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