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American Christian Orientalist; born at Stonington, Conn., June 8, 1830; died at Philadelphia Dec. 8, 1903. He was educated at Williston Seminary, Mass., and took up Sunday-school work, becoming in 1858 state missionary of the American Sunday-School Association, and in 1865 the New England secretary of the American Sunday-School Union. In 1875 he took charge of the "Sunday School Times," which he made an organ of considerable influence, even in scholarly circles. In 1881 ill health caused him to travel. He visited Egypt, Arabia, and Syria, and during the journey he identified the site of Kadeshbarnea, on which he wrote a monograph (Philadelphia, 1884). He wrote also "Studies in Oriental Social Life" (1894), dealing especially with the aspects which threw light upon Biblical archeology; and two works of considerable influence; namely, "The Blood Covenant" (New York, 1885), in which he laid down the theory, afterward developed by W. R. Smith, that sacrifice was a blood covenant; and "The Threshold Covenant" (1896; see Threshold).

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    Henry Clay Trumbull Collection (34 vols.)

    The Henry Clay Trumbull collection contains 32 of Henry Clay Trumbull’s best books, a biography detailing Trumbull’s life, and several of his essays. An outstanding chaplain in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Trumbull was also the preeminent leader of the Sunday School Movement, which is largely responsible for the standard convention of Sunday school at churches nationwide. His writings contain rare and unique insight into the daily spiritual life of soldiers during the Civil War, the political and spiritual issues behind the initial organization of Sunday schools, and Trumbull’s own deep research into Old Testament history and theology.

    This collection includes studies of Middle East culture in Studies in Oriental Social Life and Child Life in Many Lands as well as biographies and eulogies, including the page-turning Falling in Harness and the personal, intimate account of The Knightly Soldier. This collection is a must-have for Civil War readers and for those following American church movements.

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    Henry Clay Trumbull (1830 - 1903)

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    Born in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States
    Ancestors

    Son of Gurdon Trumbull and Sarah Ann (Swan) Trumbull

    Brother of Gurdon Swan Trumbull, Frances Swan Trumbull, James Hammond Trumbull, William Palmer Trumbull, Mary Hollister (Trumbull) Prime, Charles Edward Trumbull, Thomas Swan Trumbull, S Anna (Trumbull) Slosson and Gurdon Trumbull Jr.

    Descendants

    Father of Mary Prime (Trumbull) Field and Anne Slosson (Trumbull) Howard

    Died at age 73in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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    Biography

    Rev. Henry Clay Trumbull was born on 8 Jun 1830 in Stonington, Connecticut to parents Gurdon Trumbull and Sarah Swan. He married Alice Cogswell Gallaudet on 23 May 1852 in Hartford, Connecticut. Children: Sophia Gallaudet, Alice Gallaudet, Mary Prime, Fanny, Alice Gallaudet, Henry Camp, Anne (Annie) Slosson, Charles Gallaudet, Katherine Gallaudet. He died on 8 Dec 1903 i

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