Laurens Perseus Hickok Papers, 1822-1875 (bulk 1830-1845)
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Hickok Papers
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Hickok, Laurens P. (Laurens Perseus), 1798-1888
Biographical History for: Hickok Papers
Biographical Note Laurens Perseus Hickok was born in 1798 in Bethel, Connecticut. His teaching career began even before his career as a college student when he opened a small private school in Bethel. When he was twenty, Hickok entered Union College as a junior. Upon returning home he married his former student in Bethel, Elizabeth Taylor. Through this marriage he became related to Mrs. Hickok's brother-in-law, Deacon Seth Seelye (whose son, Julius Hawley Seelye, went on to become Amherst College's 5th president). Hickok then decided to become a minister. He received no formal education in theology, but instead apprenticed himself to practicing ministers. He was pastor of the church at Kent for six years, and went on to preach at Litchfield. In 1836, Hickok became Professor of Theology at Western Reserve University in Hudson, Ohio. In 1844 he moved to the Auburn Theological Seminary, where he taught as a professor for eight years. He returned to Union College in 1855 as Vice President and Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. He became president of Union in 1866, but resigned the same year due to continuing political opposition from a number of faculty and trustees. Hickok spent the last twenty years of his life in Amherst, where he influenced a whole generation of rising teachers and students of philosophy through his books (revised with the help of his nephew and former student, then President Julius Seelye). Hickok's works include Rational Psychology (1849) and Rational Cosmology (1858). Many of his sermons are included in this collection.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection includes correspondence, certificates and licenses, lectures, sermons, and other writings by Hickok. Sermons make up the bulk of the collection. Much of the correspondence in the collection concerns Hickok's uneasy career at Union College, from his appointment as Vice President to his resignation in 1866. The collection also contains some correspondence between Hickok and his family, including his wife, Elizabeth Taylor Hickok.
Sermons, American--Connecticut.
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Sermons, American--Massachusetts.
Sermons, American--New York (State)
Congregational churches--Clergy--Biography--Sources.
Hickok, Laurens P. (Laurens Perseus), 1798-1888.
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Hickok, Elizabeth Taylor.
Union College (Schenectady, N.Y.)--Presidents.
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Series 1: Correspondence
Correspondence to Hickok from others
Correspondence from Hickok to others
Correspondence to Elizabeth Taylor Hickok (Mrs. L. P. Hickok)
Concerning appointment as Professor of Moral Philosophy and Vice-Presidency of Union College (with copies of replies)
Appointment as Professor of Moral Philosophy and Vice-Presidency (with copy of reply)
From President Eliphalet Nott, May 14, 1859, and Mrs. Urania Nott
To President Eliphalet Nott (reply to Nott's letter of May 14, 1859)
From President Nott (with copies of replies)
From President Nott - the commitment of College to the care of Vice President Hickok
Union College Investigation - Resolutions of Classes and Alumni
Report of Union College Investigation
L. P. Hickok from Asa D. Smith, President of Dartmouth College
L. P. Hickok from George W. Stewart and Rev. F. W. Flint
Union College investigation - Letter from Hon. Alonzo C. Paige with replies
L. P. Hickok from Samuel Seelye and Thomas Seelye - Congratulations upon the appointment as President of Union college
Acceptance of Resignation of President Hickok by the Board of Trustees
Calls to pastorates of Churches (with copies of replies)
Calls from colleges
Series 2: Certificates and Licenses
American Academy of Arts and Sciences - certificate
Agreements with Publishers, Copyright Certificates, Receipts
American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions - certificate
License to preach the Gospel - Eastern District of Fairfield County, Conn.
American Bible Society - Certificate of Membership
License to Solemnize Marriages
Membership certificates - Litchfield, Conn.:
American Tract Society
American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions
Connecticut Bible Society
Membership Certificates - Hudson, Ohio:
Societas Franklin Scientifica Rhetoricaque
Societas Phi Delta
American Home Missionary Society (director)
Certificate of Western Reserve Scholarship
Series 3: Family
Hickok genealogy and wills of Esther G. Hickok and Timothy B. Hickok
Copy of Bond from Sarah Jane Hickok and J. Lawrence Marcellus
Form and orders of service - Latin
Bankbook - Bank of Auburn, N. Y.
Life Sketch, and Union College booklet on Hickok
Tributes and Obituary Notices (with letter from Cornelia Martin)
Autograph Book
Series 4: Lectures, Sermons, and Manuscripts
A Course of Lectures Comprising a Body of Systematic Theology Delivered to the Middle Class of Auburn Theological Seminary, 1850-1851, Vol. 1
A Course of Lectures... Vol. 2
A Course of Lectures... Vol. 3
Mental and Moral Science (bound volume)
Positive Divine Instructions
The Two Administrations of the Divine Government over Mankind, vol. 1 and 2
Natural Theology
Moral Science
Mental Science
Doctrinal Theology, Vol. 1
Doctrinal Theology, Vol. 2
Evidence of Christianity
Lecture
Address to Union College students - Class of 1863
Lecture 7 - The Sermon in Connection with the Text
Lecture 12
Personal responsibility unwelcome to the wicked
God's Plans Supreme
John 1.40
The kind of interest in religious that may be trusted
Lectures in Outline Rhetoric - Lecture 1, The Province of Rhetoric
Moses' death instructive and encouraging
Unfruitful professors useless except in their destruction
Error is to be met by directly counteracting truth
A refusal to help the Lord
Regeneration
Compliance with Gospel in terms necessary
Man cannot subvert but may advance the truth of the Bible
American influences that are changing the world
Daniel 3.16-18
Roman 11.13-14
The strong will
An address to the pupils of the female seminary in North Granville, N.Y., July 30, 1863
Divine Truth awakes the hostility of unholy men
Charge to the Professor of Christian Theology, June 20, 1855
A wise self-reliance secures success
God never thankful
Charge to a Pastor
Wicked men dislike and good men approve all methods of applying divine truth
The sinfulness of selfishness
Public worship more acceptable to God than private devotion
God's law gives Christian stability
The difficulties and discouragements of the missionary enterprise, Feb. 3, 1848
The sin of presuming on the future
The Church safe
God uses restraints in his government of the wicked
The necessity of a wise adaptation of truth in order to the salvation of man
The free and fruitful activity of thinking men
The sin of presuming the on the future
Subordination of all things to Christ
What? and Why? Prayer
The full idea of Christianity in human life
The living activity of thinking men
Man must advance but cannot subvert truth
Willful ignorance brings judicial blindness
God's kingdom taken from the fruitless
The complete idea of the world's conversion to Jesus Christ
Theologic ideas
An education useless from certain defects
John 16.14 - Seminary 1852
Error must be met by that truth which directly counteracts it. - Youngstown, Aug. 6, 1839
Public worship more acceptable to God than private devotion - Nov. 7, 1841
The insensibility of man to the claims of religion
Matthew 13.28 - April 1829
The proper application and peculiarities of Christian comfort
Psalms 106.15 - Seminary, Oct. 1850
Missionary sermon, Matthew 6.10 - 1833
Exodus 24.12
New Year's Sermon - 1833, Hebrews 11.13
Amos 7.2 - 1841
I Corinthians 10.22
The nature, necessity, and practice of Holiness
Dedication sermon - public worship more acceptable to God than private devotion
Exodus 17.11-13
Psalms 19.8
Ezekiel 33.32 - June 28, 1843
Matthew 5.13 - June 24, 1850
Kings 5.18
Error must be directly met by counteracting truth
The necessity of sacrifices and the wisdom of making them
Influence of the Spirit
John 4.35
Genesis 22.1-2, 1824
The obligations to personal experimental religion paramount to all other considerations
Personal responsibility involved in the possession of moral faculties
II Samuel 6.6-7, 1824
Timothy 3.5, June 1834
Joshua 53.11, 1824
Joshua 59.1-2, 1833
Leviticus 25.9-10, 1823
Hebrews 13.17
Hebrews 13.17 - 1836
Hebrews 13.17 -1846
Eulogy for Leonard Lathrop
Lecture to the students of Western Reserve College - Rational self-confidence is the secret to success
It is easy to go down and win - the door stands open night and day - but it is hard work to get back
The can because they think they can
Lecture before the students of Western Reserve College - Nature of conscience and its application to human conduct
Authority a source of moral obligation
Lecture before the college
Lecture to the college - the man will be as his object
"Est Modus in rebus"
John 17.20 - Kent, Oct. 1827
John 8.31-32 - Litchfield, April 1830
Joshua 5.1 - Kent, June 1828
II Corinthians 11.14 - March 1829
On Preaching the Gospel, Acts 8.35
Duty of Hearers - Acts 10.33
On Christian Hope - Litchfield, Ma 1830
Deuteronomy 4.9 - Jan. 1826
Luke 9.57-62 - Kent, July 1826
The Promises of God - II Corinthians 1.20, Dec. 1828
Samuel 23.5 - Feb. 1827
Ephesians 2.20-21 - Dec. 1827
Ignorance of God, Acts 17.23 - 1827
John 18.35
Exodus 19.21 - Oct. 1825
Luke 20.21 - March 1826
Matthew 5.6 - Nov. 1834
Thessalonians 5.6-7 - 1827
Romans 8.1
John 5.25 - Oct. 1833
Matthew 5.3-5 - Oct. 1834
Luke 24.47 - New Town, July 1823
Lecture before the Lyceum, Litchfield, March 1833
Pastoral Charge.
Lecture before the College
Address to the Deacons - Bud and Wilborne at their induction into office
Right Hand of Fellowship
John 21.6 - Litchfield, Oct. 1830
Luke 9.55 - Nov. 1832
Ephesians 5.15 - 1825
I Corinthians 2.14 - On Spiritual Discernment, 1826
Revelations 2.4 - Litchfield, Dec. 1829-31
Luke 11.13 - April 1826
Hosea 13.1 - Litchfield, July 4, 1830
John 6.67-68 - Sept. 1825
The Blessings of Believing without Seeing. John 20.29, May 1826
Genesis 1.27 - Kent 1826
John 2.5 - 1826
Matthew 3.3 - April 1832
Corinthians 15.33 - Litchfield, June 1830-32
On the Name of Jesus, Matthew 1.21 - New Town, June 1823
Psalm 133.1 - Sept. 1832
Mark 10.13 - April 1835
Matthew 21.44 - Kent, Oct. 1827
Proverbs 23.26 - 1826
Decision of Christian Character, Ruth 1.18 - Litchfield, 1830
Luke 12.48 - Litchfield, June 1831
Job 33.14 - March 1829
Hebrews 4.2 - Kent, Nov. 1827
The Witness of the Spirit, Romans 8.16 - Kent, Dec. 1827
John 9.31 - College, Nov. 1838
Zechariah 4.7
James 5.2 - Oct. 1828
John 4.14 - Litchfield, Feb. 1831
Luke 6.19 - Litchfield, April 1831-33
Ecclesiastes 5.5 - Dec. 1828
II Samuel 19.34 - Litchfield, May 1830
Luke 13.23 - Litchfield Aug. 1830
II Kings, 7.3 - Torrington, Dec. 1825
II Corinthians 4.7 - 1822
John 4.4 - Sept. 1832
Acts 26.28 - Litchfield, June 1831
Galatians 6.4-5 - Litchfield, Oct. 1833
Philippians 2.12-13 - Dec. 1833
Job 42.5-6 - April 1831
Revelations 2.12 - 1826
II Corinthians 4.3 - May 1831
Religion the One Thing Needful. Luke 10.42 - Sept. 1826
II Kings 6.27 - Nov. 1828
Matthew 24.32 - Sept. 1827
Matthew 20.15 - Oct. 1825-26
Matthew 10.32-33 - 1826
Ezekiel 18.25 - College, April 1842
Jeremiah 2.12-13 - 1826
Hosea 6.4 - College, Special Meeting, Nov. 1839
Joshua 2.5 - College, June 1844
Luke 12.47 - College, June 1840
The Doctrine of Infant Baptism, Genesis 17.7
8 Sermons on the Church of God - Litchfield, Mar. 1830
Question for Examination on Biblical Interpretation
13 Sermons on the Confession of Faith of Congregational Church, Litchfield
Missionary Sermon, John 6.11 - Jan. 1832
Missionary Sermon, John 3.30
Missionary Sermon, Zechariah 4.6-7
New Year's Sermon, Genesis 1.14 - 1832
New Year's Sermon, Psalm 90.12 - 1831
New Year's Sermon, Genesis 47.8-9 - 1834
Communion Sermon, Hebrews 9.16 - Litchfield, Jan. 1830
Communion Sermon, John 14.28 - July 1842
Communion Sermon, Matthew 11.28 - Litchfield, Jan 1830
Temperance Sermon, Romans 14.15 - Feb. 1833
Temperance Sermon, Timothy 5.23 - Feb. 1833
An Address before the Litchfield County Temperance Society
For Colonization Society - July 1832
On Tract Distribution - July 1834
Thanksgiving Sermon, Daniel 2.21
Thanksgiving Sermon, Revelations 11.7
Thanksgiving Sermon, Psalms 97.1
Thanksgiving Sermon, Colossians 3.15
Fast Sermon, Proverbs 14.34 - April 1828
State Fast on the Occasion of the Cholera, Isaiah 26.20-21 - July 19, 1832
Sermon for the State Fast, Luke 2.36-37 - 1825
Results of Sabbath Schools, Zechariah 4.10 - Oct. 1833
The Importance of Sabbath Schools, Proverbs 22.6 - April 1828
Lecture on Sacred Music
Isaiah 60.21-22, Missionary Sermon
Malachi 3.10
Psalm 102.13-14 - Litchfield, Sept. 1830
II Corinthians 5.19 - March 1833
Romans 7.9 - College, July 1844
Luke 17.5 - July 1844
Acts 2.37 - College, March 1843
Psalms 4.3 - Litchfield, Nov. 1831
I Corinthians 9.26-27 - College, May 1839
The Christian's Disquietudes and Consolations, New Town, July 1822
John 17.22 - Litchfield, June 1830
Habakkuk 3.2 - August 1833
Ephesians 5.13 - 1826
Hebrews 6.8 - 1826
Psalms 10.13 - New Town, 1822
Hebrews 6.1 - July 1825
Hosea 4.17 - Dec. 1827
Corinthians 13.13 - March 1832
Ephesians 1.23 - Litchfield, Aug. 1832
Hebrews 12.28 - Kent 1826
Romans 3.3 - College, Nov. 1844
Jeremiah 8.22 - Litchfield, Oct. 1830
Revelations 3.7 - New Town 1822
Romans 7.21 - Sept. 1828
Zechariah 8.21 - 1827
Psalms 78.9 - 1823
Matthew 25.8 - Litchfield, June 1831
Romans 11.14 - August 1835
Romans 7.24-25 - Dec. 1835
Proverbs 17.16 - College, 1841
Jonah - Litchfield, Oct. 1830
II Corinthians 3.18 - College, Jan. 1842-44
Romans 5.7-8 - June 1835
Mark 8.36 - Sept. 1836
Galatians 4.18 - Jan 1835
Luke 17.26-30 - Dec. 1835
Timothy 5.6 - June 1835-36
Ezekiel 3.19 - March 1834
II Corinthians 5.15 - March 1836
Luke 13.5 - June 1836
Psalms 4.6 - March 1836
Luke 7.7-8
Hebrews 2.3 - College, Feb. 1842
Isaiah 29.11-12 - August 1836
I Corinthians 2.14 - College, July 1839
Acts 5.39 - August 1835
Isaiah 44.2
Matthew 11.16-19 - College, Oct. 1840
Genesis 15.16 - Sept. 1835-36
The Duty of Thinking More of our Sin and Less of our Virtue, May 1825
I John 2.15 - July 1836
John 8.36 - July 3, 1842
Proverbs 10.17 - June 1835-36
Ephesians 4.18 - July 1835
John 8.9 - July 1835
John 13.17 - Dec. 1834
I Corinthians 1.18 - College, Oct. 1842
Ephesians 6.10 - College, June 1843
Psalms 19.11 - College, Nov. 1842
Peter 3.15 - July 1826
Isaiah 59.19 - College 1838
Comprehensive Evolution in Three Distinctive Grades
Reason and Revelation, or The Scriptural Order of the Divine Manifestations Undeniably Comprehensive of the Universe
Questions on Chapters of a Book