October 4: Walter Rauschenbusch, Christian Social Gospel activist, was born in 1861, in Rochester, NY. ABHS holds the bulk of his papers, manuscripts and photographs. Rauschenbusch is pictured here.
October 5: William Carey, a leading Baptist missions proponent, was baptized in England in 1783.
October 8: John Clarke, an early advocate of religious liberty in New England, was born in England in 1609.
October 11: Four Baptists were brought before the Massachusetts court and told to cease ‘schismatical practices” in 1665.
October 14: The Warren Association in Massachusetts petitioned the Continental Congress for religious liberty in 1774. ABHS holds the Warren Association Minutes from 1767.
October 24: Ann Hasseltine Judson, one of the first American overseas missionaries, died in Burma at age 37 in 1826.
October 25: Ralph Elliott was fired by Midwestern Seminary (an SBC affiliated seminary) in the midst of the controversy over his Genesis interpretation in 1962. ABHS holds his personal papers.
October 31: John Mason Peck, pioneer missionary to the western frontier (Ohio and Illinois), was born in Litchfield, CT in 1789. ABHS holds his correspondence from 1833-1852 and a journal from 1854.
