Background
Stebbins, Rufus Phineas was born on March 3, 1810 in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Luther and Lucina (Stebbins) Stebbins.
Stebbins, Rufus Phineas was born on March 3, 1810 in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Luther and Lucina (Stebbins) Stebbins.
Graduate Amherst College, 1834. Attended Harvard Divinty School, 3 years. Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Harvard.
Ordained pastor Congregational Church, Leominster, Massachusetts, 1837. 1st president Theological School of Meadville, Pennsylvania, 1844. Pastor Meadville Unitarian Church, 1844-1849, pastor, Woburn, Massachusetts, 1857-1863.
President American Unitarian Association, 1863, secretary, 1865. Took charge Unitarian Church, Ithaca, New York, 1871-1878. Organized Unitarian Church, Newton Center, Massachusetts, 1878-1885.
Opposed the German higher criticism. Author: Academic Culture, 1851. Study of the Pentateuch, 1881.
Contributor article to Christian Examiner, Christian Palladium, Christian Repository.
Married Eliza Livermore, September 11, 1837.