Daniel Sharp (clergyman)
Daniel Sharp, D.D. (1783 - June 25, 1853) was pastor of the Charles Street Baptist Church, Boston, Massachusetts, for more than forty years, from 1812 to about 1853. He was one of the founders of the Newton Theological Institution.[1]
He was born December 25, 1783, in Yorkshire, England, and came to New York as a merchant at the age of 19. He studied in Philadelphia under Rev. Dr. Staughton and from there went to Newark, New Jersey. He was pastor of Charles Street Baptist Church in Boston from 1812 to 1853, having previously been invited to preach there in 1809 and 1811. He died on June 23, 1853, in the village of Stoneley outside Baltimore.[2]
References
- ^ Services at the fortieth anniversary of the installation of the Rev. Daniel Sharp, D.D.: as pastor of the Charles Street Baptist Church and Society, Boston, April 29, 1852. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852
- ^ "Death of Rev. Dr. Sharp". New York Times. June 27, 1853. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
- ^ Moses King. Mount Auburn Cemetery: including also a brief history and description of Cambridge, Harvard University, and the Union Railway Company. Moses King, 1883; pp. 38ff.
Further reading
- Sharp, Daniel. A discourse: pronounced before his excellency William Eustis, esq. governor, the honorable council, and the two houses, composing the Legislature of Massachusetts, May 26, 1824.
- Sharp, Daniel (1857). Recognition of friends in heaven. Boston: J. French & Co.
- Armitage, Thomas (1890). A history of the Baptists: traced by their vital principles and practices from the time of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to the year 1886. Vol. 1. New York: Bryan, Taylor. pp. 857ff.
- "Early Baptist Missionary Leaders: Daniel Sharp". Baptist Missionary Magazine. LXXXIX: 336–38. September 1909.
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