Skip to main content

The Joseph Gaston Symmes Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCM 374

Scope and Contents

These sermons and lectures were discovered at a Flea Market in the Summer of 1997 by the Rev. James O'Conner, a PCA minister of New Hope, Pennsylvania. He gave them to the Seminary Library.

Dates

  • 1852 - 1873

Conditions Governing Use

There are no special restrictions to access of this collection. It may be examined by library patrons under the normal rules and conditions of the Seminary Archives.

Biographical / Historical

Born January 24 in Hamilton, Ohio

Chronology

1851
B.A, Hanover College
1851-54
Student, Princeton Theological Seminary
1854
Ordained November 3. Presbytery of Madison, Indiana
1854-57
Pastor, Presbyterian Church - Madison, Indiana
1857-94
Pastor, First Presbyterian Church - Cranbury, New Jersey
1879
Doctor of Divinity, Hanover College
1894
Died, June 23 - Cranbury, New Jersey

Extent

1.5 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Title
The Joseph Gaston Symmes Manuscript Collection
Status
Completed
Author
Archivist: William O. Harris
Date
1997
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Princeton Theological Seminary. Library. Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Princeton Theological Seminary
Wright Library
25 Library Place
Princeton NJ 08540 USA