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About Joseph Parrish Thompson
Joseph Parrish Thompson (1819–1879) was an American abolitionist and Congregationalist minister. He was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church in New York from 1845 to 1871,. His major life accomplishments include founding The Independent, an anti-slavery religious weekly started in 1848, contributing and managing The New Englander, served as president of the American Union Commission, being a member of the committee to create the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, played a major role in the development of 20 Congregational churches in Manhattan and Brooklyn. and assisted the Treaty of Berlin with the religious liberty clause.
Everything about Joseph Parrish Thompson →- Occupation
- writer, theologian, pastor, editor
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 7, 1819
- Died
- September 20, 1879