Guide to the Caspar Robue Gregory Papers
Open for research.
Caspar Robue Gregory was born in Philadelphia in 1824 and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1843. He attended Princeton Theological Seminary, 1845-1848, and was ordained as an evangelist by the Presbytery of Philadelphia in 1849. He served as a missionary to the Choctaw Indians, 1849-1850. He held pastorates in Oneida, NY, and Bridgeton, NJ, 1851-1873, when he was appointed Professor of Sacred Rhetoric at Lincoln University, Oxford, PA, where he served until his death in 1882.
This collection consists of two letters of Gregory, one from Bridgeton and one from Lincoln University. The first deals with his appointment to an alumni committee for the Lackawanna Presbytery to raise funds for the endowment of the Hodge Chair at Princeton Theological Seminary. The second concerns Lincoln University and the students studying theology there.
Someone has added a note to the 1871 letter that reads "C. R. Gregory of Hodge Memorial etc." It was his son, C. R. Gregory, Jr., who held that pastorate. Internal evidence of the letters seems conclusive that they were written by the elder Gregory.
The library has published sermons of Gregory.
The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared: March 1993
Glenn Colliver, Assistant Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 369 | |
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence, 1871, 1875 |