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Pinkham, William P. (William Penn), 1841-1919 (English, Acting President)

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Biography

William Penn Pinkham, a native of Maine, served as acting president in 1883-84.

Pinkham came to Earlham to teach English in 1879, despite the fact that he had never attended college. HA recorded Friends minister, he had taught in several Quaker academies. After leaving Earlham and teaching in Quaker Bible colleges in Ohio and California, he became a fierce critic of what he perceived as the college’s “unsoundness” on theological issues.

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William P. Pinkham Papers

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-74
Scope and Contents The William P. Pinkham Papers consists of material relating to the life of William Penn Pinkham, a prominent Gurneyite Quaker minister and educator in Ohio, Indiana, and California. The Pinkham Collection consists of two typescripts of an unpublished autobiography, "God's Voice to Me," along with one copy of his 1899 book, The Lamb of God; or, Scriptural Philosophy of the Atonement,  and an annotated copy of Charles N. Sinnett's ...
Dates: 1900-1908