Parsonsfield Seminary

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Parsonsfield Seminary, founded in 1832, was a well-known Free Will Baptist school in North Parsonsfield, Maine, in the United States. The first principal, Hosea Quimby, was active in many other Freewill Baptist organizations.

1 History
2 Notable alumni
3 See also
4 References and external links

[edit] History

The Seminary was deeply involved with the abolitionist movement and was a stop on the Underground Railroad, while Oren B. Cheney was principal in the 1840s. Parsonsfield Seminary burned mysteriously in 1854.

After it burned, Bates College (the Maine State Seminary) in Lewiston was founded in 1855 to take its place as a larger and more centrally located Free Baptist school. Regardless of this fact, a smaller seminary building was rebuilt in 1857 on the same site in Parsonsfield and existed until 1950s when it closed as a school. From 1840 to 1842, the Free Baptist Biblical School, a Free Baptist graduate school for training ministers, was located at the Seminary (the school was later renamed Cobb Divinity School and became part of Bates College), .

The Seminary buildings are still maintained by the Friends of the Parsonsfield Seminary. The school is located on Route 160 in Maine. The school was also known as the "North Parsonsfield Seminary."