Call to the West
A Biography of The Reverend Ferris Fitch, 1802-1846
Ferris Fitch was a 7th generation descendant of Rev. James Fitch of Norwich, Connecticut. He was born in the small village of Pawlet in Rutland County, Vermont, the son of a mill owner, who was killed in an accident at the mill, when Ferris was 11 years old. Ferris attended Middlebury College in Vermont and Andover Theological Seminary in Massachusetts.
After graduation, he served in churches in Maine: Belfast, Castine, and Eliot. But, as he confided to his diary, he felt a "call" to minister in "The West." At the time, that meant the Western Reserve in Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. He and his small family moved to churches in Painesville, Richmond, Huron, and Lower Sandusky (later named Fremont). During his life, he found himself in the middle of a religious ferment: disestablishment of a tax-funded church, Congregationalism versus Presbyterianism, Perfectionists, Abolitionists, Irvingites, and Mormons. Ferris's diary entries on all these subjects make up a major part of the book.
- ISBN: 978-1497511699
- 210 pp.
- Index
- Binding: Paperback
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