Notes On Alexander Thomas Bowser

Rev. Bowser at Hyde Park Unitarian Church 1916 – 1927

The Hyde Park Unitarian Church (The First Unitarian Society of Hyde Park, the Church of the Christian Fraternity) was organized June 3, 1868. The meeting house was dedicated February 18, 1875.

Ministers

1867-1868 – Trowbridge Brigham Forbush
1868-1869 – William Hamilton
1870-1879 – Francis Charles Williams
1880-1883 – Adoniram Judson Rich
1884-1890 – James Huxtable
1890-1894 – Edmund Quincey Sewall Orgood
1896-1899 – Arthur Gooding Pettingill
1900-1905 – William Henry Savage
1905-1908 – Samuel Louis Elberfeld
1909-1909 – Johannes A.C. Fagginger Auer
1910-1914 – Louis Clas Dethlefs
1915-1916 – Philip Slaney Thacher
1916-1927 – Alexander Thomas Bowser
1927-1935 – Forrester Alexander Macdonald
1936-1937 – Edward Allison Cahil

Source: First Unitarian Society (Hyde Park, Mass.) Records (bMS 6): Register, Andover-Harvard Theology Library

Descriptive Summary of Archive

Call No.: bMS 6
Title: First Unitarian Society (Hyde Park, Mass.) Records
Date(s): 1874-1948
Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School
45 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
Quantity: 1.4 Cubic Feet(4 boxes)
Abstract: Church constitution; membership lists and certificates; church correspondence; minister’s records; church financial records; miscellaneous church records.

Books, Journals, Pamphlets

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  • The Bible, its authority and use: Preached on Sunday, Feb’y 19, 1905
  • The divine element in human nature: A sermon … preached on Sunday, Nov. 2, 1902
  • Endless life: Preached on Sunday, March 18, 1906
  • God in man; a twentieth century view of incarnation: Preached on Sunday, Dec. 10, 1905
  • The Holy Spirit: Preached on Sunday, May 22, 1904
  • Human nature: the body, the soul, the spirit: A series of sermons
  • A rational use of prayer;: A sermon
  • Unitarian belief and the teaching of Jesus: Preached on Sunday, Jan. 25, 1903

Alexander Thomas Bowser (1848 – 1933)

Family Links

Parents:
Robert Bowser (1811 – 1884)
Jane Kirk Bowser (1816 – 1889)

Spouse:
Adelaide Prescott Reed Bowser (1859 – 1933)

Children:
Alice Bowser (1885 – 1887)*
Henry Reed Bowser (1887 – 1982)*
Robert Bowser (1890 – 1975)*

Sibling:
Robert Bowser (1844 – 1886)*

Source: Find a Grave, Alexander Thomas Bowser