Charles Henry Corey (1834-1899), was a Canadian

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clergyman.

Biography

Corey was born at

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on 12 December 1834. He graduated from

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in 1858, and from

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in 1861. He served as pastor of the First Baptist Church in

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from 1861 until the beginning of 1864, when he resigned to enter the service of the

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for the remainder of the

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. He previously accepted a commission with the USCC when he accompanied the 2nd New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment to

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in the summer of 1862. Following brief service in Texas and the Lower Mississippi, he served the remainder of the war in

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and

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Following the war, he was a missionary among the

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. In 1867 he was appointed principal of the

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, which went on to become

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and the following year was transferred to

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, as president of the

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for the training of African-American preachers and teachers. He retired in 1898 to Seabrook and died the following year of

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Richmond Theological Seminary

In 1867, a Richmond campus of the National Theological Institute was established by Dr. Nathaniel Colver of the

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. Colver died shortly thereafter, and the newly renamed Colver Institute was taken over by Corey. The school was renamed again as the Richmond Theological Seminary (also called Institute) which Charles Corey headed for 30 years. In the 1890s, Corey was instrumental in the merging of the

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with the

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to form

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. In 1895, Corey wrote a history of the school. He retired in 1898.The L. Douglas Wilder Library and Learning Resource Center
holds the records of the

which includes Corey's personal and business correspondence.

Notes

References

* * Corey, Charles H.
A History of the Richmond Theological Seminary With Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Work Among the Colored People of the South
'. (Richmond: J.W. Randolph Company, 1895). 19th-century Canadian Baptist ministers 1834 births 1899 deaths {{Canada-clergy-stub