father Nathaniel Rust
Born in Ipswich, MA, Richard Rust was left an orphan, his father dying when he was 8yrs. old, and his mother when he was 10. He attended Wesleyan University in Conn., where he graduated in 1841, and received the MA degree in 1844. While in college he paid his expenses by teaching and lecturing winters. He was one of the first anti-slavery lecturers in Connecticut, and in New Haven County was mobbed repeatedly while delivering lectures against slavery. He aided the ladies in organizing the First Anti-Slavery Fair at Hartford, Conn.
In 1859 Dr. Rust was transferred from the scenes of his early struggles and triumphs to the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1859 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. With Bishops Clark and Walden, Dr. Rust aided in the organization of the Freedmen's Aid Society of the M. E. Church, and for the last 20 years has been its corresponding secretary. The society under the administration of Dr. Rust, had established and sustained in central locations in the South 30 institutions of learning, styled seminaries, colleges or universities, for the training of teachers and preachers for the elevation of this long-neglected race, so lately admitted to all the rights and duties of American citizens.
[source: "History of Essex County, Massachusetts", by Duane Hamilton Hurd, Published 1888, pages 665-6]
Born in Ipswich, MA, Richard Rust was left an orphan, his father dying when he was 8yrs. old, and his mother when he was 10. He attended Wesleyan University in Conn., where he graduated in 1841, and received the MA degree in 1844. While in college he paid his expenses by teaching and lecturing winters. He was one of the first anti-slavery lecturers in Connecticut, and in New Haven County was mobbed repeatedly while delivering lectures against slavery. He aided the ladies in organizing the First Anti-Slavery Fair at Hartford, Conn.
In 1859 Dr. Rust was transferred from the scenes of his early struggles and triumphs to the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1859 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. With Bishops Clark and Walden, Dr. Rust aided in the organization of the Freedmen's Aid Society of the M. E. Church, and for the last 20 years has been its corresponding secretary. The society under the administration of Dr. Rust, had established and sustained in central locations in the South 30 institutions of learning, styled seminaries, colleges or universities, for the training of teachers and preachers for the elevation of this long-neglected race, so lately admitted to all the rights and duties of American citizens.
[source: "History of Essex County, Massachusetts", by Duane Hamilton Hurd, Published 1888, pages 665-6]
father Nathaniel Rust
Born in Ipswich, MA, Richard Rust was left an orphan, his father dying when he was 8yrs. old, and his mother when he was 10. He attended Wesleyan University in Conn., where he graduated in 1841, and received the MA degree in 1844. While in college he paid his expenses by teaching and lecturing winters. He was one of the first anti-slavery lecturers in Connecticut, and in New Haven County was mobbed repeatedly while delivering lectures against slavery. He aided the ladies in organizing the First Anti-Slavery Fair at Hartford, Conn.
In 1859 Dr. Rust was transferred from the scenes of his early struggles and triumphs to the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1859 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. With Bishops Clark and Walden, Dr. Rust aided in the organization of the Freedmen's Aid Society of the M. E. Church, and for the last 20 years has been its corresponding secretary. The society under the administration of Dr. Rust, had established and sustained in central locations in the South 30 institutions of learning, styled seminaries, colleges or universities, for the training of teachers and preachers for the elevation of this long-neglected race, so lately admitted to all the rights and duties of American citizens.
[source: "History of Essex County, Massachusetts", by Duane Hamilton Hurd, Published 1888, pages 665-6]
Born in Ipswich, MA, Richard Rust was left an orphan, his father dying when he was 8yrs. old, and his mother when he was 10. He attended Wesleyan University in Conn., where he graduated in 1841, and received the MA degree in 1844. While in college he paid his expenses by teaching and lecturing winters. He was one of the first anti-slavery lecturers in Connecticut, and in New Haven County was mobbed repeatedly while delivering lectures against slavery. He aided the ladies in organizing the First Anti-Slavery Fair at Hartford, Conn.
In 1859 Dr. Rust was transferred from the scenes of his early struggles and triumphs to the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1859 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. With Bishops Clark and Walden, Dr. Rust aided in the organization of the Freedmen's Aid Society of the M. E. Church, and for the last 20 years has been its corresponding secretary. The society under the administration of Dr. Rust, had established and sustained in central locations in the South 30 institutions of learning, styled seminaries, colleges or universities, for the training of teachers and preachers for the elevation of this long-neglected race, so lately admitted to all the rights and duties of American citizens.
[source: "History of Essex County, Massachusetts", by Duane Hamilton Hurd, Published 1888, pages 665-6]
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