RARE “19th Century Abolitionist" Theodore L. Cuyler Hand Written Note COA For Sale

Up for sale "Presbyterian Minister" Theodore L. Cuyler Hand Written Note. This item is

certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of

Authenticity.

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Theodore

Ledyard Cuyler (January 10, 1822 – February 26, 1909) was a leading Presbyterian

minister and religious writer in the United States. Cuyler was born at Aurora, New York, but his father died

before he was five years old.[1] Cuyler graduated from Princeton University in 1841 and from Princeton Theological Seminary

in 1846. He first became a pastor in Burlington, New Jersey. Successful in

reviving the flagging church, he was called in 1853 as pastor of the Market

Street Dutch Reformed Church in New York City. His success there led to

Cuyler's installation in 1860 as the pastor of the Park Presbyterian Church in

Brooklyn, from which he oversaw the construction of the Lafayette Avenue

Presbyterian Church a block away. Completed in 1862, the church served the

largest Presbyterian congregation in the United States. Cuyler's friends and

acquaintances included a staggeringly large number of other contemporary

notables, including Horatius Bonar, Samuel Hanson

Cox, Phillips Brooks, Horace

Bushnell, Horace Greely, James McCosh,

Gilbert Haven,

Joseph Addison Alexander, Albert Barnes, William E.

Dodge, Newman Hall, Richard Salter Storrs, Philip Schaff,

Stephen H.

Tyng, Joseph Parker (theologian), Charles

Spurgeon, Benjamin M. Palmer, D. L. Moody,

Charles G. Finney, President Benjamin

Harrison, Vice President Henry Wilson,

and Prime Minister William Gladstone. A theological conservative,

Cuyler was also an outspoken supporter of the temperance movement and an avid abolitionist.

In 1872, Cuyler invited Sarah Smiley, a Quaker, to be the first woman ever to

preach from a Presbyterian pulpit. Besides numerous books, Cuyler wrote more

than four thousand articles, mostly for the religious press.Cuyler Gore, a park

in Brooklyn, was named for him just before the turn of the 20th century. Cuyler

politely declined a proposal that his statue be erected there, instead asking

only that the park continue to bear his name and "be always kept as bright

and beautiful with flowers as it is now."