New Finding Aid | Willard Brown Thorp papers
Special Collections and University Archives is pleased to announce a new finding aid published for the Willard Brown Thorp papers (Ax 214). The finding aid is available on Archives West.
Willard Brown Thorp was a Congregational minister born in Oxford, New York, and educated at Amherst and Yale Divinity School. During the summers of 1890 and 1891, he assisted at the American Institute of Christian Philosophy, Church of the Strangers in New York City, headed by Charles F. Deems. After graduation, he held pastorates at First Congregational Church, Binghamton, New York (1891-1899), South Congregational Church, Chicago (1899-1908), First Congregational Church, San Diego, California (1908-1920), and First Congregational Church, Palo Alto, California (1920-1939).
