Author: Canning, Josiah W.
Title: A Sermon Delivered in Williamstown, Mass. , February 20, 1831, at the Funeral of Elisha M. Case, of Warwick, R.I. , a Student in Williamstown Academy
Description: Williamstown, Printed by Ridley Bannister, 1831. First Edition. First edition; 8 x 5 1/2; pp. [1], 4-17, [1]; self-wraps, tied with a string; a bit of foxing and spotting along margins; in good condition. Rev. Josiah Weeks Canning (1780 - 1854), legally changing his name from Cannon to Canning in 1831, was an author, educator, minister, and Principal of the Williamstown Academy. The following sermon was delivered after the unexpected death of one of the academy's pulils - "a youth of sober life and regular habits, of scholarlike punctuality and perseverence..no councel or instruction, with him, needed to be repeated..once told, he always remembered.. Good .

Keywords: Funeral Sermons, Americana


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