Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the PeopleBeecher, Catharine Esther
Religion
Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People
Beecher, Catharine Esther
Religion -- Philosophy
ART. 6. Funds contributed for endowments shall be held in trust for this
Association by gentlemen Trustees incorporated for the purpose.
ART. 7. The whole control of the business and funds shall be in a Board
of Managers, who shall appoint their own officers, agents, and executive
committee. This Board shall have power to perpetuate and increase
itself, but the number from any one religious denomination shall never
exceed one fifth of the whole. Not less than seven different
denominations shall be represented in the Board, and a majority shall be
ladies who are or have been practical teachers. Any number of members
present, of the Board or of the Executive Committee, at any meeting of
either, due notice having been given of such meeting, shall constitute a
quorum. The Board shall meet annually at such time and place as it shall
appoint, and the presiding officer shall be appointed at each meeting. A
meeting may also be called at any time, at the request of any three
members of the Board.
ART. 8. Any person may become an honorary _life member_ of this
Association by the payment of twenty-five dollars, and an _honorary
patron_ of the enterprise by the payment of fifty dollars or upward.
BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN'S EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
Mrs. Z. P. G. Banister, _Newburyport, Mass._
Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, _Hartford, Conn._
Mrs. S. J. Hale, _Philadelphia_.
Miss P. Fobes, _Monticello, Ill._
Mrs. Gen. J. Gould, _Rochester, N. Y._
Mrs. E. Ricord, _Newark, N. J._
Mrs. H. B. Stowe, _Andover, Mass._
Mrs. Prof. H. C. Conant, _Rochester, N. Y._
Miss C. E. Beecher, _Boston, Mass._
Miss Mary Mortimer, _Milwaukee, Wis._
Miss C. M. Sedgwick, _New York_.
Mrs. Prof. D. C. Van Norman, "
Mrs. Marcus Spring, "
Mrs. C. M. Kirkland, "
Mrs. Prof. H. Webster, "
Mrs. A. H. Gibbons, "
Mrs. C. W. Milbank, "
Mrs. Rev. Dr. Cheever, "
Mrs. Henry Dwight, Jr., "
Mrs. James Harper, "
Mrs. D. Codwise, "
Mrs. Charles Abernethy, "
Mrs. Prof. Henry B. Smith, "
Mrs. Joseph F. Stone, "
Miss Caroline L. Griffin, "
Mrs. Rev. Abel Stevens, "
Mrs. Rev. W. L. Parsons, "
The following gentlemen are the Officers under the Act of Incorporation
granted to the Association by the Legislature of New York in 1855.
BENJ. W. BONNEY, President.
WM. L. PARSONS, Cor. Secretary.
HENRY A. HURLBUT, Treasurer.
BOARD OF MANAGERS.
CYRUS W. FIELD,
JOSIAH W. BAKER,
BENJ. W. BONNEY,
HENRY A. HURLBUT,
WM. L. PARSONS.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
CYRUS W. FIELD,
JOSIAH W. BAKER,
BENJ. W. BONNEY.
FORM OF BEQUEST.
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