THE MISSIONARY FACTORY: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth-Century Theologians, Bible Scholars, Preachers, Teachers, Translators, Printers, and Ordinary Townspeople of Andover, Massachusetts, Who Tried to Save the World.

By Jeanne Schinto*

​*Ms. Schinto has been an independent writer since 1973. For more information, see www.jeanneschinto.com.

Acknowledgments:  For research help, I extend my sincerest and ongoing thanks to the current and former staff of the Andover Center for History & Culture, especially Kenna Therrien, Angela McBrien, and Marilyn Helmers; Paige Roberts at the Phillips Academy Archives & Special Collections; BIlly McCarthy IV at the Congregational Library & Archives; the librarians of the Boston Athenaeum, especially Mary Warnement, Carolle R. Morini, and Elizabeth O'Meara; the interlibrary loan and circulation departments of Andover's Memorial Hall Library; Dan Lipcan and his staff at the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum; the American Antiquarian Society; Bowdoin College Library's Special Collections & Archives; the Harvard University Archives and Harvard's Houghton Library; the Library Company of Philadelphia; the American Philosophical Society Library & Museum; Charlotte Lyons, historian of Andover's South Church; and the Special Collections Research Center of the George Washington University.

Top: Andover Theological Seminary by Sarah Rowland while a student at Bradford Academy, 1822. Above: Main Street, Andover, MA, mid-19th century. Author's collection.