Henry Sloane Coffin

Henry Sloane Coffin

, and one of the most famous ministers in the U.S.

Coffin was an heir to the fortune of the furniture firm of W. and J. Sloane & Co. His brother William was the president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Coffin attended Yale University between 1893 and 1897. In 1896, he was one of fifteen juniors invited to join the Skull and Bones.

During his time at Yale, Coffin was on friendly terms with evangelist Dwight L. Moody, who devoted considerable attention to Coffin during his famous Northfield Conferences in Massachusetts. In spite of Moody's influence, Coffin would emerge as a leading theological liberal.

Coffin became pastor of Madison Avenue Church in New York City in 1910. He declined an offer to become president of Union Theological Seminary in 1916. In 1917, he became Chairman of the Committee of the Board of Home Missions. In 1926, offered the presidency of Union a second time, he accepted and retained the post until 1945.

He was the uncle of William Sloane Coffin, and a member of the Yale Corporation (1921-45).

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