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Author: Rodman, Thomas P.

Biography:

RODMAN, Thomas P. (1810-70: ancestry.com)

The son of John and Rebecca Rodman of Newport RI, Thomas Peckham Rodman had two careers, the first as an educator and the second as a Swedenborgian minister. He had a master's degree (it is not clear from where, but apparently not from the nearest university, Brown, in Providence RI) when he taught at and then from 1835-6 served as Principal of the Kent Academy, later known as the Providence Conference Seminary, in East Greenwich RI. In 1838 he combined teaching with evening supervision of the Reading Room in the new Providence Athenaeum. He married Maria Smith of Massachusetts in 1840; they had seven children. From about 1845 they lived in Bridgewater MA, where he became the Pastor of the New Jerusalem Church. They were still in Bridgewater for the 1860 Census, but in 1864 he described himself as resident in Taunton MA and preaching as needed in the vicinity. He was a member of the publications committee of the Philadelphia district of the Church. He died in Philadelphia and is buried in Bridgewater. (ancestry.com 4 Aug. 2020; findmypast.com 4 Aug. 2020; Charles Henry Jones, Genealogy of the Rodman Family, 1620-1886 [1886])

 

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