Christian History Timeline: Some Places and Dates of Finney’s Revivals & Travels
EARLY NEW YORK REVIVALS
1824–1825
Evans Mills, LeRay Antwerp, Gouverneur Dekalb, Western
1826–1827
Rome (Jan 1826)
Utica (Feb.–May, Nov. 1826, Jan. l827)
Auburn (June–Aug. 1826)
Troy (October 1826)
New Lebanon (April 1827)
New Lebanon Conference and national recognition
Little Falls, (July 1827)
Stephentown (July–Oct. 1827)
LEAVES NEW YORK STATE
Wilmington, Delaware
(Dec.1827)
1828–1829
Philadelphia, PA (Jan. 1828)
Wilmington, DE —Jan. 1829)
Reading, PA (Jan.–May 1829)
Lancaster, PA (May–June 1829)
New York City
(Oct. 1829–May 1830)
1830—1831
Rochester, NY
(Sept. 1830–Mar. 1831)
Great Rochester Revival
1831–1837
Auburn, NY (May–Apr. 1831)
Buffalo, NY (April–June 1831)
Providence, RI (Aug. 1831)
Boston, MA (Aug. 1831–Apr. 1832)
New York, City
Chatham St Chapel
pastor, May 1832–Mar. 1836
(Jan.–July 1834:Finney took a Mediterranean cruise to recuperate from cholera contracted in a NY epidemic)
Broadway Tabernacle
pastor, 1836–1837
(For one year Finney combined responsibilities at the Broadway Tabernacle and Oberlin College, then left permanently for Oberlin)
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH
Becomes professor of theology,
Fall 1887; remains until death
LATER REVIVALS
1842
Boston, MA
Providence, RI
Rochester, NY
1843–1844
Boston, MA
(This winter, Finney claims the “baptism of the Spirit.”)
Nov. 1849–Mar. 1851
ENGLAND
Houghton, Birmingham, Worcester, London
(visits France)
(1851 August: Becomes president of Oberlin College; serves until 1866
Fall 1851: New York City
Spring 1852: Hartford, CT
Fall 1855: Rochester, NY
Fall 1856: Boston, MA
Fall 1857: Boston, MA
Dec. 1858–Aug. 1860
ENGLAND
Houghton, St. Ives, London, Huntington, Bolton, Manchester
SCOTLAND
Edinburgh, Aberdeen
(Finney spent the remainder of his life teaching and writing, and preaching and pastoring at First Church, Oberlin,OH, where he was pastor from 1844 to 1872)
By the Editors
[Christian History originally published this article in Christian History Issue #20 in 1988]
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