for their peers and congregations. Ordination of women On June 25, 1863, Olympia Brown became one of the first women in the United States to receive ordination in a national denomination, Antoinette Brown having been the first when she was ordained by the Congregational Churches in 1853. By 1920, there were 88 Universalist women ministers, the largest group in the United States. Universalists Hosea Ballou, theologian and evangelist P. T. Barnum, entertainer Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross George de Benneville, influential early evangelist Olympia Brown, the first woman in the United States to be ordained by a major denomination Luella J. B. Case (1807–1857), author Harrie B. Chase, US Federal Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Henry N. Couden, Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives for 25 years John Albert Cousens, sixth president of Tufts College Abner Kneeland, theologian and the last man in the United States jailed for blasphemy Harold Latham, American editor known for discovering Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind Alonzo Ames Miner, second president of Tufts College John Murray, evangelist Judith Sargent Murray, essayist and poet, advocated woman's rights Thomas Potter, farmer, church builder James Relly, Welsh preacher, hymn writer Caleb Rich, evangelist Benjamin Rush, statesman, Founding Father, and abolitionist. Clarence Skinner, theologian and dean of Crane School of Theology Ted Sorensen, President John F. Kennedy's special counsel and adviser, speechwriter See also List of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist churches Christian Universalism Primitive Baptist Universalist Universalism Universalist Herald References Further reading Buescher, John B. 2003. The Other Side of Salvation: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth-Century Religious Experience. Boston: Skinner House Books. . J.W. Hanson (1899) Universalism, The Prevailing Doctrine of the Christian Church During Its First Five Hundred Years. San Diego: St. Alban Press, 2002 Second Edition. . Miller, Russell E. 1979, 1985 ‘’The Larger Hope: vol.1 The First Century of the Universalist Church in America, 1770-1870. vol.2 The second century of the Universalist Church in America, 1870-1970 (in 2 volumes)’’ Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association. External links Murray Grove Retreat & Conference Center - Thomas Potter farm The Sargent House Museum - Judith Sargent Murray house Universalists from the Catholic Encyclopedia Universalist Heritage Foundation Christian Universalist Association Christian Universalist Church of America Christian groups with universalist beliefs Religious organizations established in 1778 Former Christian denominations Religious organizations disestablished in 1961 Christian denominations founded in the United