Notes for Christopher Columbus Shumway

Notes for Christopher Columbus Shumway

Name Prefix: Rev.
Resided in Townsend, Massachusetts He was a pastor in Worcester, Massachusetts

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Columbus Shumway & Catharine Fowler m. 2 Sep 1833 - Notes: Columbus Shumway of Sidney Plains, N.Y.
SOURCE: Extracted from Saybrook, CT.- Vital Records, Connecticut Series 1

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Amherst College Class of 1830 - Studied theology

SOURCE: http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco/genealogy/acbiorecord/1830.html#shumway-c

Name: Columbus SHUMWAY
Death Date: Nov. 21, 1845
Burial Place: Worcester
Source: Vital Records of Worcester
Complete Record: SHUMWAY, Columbus, 40, s. Alfred, Nov. 21, 1845.
Source Information:
New England Historic Genealogical Society. Massachusetts Town Death Records, Partial Compilation. (6)
[database online] Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999. Taken from: Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts
to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904; Vital Records of Granville
Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1914. Vital Records
of Lawrence Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1926. Vital Records of Lincoln Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908. Vital Records
of Richmond Massachusetts to the Year1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1913.
Vital Records of Shirley Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical
Society, 1918. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vital Records of Chelmsford Massachusetts
to the Year 1849. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1914.

Steve Shumway -shumways@@petershumway.org
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Columbus was listed as a pastor of the Washington (New Prestion) Church in Litchfield County, Connecticut
in 1834. He was dismissed in 1835.
SOURCE: Source: The clergy of Litchfield County. Goodenough, Arthur.. unknown. Litchfield County
University Club. 1988. Page 236

"The Orthodox Congregational Church of Christ in Townsend ."
Rev. Columbus Shumway was the second pastor. He was born at Belchertown , graduated at Union College
and at Auburn Theological Seminary, and was installed, January 6, 1836 . In every particular, he was a
respectable preacher. Mr. Shumway must have been placed in a delicate position, and experienced all
the difficulties of being the successor of a first-class man. Undoubtedly too much was expected from
him. The notice of his dismission, tendered to him March 28, 1837 , was a surprise to him, from the fact
that up to that moment, everything on the surface indicated both unanimity and satisfaction.

Source Information:
Ancestry.com. Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Town History to 1878. [database online]
Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: Ithamar B. Sawtelle, comp. History of the Town of T
ownsend, Middlesex County, MA, from the Grant of Hathorn's Farm, 1676-1878.Fitchburg, MA: Press
of Blanchard & Brown, 1878.
Steve Shumway - shumways@@petershumway.org

died of appendicitis in Worcester in 1845
SOURCE: Robin Young