11 Facts About Barnas Sears

Barnas Sears was an American educational theorist and Baptist theologian.

The next day, Barnas Sears established the first German Baptist church in Hamburg, which would become the core of most of the continental Baptist movement with Oncken as one of its leaders.

In 1835, Barnas Sears began working at Newton Theological Institution, both as chair of Christian theology and as president.

Barnas Sears was the general agent of the Peabody Education Fund who was sent to Staunton, Virginia, by George Peabody to offer leadership in public education.

Barnas Sears was general agent of the fund from 1867 until February 1880 and was succeeded by Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry.

Barnas Sears settled in Staunton because of the easy access to the railroad.

Barnas Sears travelled extensively throughout the south promoting Southern education, "free schools for the whole people".

Barnas Sears "inspired confidence, removed doubts and suspicions, and aroused sympathy" through his warm personality, tact, and intelligence.

Barnas Sears served between 1855 and 1867 as the president of Brown whose Encyclopedia Brunoniana offers a more detailed biography.

From 1874 to 1877, Barnas Sears served as president of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and in this capacity he primarily supported church planting among German and European Baptists.

Barnas Sears died in Saratoga, New York, on July 6,1880, and was buried in Brookline, Massachusetts.