{"id":2482,"date":"2011-01-18T08:24:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T08:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2020-01-18T17:07:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T22:07:31","slug":"the-rev-t-m-cooley-house-1801","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=2482","title":{"rendered":"Rev. T.M. Cooley House (1801)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Rev-T-M-Cooley-1801.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rev. T.M. Cooley House\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Rev-T-M-Cooley-1801.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Rev-T-M-Cooley-1801-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Rev. Timothy Mather Cooley became the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granvillehistory.org\/HistoricalTimes\/HistTimes200904.pdf\">minister of Granville&#8217;s Congregational Church<\/a> in 1805.  In 1798 and 1799, he led a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Revival_meeting\">religious revival<\/a> in the town, where he had grown up and lived all his life.  <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-WQ3AAAAMAAJ&#038;pg=PA270#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">He described the revival<\/a> in an article for the <em>Connecticut Evangelical Magazine<\/em> of <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-WQ3AAAAMAAJ&#038;pg=PA241#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">January 1802<\/a>.  In 1845, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=wQQXAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PA5#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">a jubilee was held in Granville<\/a>, celebrating Cooley&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=wgQXAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PR3#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">fifty years there as pastor<\/a>.  A number of <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=3kAwAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PA1#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">his sermons<\/a> were published during his lifetime and Rev. Cooley also wrote <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=lRQWAAAAYAAJ&#038;pg=PR1#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">Sketches of the Churches and Pastors in Hampden County, Mass.<\/a><\/em> (1854).  After he died in 1859, at the age of 83, Lydia Huntley Sigourney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/rev-dr-t-m-cooley\/\">wrote<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrycat.com\/lydia-howard-sigourney\/in-memoriam---rev-dr-t-m-cooley\">memorial poem<\/a>.  The Rev. T.M. Cooley House in Granville Center was built in 1801.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Timothy Mather Cooley became the minister of Granville&#8217;s Congregational Church in 1805. In 1798 and 1799, he led a religious revival in the town, where he had grown up and lived all his life. He described the revival in an article for the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine of January 1802. In 1845, a jubilee was held in Granville, celebrating Cooley&#8217;s fifty years there as pastor. A number of his sermons were published during his lifetime and Rev. Cooley also wrote Sketches of the Churches and Pastors in Hampden County, Mass. (1854). After he died in 1859, at the age of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,143,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal","category-granville","category-houses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7838,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/7838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}