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<p>first seminaries in the country to admit African Americans (<a href="page.php?w=Moses_A._Hopkins">Moses A. Hopkins</a>, 1877), Japanese (Naoomi Tamura, 1882) and later, female seminarians (Ida Thorne Parker, 1917).</p>

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<p>Auburn Theological Seminary was established in Auburn, New York, by action of the <a href="page.php?w=Presbyterian_polity">Presbyterian Synod</a> of Geneva on 16 August 1818. It obtained a <a href="page.php?w=Incorporation_%28business%29">charter</a> from the <a href="page.php?w=New_York_State_legislature">New York State legislature</a></p><p>
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