<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Lydia Root Andrews (m . 1824) Elizabeth Ford Atkinson (m . 1848) Rebecca Allen Rayl (m . 1865) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Profession </Th> <Td> Presbyterian minister; evangelist; revivalist; author </Td> </Tr> <P> Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792--August 16, 1875) was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States . He has been called The Father of Modern Revivalism . Finney was best known as an innovative revivalist during the period 1825--1835 in upstate New York and Manhattan, an opponent of Old School Presbyterian theology, an advocate of Christian perfectionism, and a religious writer . </P> <P> Together with several other evangelical leaders, his religious views led him to promote social reforms, such as abolition of slavery and equal education for women and African Americans . From 1835 he taught at Oberlin College of Ohio, which accepted all genders and races . He served as its second president from 1851 to 1866, during which its faculty and students were activists for abolition, the Underground Railroad, and universal education . </P>

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