2. Contributors
  3. Allaby, Henry E.

Rev. Henry Emmerson Allaby
1891-1980

Henry Emmerson Allaby was born near Bloomfield Station, Kings County, New Brunswick on 25 October 1891. He attended Hampton Consolidated School. He was educated at Acadia University (BA 1913) and ordained at Whitneyville. Allaby was a Baptist minister for Whitneyville and Little Southwest from 1915-1917, and Ludlow, Boiestown, and Bloomfield Ridge from 1917-1920. In 1920 he took a pastorate in Rhode Island. He returned to Canada in 1925 to be minister at Berwick, Nova Scotia (1925-1931). He went to Woodstock NB (1931-1940) followed by Charlotte St., Saint John (1940-1946). In 1946 he was appointed as evangelist-at-large for New Brunswick while serving at Steeves Mountain-Berry Mills and the Gorge (1946-1951).When the United Baptist Bible Training School opened in Moncton in 1949, he was engaged as a part-time instructor in religion. He joined the full-time staff in 1951. In 1956 he was granted an honorary DD by Acadia University. He was president of the Maritime Baptist Convention in 1958. In retirement he made his home in Woodstock, where he compiled a history of the local Baptist church and published a religio-autobiographical work entitled Listening to God: Lessons from a Long Life. Allaby died in Woodstock, NB on 1 July 1980.

Source

Hamilton, W.D. “Allaby, Henry Emmerson.” Dictionary of Miramichi Biography, Provincial Archives of New Brunwick, 1998.  Accessed 19 July 2023.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Bloomfield, Kings County, Miramichi, Saint John, Moncton, Whitney, Woodstock, Berry Mills

Archival Material

  • Location
    Esther Clark Wrigth Archives, Acadia University
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    Retrieval Number
    1900.417-ALL and 2009.014-ALL
    Date Range of Material
    1937-1976
    Extent

    120 folders of textual records

    Scope and Content Note

    Collection includes correspondence, "The Old Central Norton Baptist Meeting House" (a poem by Allaby), yearbooks, bulletins, sermons, scrapbooks, certificates, and a manuscript of "History of the United Baptist Church of Woodstock, NB."

Headshot of Rev. Henry E. Allaby

Rev. Henry E. Allaby

Credit

"Reverend Henry E. Allaby." Baptist Image Collection, Accession Number D1900.039/372. Courtesy of Acadia Archives. Accessed 19 July 2023.

Bibliography Items

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Allaby, Henry E. How to Live a Successful Christian Life. Saint John, NB: Board of Evangelism, Atlantic Baptist Convention, 1975, 15 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): Religion

Allaby, Henry E. Listening to God: Lessons from a Long Life. Woodstock, NB: Henley Publishing Ltd., 1979, 64 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): Religion, New Brunswick Imprints

Allaby, Henry E. and Noble, H. G. History of the United Baptist Church of Woodstock, New Brunswick: Marking the 125th & 150th Anniversary 1834-1959; 1959-1964. Woodstock, NB: United Baptist Church, 1984, 36 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): Religion

Allaby, Henry E. and Andow, Joanna. History of the United Baptist Church of Woodstock, New Brunswick: Addendum Marking the 170th Anniversary. Woodstock, NB: United Baptist Church, 2004, 28 pp.. [ book ]
Collection(s): Religion