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Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Hall Family papers, 1815-1871, 1939.

 Collection
Identifier: MS5425
Abstract Gordon Hall was a missionary to India who was from Tolland, Massachusetts. While in India he met Margaret Lewis, who had lived there for over 20 years. They would eventually get married and have four kids together, though only one survived into adulthood. That child, first born Nathan and then Gordon, was a minister who served in Wilton, Connecticut and Northampton, Massachusetts. Gordon would marry Emily Baldwin Hall and they would have seven children together. One of those children, Gordon...
Dates: 1815-1871, 1939

John Wiley pew deed, 1844, 1964.

 Collection
Identifier: RG5404
Abstract John Wiley was born in Flatbush, Long Island on October 4th, 1808. He is the son of Charles Wiley, the influential printer who founded John Wiley & Sons, now known as just Wiley. John Wiley would start working at the company upon the death of his father in 1826. Over his tenure, the company would go through several name changes. First was Wiley, Lane & Co., then Wiley & Putnam, and then John Wiley. Wiley died in East Orange, New Jersey, on February 21st, 1891. Collection consists...
Dates: 1848; 1964

Samuel Billings Capen collection of writings, 1882-1913.

 Collection
Identifier: MS0835
Abstract Samuel Billings Capen was born on December 12, 1842 in Boston. Samuel would become heavily involved in a number of different organizations starting in 1882 when he became the president of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions would also benefit from Capen’s services when he became president in 1899. He was a part of the Haystack Prayer Meeting in 1906 and would eventually travel to Asia as the head of the ABCFM and...
Dates: 1882-1913

William Dana Locke papers, 1821-1882.

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Identifier: MS4976
Abstract

William Dana Locke was born in Fitzwilliam, NH in 1807, worked as a farmer, and served as superintendent of the Fitzwilliam schools. He died in 1886 in the town of Hillsborough, New Hampshire. This collection includes a book of small book of poems, a set of correspondences, essays and lectures.

Dates: 1821-1882

Woods Family papers, 1796-1896.

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Identifier: MS1009
Abstract Leonard Woods was born in Princeton, Massachusetts and eventually graduated from Harvard in 1796. He was ordained at Second Church of West Newbury, Massachusetts on December 5, 1798; He held onto that position until May 25, 1808 to become Professor of Theology at the Andover seminary and stayed there until his resignation in 1846. Leonard Woods received his Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth in 1810 and another D.D. soon after from Nassau Hall. He played a role in the Unitarian controversy in...
Dates: 1796-1896