Correspondence.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
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
Theodore Thornton Munger correspondence to J. Logen Tomlinson, 1881. : [manuscript]
Collection
Identifier: MS4883
William Dana Locke papers, 1821-1882.
Collection
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.
Collection
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