Clergy
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Abraham Browning, United States government petition
Collection — Folder S3464
Identifier: S3464
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a copy of the petition created by Abraham Browning and members of the New Jersey clergy sent to the United States government to demand that the clergy remain free from conscription. Inside the petition is a letter from Browning instructing members to sign the petition. The document was created May 26, 1864 on New Jersey and the interior letter written July 1, 1864.
Dates:
1864/05/26
Allen Jay autograph album
Collection — Folder S2396
Identifier: S2396
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an autograph album published by J. C. Riker of New York and used by Allen Jay. The entries range from 1852 to 1860 and include poems, personal notes, and signatures addressed to Jay. The bulk of the entries were written by individuals associated with Farmers Institute, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
Dates:
1852-1860
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Allen Jay autograph album
American Home Missionary Society collection
Collection
Identifier: L187
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises photostats of orignal letters and other documents sent by missionaries in Indiana to the American Home Missionary Society's home office in New York, New York ranging from 1825 to 1835. The originals are held by the Amistad Research Center and available on microfilm at a number of institutions. There are applications of churches, accounts of travel, and requests for advice, as well as statistical reports providing the number of conversions, Sabbath school scholars,...
Dates:
1825-1835
Anthony J. Lauck papers
Collection
Identifier: L088
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters from family members, friends and military officers in the United States and other countries to Anthony J. Lauck; greeting and postcards and telegrams; magazine and newspaper articles; event programs; invoices; poems; exhibition catalogs; from World War II; and Japanese currency (a 10 note), ranging from 1908 to 1980 regarding art and art business, family, personal, religious, and war matters.There is also a Japanese Imperial Army war flag circa 1941...
Dates:
1908-1980
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Anthony J. Lauck papers
Chester F. Brenton, "The Life and Times of Henry Brenton: Minister of the Gospel" manuscript
Collection — Folder S2557
Identifier: S2557
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typewritten copy of Chester F. Brenton's manuscript, "The Life and Times of Henry Brenton: Minister of the Gospel" dated January 1, 1977. It is the second volume in his Brenton family series and includes family history and information about the early years of Kentucky and Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana.
Dates:
1977/01/01
Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam letter
Collection — Folder S2122
Identifier: S2122
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a copy of a May 1969 circular letter sent by the Indianapolis chapter of the Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam organization. The letter urges the recipient to attend a May 18th meeting at the Newman Center where the following items were to be discussed: a report from the New York headquarters regarding "peace talks," a report on the Indianapolis Draft Project, and a Vietnam Memorial to take place in Indianapolis on May 25th. The letter was signed by Rev. Charles...
Dates:
1969 May
Edmund Otis Hovey collection
Collection
Identifier: L075
Scope and Contents
The collection consists primarily of Hovey family letters, including correspondence between Edmund Otis Hovey and his fiancée and later, wife. Also included in the collections are letters describing the move from Vermont to Indiana, as well as their living conditions in Fountain County (1831-1834). The collection contains transcribed letters of Hovey while he was at Dartmouth College, Andover Seminary, letters of his time at Wabash College, and correspondence with Charles White regarding...
Dates:
1826-1877
Francis Cointet, Catholicism among the Potawatomi nation history
Collection — Folder S2068
Identifier: S2068
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photostatic copies of a handwritten history of Catholicism among the Potawatomi and other Native Americans living in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan. A note on the back of the first copied page states that Rev. Thomas T. McAvoy, a historian at University of Notre Dame, suggested that the pages were written by Father Francis Cointet, C.S.C. to Bishop Peter Paul Lefevere, the administrator of the Detroit diocese around 1846.
Dates:
circa 1846
Frank K. Sawyer Indianapolis businesses collection
Collection — Folder S2703
Identifier: S2703
Scope and Contents
This collection contains an assortment of approximately 415 items collected by Frank K. Sawyer in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1854 to 1905, including correspondence, advertisements, flyers, brochures, bills, accounts, receipts, financial statements, invoices, and notes. Some receipts are handwritten on scraps of paper, while others are making use of printed business forms which display distinctive letterheads. Most of these receipts are mounted to the pages of a scrapbook and are often...
Dates:
1854-1905
G. Earl Daniels collection
Collection — Folder S1828
Identifier: S1828
Scope and Contents
This collection includes copies of several essays written by Rev. G. Earl Daniels, including "Green Apples," printed in a February 1, 1981 publication, "'Double Overtime' or Life After 80" written circa 1985, and "the Miracle of Marriage". The collection also includes a reprint of "When Charles Wesley Preached in Boston," a sermon preached by Rev. Daniels at Christ Church in Boston on September 23, 1973 in observance of the 237th anniversary of the visit of Charles Wesley in 1736.
Dates:
1973-1985
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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G. Earl Daniels collection
