Mack, Joseph Bingham, 1838-1912. Joseph Bingham Mack papers, 1853-1874.
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Joseph Bingham Mack papers, 1853-1874.
Letters discussing family news, the Presbyterian church, education, and other aspects of life in the southeast during antebellum and Reconstruction periods. Letter, 27 Sept. 1853, Lafayette, Indiana, Rev. William Mack, to his sons, William and Joseph, in Columbia, Tenn., re journey by boat along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to visit relatives in Indiana, followed by stops in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Rochester, N.Y., with his daughter, Mary (b. ca. 1841); when the family passed Louisville, Ky., Mack reports on a meeting with a well-known personality of the day, "At the Lock, Mary and I and others went to see the Kentucky giant, Mr. ["Big Jim"] Porter, whom you saw in 1851. He invited us to leave Mary in Kentucky, so that she might grow." Letter, 17 Aug. 1869, Columbia, Tenn., Rev. William Mack to his son, Rev. Joseph Mack, re family news that Joseph's brother was in Kansas and his mother was touring Europe, and discussing public schools and improved educational opportunities and expressing hope for the future in Maury County, Tenn., from a spiritual perspective, anticipating completion of 90 additional school buildings by the autumn, and hoping for more, barring interference by the Legislature, "I have done much hard work. Humanly speaking, no one could have done it, except one who had been a Union man, yet respected by the opposition.... Now free schools are popular.... The past year I have had 74 schools, in them 4004 pupils. Many of them would not otherwise have been taught.... The generation living here 15 years from now will not be like the present... God will prepare them for the times coming on the Earth after 1878 - the days when the Jewish curse will run out." Letter 29 July 1874, from John L[affayette] Girardeau, Charleston, S.C., soliciting Mack's counsel in the selection of an African American pastor for Zion Presbyterian Church, Calhoun St., a church previously pastored by Girardeau.
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