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Roberts, Ephraim Peter, 1825-1893. Ephraim Peter Roberts papers, circa 1775-1968.

Title: Ephraim Peter Roberts papers, circa 1775-1968.

Papers of Ephraim Peter Roberts and his wife Myra Farrington Roberts, missionaries from Vermont and Maine who served in Panape (Pohnpei Island), Caroline Islands, Micronesia, in the mid-19th century, and later settled in The Dalles, Oregon. The collection consists of correspondence, journals, and genealogical notes on the Roberts and Farrington families. The journals (1857-1961) of Ephraim and Myra Roberts relate to the voyage to Micronesia on the packet Morning Star and to their stay in Ponape. Included are early Farrington family letters, letters received by Ephraim Roberts while at Williams College and Bangor Theological Seminary, letters to the Roberts' from their families in Maine and Vermont, and letters from fellow missionaries in the Pacific. Correspondents include: Hiram Bingham, Jr., Elias Bond, Titus Coan, Samuel C. Damon, Edward P. and Sarah Doane, Charlotte C. Dole, Daniel Farrington (Myra's brother in California), Jonathan S. Green, Louisa L. Gulick, Luther Halsey, David B. and Sarah Lyman, George and Nancy A. Pierson, Benjamin G. Snow, A.A. Sturges, Booker T. Washington, and Charles H. Wetmore.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic feet (3 document cases, 1 oversize folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70670636 View

Doane, Edward Topping, 1820-1890. Edward T. and Clara Strong Doane papers, 1865-1890.

Title: Edward T. and Clara Strong Doane papers, 1865-1890.

Chiefly outgoing correspondence of Edward and Clara Doane, with family members, relating to their voyage to Ponape, including the period on the steamer Golden Rule (1865 May 20-1865 June 5), its shipwreck near Rinconda Key in the Caribbean, and subsequent voyage from Panama aboard the steamer America, experiences in Micronesia, activities as missionaries in Kyoto, Japan (1873-1877), and Edward's later return to Ponape, after the death of his wife, whereafter he was imprisoned in the Philippines during the 1887 Spanish occupation of the Caroline Islands; journals of Clara Doane, including letters to her sisters; letter (1865 May 20) from Mary A. White, written from New York, N.Y., to Mrs. A. Edwards, concerning the departure for Micronesia of Clara Doane; translations of the gospels of Luke and John and the Ponapeian Primer, possibly done by Hiram Bingham II, Minerva Clarissa Brewster Bingham, or Louisa Mitchell Lewis Gulick, all Micronesian missionaries involved in extensive translation work; printed materials; and other papers.

ArchivalResource: 12 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70953943 View

Ephraim Roberts papers, circa 1775-1968

Title: Ephraim Roberts papers circa 1775-1968

Papers of a missionary from Vermont and Maine who served in Panape, Micronesia, in the mid-19th century and later settled in The Dalles, Oregon. Includes journals of Roberts and his wife Myra Farrington Roberts, correspondence, family letters, biographical materials and genealogies.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 cubic feet; 4 document cases, 1 oversize folder

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv65677 View

Snow, Lydia Vose Buck, 1820-1887. Papers, 1851-[198-].

Title: Papers, 1851-[198-].

Correspondence (1879) written by Edward T. Doane of ABCFM to the Snows; letters from Luther H. Gulick written to Doane; personal papers (ca. 1851-1870) of Aurelia Elizabeth Snow; account of Kosrae written by Benjamin Galen Snow; materials (ca. 1980s) compiled by Patricia H. Thurston relating to the family of Ebenezer and Mehitable Vose Buck, parents of Lydia Snow, of Robbinston, Me.; and photographs of family and non-family members including Kamehameha III, King of the Hawaiian Islands.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70978972 View