Edward Tallmadge Root family papers 1804-1948 1874-1948

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Edward Tallmadge Root family papers 1804-1948 1874-1948

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Correspondence, diaries, sermons, essays, speeches, and printed matter relating to E. Tallmadge Root's service as a Congregational minister in churches in New England, 1890-1935. Included also are speeches made in connection with his candidacy in Massachusetts for governor (1940) and Senator (1944) for the Prohibition Party. Personal papers include autograph albums, family account books, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family correspondence. One-third of the papers consist of diaries kept by E. Tallmadge Root from 1874 to 1948; by William Scott Root from 1874 to 1880; and by other family members from 1842 to 1899.

3.5 linear feet (4 boxes)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351197

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Root family

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Prohibition Party

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Tallmadge, Samuel, 1755-1825

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Samuel Tallmadge was born at Brookhaven, N.Y. on November 23, 1755 and died April 1, 1825 at Charleston, N.Y. He married Mary Hilton of Albany, N.Y. in 1783. Tallmadge was an active merchant at Rhinebeck, N.Y. and later at Charleston, where he also operated a farm. Tallmadge was a member of the Suffolk County General Association and enlisted in the Continental Army in 1776. He was promoted to Ensign and later Lieutenant of the Fourth New York Regiment of the Continental ...

Root, William Scott

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Root, Edward Tallmadge, 1865-1948

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Edward Tallmadge Root: clergyman; graduate, N.Y. Classical Institute, 1883; A.B., Yale, 1887, B.D., 1890; ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church, 1890; pastor, Second Congregational Church, Baltimore, 1891-1896, Elmwood Temple Congregational Church, Providence, 1896-1904; secretary, R.I. Federation of Churches, 1903-1912, Mass. Federation of Churches, 1904-1930; pastor, Congregational Church, Westmore, Vermont, 1933-1935; prohibition candidate for governor, 1940, for U.S. Senator, 1...

Congregational Churches in the United States.

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