Simons Family Papers 1887-1982 (bulk 1918-1945)

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Simons Family Papers 1887-1982 (bulk 1918-1945)

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Members of the Simons (Simmons) family, an African-American family centered in South Carolina and Washington, D.C., especially William H. Simons (1881-1938), Baptist missionary and Young Men's Christian Association official, and members of the allied Garrett and Nicholson families. Correspondence, diaries and diary notes, and miscellaneous material relating chiefly to William H. Simons and his career with the YMCA in Burma, East Africa, and India and as a Baptist missionary in Nigeria.

3,850 items; 16 containers; 6.4 linear feet

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6356329

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Biographical Note William H. Simons 1881, Oct. 2 Born, Columbia, S.C. circa 1900 1917 Attended intermittently Benedict College, Columbia, S.C. and Virginia Union College, Richmond, Va. 1918 ...