James Dodson Barbee and David Rankin Barbee Papers 1784-1953 (bulk 1852-1904)

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James Dodson Barbee and David Rankin Barbee Papers 1784-1953 (bulk 1852-1904)

James Dodson Barbee, Methodist clergyman in Tennessee and Alabama and publishing agent, and son David Rankin Barbee, journalist. Correspondence, including family letters, notebooks, account books, printed matter, notes, and sermons chiefly relating to the Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tennessee, and to claims of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, growing out of Civil War property confiscations, and to the writings and research of David Rankin Barbee.

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