Smith B. Goodenow, Rocktop: or The Lord Will Direct 1870 Goodenow, Smith B., Rocktop: or The Lord Will Direct

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Smith B. Goodenow, Rocktop: or The Lord Will Direct 1870 Goodenow, Smith B., Rocktop: or The Lord Will Direct

This volume is the draft of a novel entitled , written by Smith Bartlett Goodenow in January 1870. The novel concerns the formative years of a New England boy named Bartlett ("Bartie") Golden, who leaves his home at the age of 10 for Providence, Rhode Island, and eventually decides to become a minister. Rocktop: or The Lord Will Direct

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Goodenow, Smith B. (Smith Bartlett), 1817-1897

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Smith Bartlett Goodenow was born in Damariscotta, Maine, on May 16, 1817, the son of Nahum Goodenow and Sarah Elizabeth Russell. At the age of 10, following the death of his father, Goodenow moved in with relatives in Providence, Rhode Island. He attended Waterville College (now Colby University) for three years before transferring to Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 1838. He served as principal of Brunswick High School and as a school superintendent for several years and was licensed...

Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...

Beneficent Congregational Church (Providence, R.I.)

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Wayland, Francis, 1796-1865

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Clergyman and educator. From the description of Letter of Francis Wayland, 1835 December 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015490 Fourth president of Brown University (1827-1855), educator, Baptist clergyman. Wayland was a tutor at Union college from 1817 to 1821. He was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston, Mass., from 1821 to 1826. As president of Brown University, he made broad changes in the curriculm and introduced the analytic method...