Allen Howard Godbey Papers, . 1785-1948 (bulk 1900-1948)

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Allen Howard Godbey Papers, . 1785-1948 (bulk 1900-1948)

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Allen Howard Godbey (1864-1948) of Missouri, was a Methodist minister, Methodist historian, and teacher, writer, and scholar in the field of the Old Testament, Hebrew history, archeology, and Semitics, and professor at Duke University, 1926-1932. The collection includes general and family correspondence, mainly 1900-1948, and writings of Godbey. Volumes include writings, notebooks, scrapbooks; also financial records of Central Methodist College at Fayette, Mo., 1900-1909. Materials earlier than 1900 (7 volumes and a few papers of scattered dates) pertain to the Reverend William Clinton Godbey, other Methodist preachers, and Methodism in 19th-century Missouri, including a preacher's diary and record, 1871-1872, on the St. Louis circuit.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Godbey, Allen Howard, 1864-1948

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Dr. Allen Godbey was born November 21, 1864 in Cooper County, Missouri. He received an A. M. degree in 1883 from Morrisville College and his Ph.D. from Chicago University in 1905. Dr. Godbey came to Duke University in the fall of 1926 as a scholar and teacher of Old Testament history in the School of Religion. Gradually, there developed a serious amount of friction between him and the rest of the faculty of the School. In January 1932, under the unanimous urging of that faculty, President Few an...