Collection on the Perkins and Prothro families 1846-2009 1945-1989

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Collection on the Perkins and Prothro families 1846-2009 1945-1989

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The Collection on the Perkins and Prothro families documents the lives of philanthropists Joe J. and Lois Perkins, their daughter Elizabeth Perkins Prothro, and her husband Charles N. Prothro. The two families were benefactors of Southern Methodist University (SMU) and especially of its School of Theology, which was renamed in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Perkins in 1945. This collection contains correspondence, reports, printed material, photographs, and news articles detailing the two families’ interactions with SMU, Southwestern University, and Sweet Briar College.

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Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University

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Perkins, Lois Craddock, 1887-1983

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Perkins School of Theology

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The School of Theology at Southern Methodist University was one of the original schools established at the new university upon its opening in 1915. Although SMU was a small, newly-built institution on the distant edges of Dallas at the time, the theology school was expected to assume a prominent place within the Methodist Church. Church leaders intended the school to serve as the principal locale for the training of Methodist clergymen west of the Mississippi, with Emory University ...

Perkins, Joe J.

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Prothro family.

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Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.

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William Henry Sweet was born on July 14, 1843 in Brown County, Ohio to Benjamin F. and Jane Robinson Sweet. He studied at Goshen Academy, 1865-1866; South West Normal (Lebanon, Ohio), 1866-1867; and Ohio Wesleyan University, A.B. 1872 and A.M. 1875. Chaddock College in Quincy, Illinois granted Sweet an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1885. In 1875, Rev. Sweet married Rose A. Williams, a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College, class of 1871. They raised five c...

Perkins family.

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Prothro, Elizabeth Perkins

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