Collection of Sweet family papers 1873-1960 1873-1916

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Collection of Sweet family papers 1873-1960 1873-1916

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This collection contains the ministerial papers of the Rev. Dr. William Henry Sweet (1843-1919) and personal papers of his son and daughter-in-law William Warren Sweet and Louise M. Neill Sweet and their children W. W. Sweet, Jr., Elizabeth Louise Sweet Hix, and Paul R. Sweet. William Henry Sweet was a Kansas Methodist clergyman and educator. William Warren Sweet was a Methodist minister and noted church historian. The collection offers insights into William Henry Sweet’s public ministry and his descendants’ private lives.

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Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University

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Sweet, William Henry.

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Sweet family.

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Sweet, William Warren, 1881-1959

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William Warren Sweet, Professor of American Church History at the University of Chicago, was born in Baldwin, Kansas, in 1881. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University, A.B., 1902; Drew Theological Seminary, B.D., 1906; Crozer Theological Seminary, M.TH. 1907; the University of Pennsylvania, A.M., 1909; Ph.D., 1912. Ohio Wesleyan awarded Sweet a D.Litt. in 1935 and DePauw University a L.H.D. in 1956. Sweet taught at Ohio Wesleyan, 1911-1912, DePauw University, where he was professor and chairman of ...

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...

Methodist Episcopal Church

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The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in the U.S. in 1784. The first general conference was held in 1792 and the constitution was adopted in 1900. In 1939 the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church united to form the Methodist Church (U.S.). From the description of Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1791-1945. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122455885 From the guide to the Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1791-1945, (The New ...