F.D. Leete collection on William Xavier Ninde family 1808-1955 1855-1925

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F.D. Leete collection on William Xavier Ninde family 1808-1955 1855-1925

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The papers in this collection document the church-related careers and activities of the Ninde family during the 1800s and early 1900s. Several members of the family became Methodist ministers and missionaries, the most notable of whom was William Xavier Ninde, elected a Methodist Episcopal Church bishop in 1884. The collection holds sermons, scrapbooks, diaries, correspondence, photographs, published and unpublished writings, and biographical information related to Bishop Ninde; his father and grandfather (William Ward Ninde and William Ninde, respectively); his brother (Henry S. Ninde); his children (Edward, George, Frederick, and Mary Ninde Gamewell); Mary Ninde Gamewell’s husband (Frank D. Gamewell) and his first wife, Mary Porter Gamewell.

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Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University

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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 ...

Ninde family.

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Ninde, William X. (William Xavier), 1832-1901

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Leete, Frederick Deland, 1866-1958

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Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839 – 1898) was an educator and social reformer dedicated to the causes of temperance and women’s suffrage. Willard graduated from North Western Female College in Evanston, Illinois, the valedictorian of the class of 1859. The following year, at the age of 21, she joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. After serving as president of the Evanston College for Ladies from 1871 to 1873 and Dean of Women at Northwestern University in 1874, ...