James Peet papers, 1846-1871.

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James Peet papers, 1846-1871.

Correspondence (1854-1871), diaries (1855-1866), sermons, and newspaper clippings (1855-1860) related to the family and career of an itinerant Methodist Episcopal minister who served missions in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

1.5 cu. ft. (4 boxes, including 11 v.).

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SNAC Resource ID: 6707080

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Peet, Harriet Evens, ca. 1828-1914.

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Evans family.

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Rice, Henry M. (Henry Mower), 1816-1894

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Culver, Joshua B., 1830-1883.

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Felt, Charles W. (Charles Wilson), 1834-

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United States. Army

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Merritt family.

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Chaffee, James Franklin, 1827-1911.

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Merritt, Hepzibah Jewett, 1812-1906.

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Evens family.

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Merritt, Lewis, 1809-1880.

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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 ...

Marvin, Luke, 1820-1880.

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Hamlin, edward Oscar, 1828-

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Pugh, John

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Peet, James, 1828-1866.

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James Peet was born in Palermo, New York on November 18, 1828. He came to St. Paul, Minnesota, as a Methodist missionary in 1855. From 1856 to 1861 he was located in Superior, Wisconsin and Oneota (Duluth), Minnesota. At the same time he ministered to missions in Bayfield and La Pointe, Wisconsin. During the Civil War, Peet was chaplain for an African American regiment, the 12th Louisiana Volunteers, which later became the 50th Colored Infantry Regiment. He was appointed...

Carey, John R. (John Richard), 1830-1905

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Hobart, Chauncey, 1811-1904

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Brooks, Jabez, 1823-1910.

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Brooks, David, 1803-1891.

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Wright, William E.

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Fullerton, Thomas M., 1817-

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Ely, Edmund Franklin, 1809-1882

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Edmund Franklin Ely was born in Wilbraham Massachusetts on August 3, 1809. He was a choir director, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Albany, New York, and began his ministerial studies (1828). He was appointed by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1832 and left New York, arriving in La Pointe, Wisconsin the following year. From that time until 1849 he served Ojibwe missions in Fond du Lac, Pokegama, and Sandy Lake, Minnesota. His diaries indicate that he was in a...

New York Juvenile Asylum

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The New York Juvenile Asylum (NYJA) was founded in 1851 by a group of prominent businessmen and professionals concerned about vagrancy among poor children in New York City. The Asylum was designed to house, educate, reform, and find placement for the numerous homeless and runaway boys and girls found daily on the streets of New York. The founders conceived of the Asylum as a place for non-delinquent children--an alternative to the punitive House of Refuge for young criminals. After ...

Ely, Catherine Bissell, 1817-1880?

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Roos, Oscar, 1827-

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Peet family.

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