James S. Dickerson and family papers, 1839-1907.

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James S. Dickerson and family papers, 1839-1907.

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Letters of Dickerson, a Baptist minister and publisher in the East and Chicago, describing his education at Madison University, Hamilton, N.Y. (1840-1848), a European tour (1871), family matters, and daily life. Correspondence (1886-1907) of his son, James Spencer Dickerson, as writer and editor for various religious and secular publications, largely in Chicago. A letter (1850) from a Mrs. Webber, describing in detail a journey from Buffalo, N.Y., through Illinois to Minnesota.

0.2 cu. ft. (1 box).

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Dickerson, James Stokes, 1825-1886.

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Webber, Mrs.

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Dickerson, James Spencer, 1853-1933.

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Sale family.

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