Levi Brotherton papers, 1832-1919.

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Levi Brotherton papers, 1832-1919.

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The collection contains papers of Levi Brotherton from 1832-1919, including correspondence, documents, certificates and licenses, notebook, receipts and bills, genealogical information, and a pamphlet. Correspondence is among Brotherton family members and with others discussing personal and family business matters. One letter from Levi's son James M. Brotherton (d. 1863) discusses the fortification of Vicksburg, Mississippi; letters to Levi Brotherton from Bishop James O. Andrew (1848; 1850) express sympathy at the death of Brotherton's wife as well as church matters. Documents include a family military pass, a military commission, and legal documents; genealogical information includes plans for Brotherton's burial, an obituary written by Brotherton, and family Bible information; licenses are Brotherton's to preach and to conduct business; the notebook contains Brotherton's sermons; and the pamphlet is Brotherton's "A Condensed Sketch..."

.25 linear ft. (1 box)

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6813676

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Brotherton, James, -1775

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Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 39th.

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Andrew, James O. (James Osgood), 1794-1871

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James Osgood Andrew, Methodist bishop and author, was born 3 May 1794, in Wilkes County, Georgia, and died 1 March 1871, in Mobile, Alabama. He was made a deacon (1814), an elder (1816), and a bishop (1832) in the Methodist Episcopal Church; was a trustee of the Manual Labor School in Covington, Georgia, (1836); and president of the board of trustees of Emory College (1838-1870). Southern pastors, who protested when Andrew was asked to resign his bishopric because his wife owned slaves, formed t...

Brotherton family.

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Brotherton, Levi, 1810-1893.

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Levi Brotherton (October 8, 1810-November 22, 1893) was born in Greene County, East Tennessee and died in Atlanta, Georgia. His father, John T. Brotherton, moved to Blount County, Tennessee in 1824. Levi lived with his parents until 1833. In that year he received his license to exhort and went into the Cherokee Indian Nation. He remained there five years until the Indians were pushed westward. Near Dalton, Levi got his license to preach in 1837; was ordained deacon in 1842 at Knoxville; was orda...