Papers, 1847-1970.

Cox, James M. (James Middleton), 1870-1957

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James Middleton Cox (March 31, 1870 – July 15, 1957) was the 46th and 48th Governor of Ohio, a U.S. Representative from Ohio, and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States at the 1920 presidential election. His running mate during his presidential campaign was future president Franklin D. Roosevelt. He founded the chain of newspapers that continues today as Cox Enterprises, a media conglomerate. Born and raised in Ohio, Cox began his career as a newspaper copy reader before be...

Steiner, Edward Alfred, 1866-1956

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Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937

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Author; United States ambassador to Italy. From the description of Autograph poem signed, entitled "Rheims", 1814 Sep. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270492661 From the description of Autograph poem "The Cost" signed, 1914 Aug. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270492676 Epithet: Editor 'The Century Magazine' New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x000372 Magazine ed...

Mills, Benjamin Fay, 1857-1916

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Beach, David Nelson, 1848-1926

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David Nelson Beach (1848-1926) was an American theologian, who graduated from Yale College (AB 1872) and from Yale Divinity School in 1876. He became a Congregational minister with a parish at Westerly, Rhode Island. Later Beach had parishes at Wakefield and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Denver, Colorado. From 1903-1921 he was President and Professor of Sacred Rhetoric at the Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor, Maine. He was active with the Anti-Saloon Leag...

Smith, Charles Spague, 1853-1910.

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McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949

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Journalist, writer of books for boys. From the description of S.S. McClure check to James Barnes, 1898 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53795304 American publisher. From the description of Letter to Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1892 October 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51846140 ...

Day, William H. (William Horace), b. 1866.

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White, William Allen, 1868-1944

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American journalist known as the "Sage of Emporia"; owner and editor of the "Emporia Gazette." From the description of Papers of William Allen White, 1890-1940 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647837106 Journalist. From the description of Letters, 1889-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122644557 Pulitzer Prize-winning Emporia, Kansas, newspaper editor and author. From the description of William Allen White letter...

Strong, Josiah, 1847-1916

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Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922

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American clergyman, author, and editor who worked with Henry Ward Beecher as co-editor of the "Christian Union." From the description of Autograph, 1897. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367554802 American author. From the description of Letter : Cornwall on Hudson, [N.Y.] to Mr. Bok, 1908 Oct. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 33376379 Lyman Abbott was an influential American pastor and author. Born in Massachusetts and educated i...

Thompson, William Oxley, 1855-1933

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WIlliam Oxley Thompson was born in Cambridge, Ohio on November 5, 1855. He received an A.B. in 1878 and a D.D. in 1891 from Muskingum College. On April 13, 1881, Thompson was licensed by the Presbytery of Zanesville at Dresden, Ohio. He served as a home missionary and pastor in Odebolt, Iowa from 1882 to 1885. From 1885 to 1889, Thompson served as President of Longmont College in Colorado. In 1891, the Miami University Board of Trustees named Thompson President of Miami University. During his te...

Burton, Theodore E. (Theodore Elijah), 1851-1929

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U.S. Representative (1889-91, 1895-1909, and 1921-28) and Senator (1909-15 and 1928-29) from Cleveland, Ohio. While in Congress, Burton was involved in a number of important issues of the day, and was also a prominent figure in Republican Party politics. He maintained a lifelong involvement in the international peace movement. Burton was a candidate in the 1907 Cleveland mayoral election, losing to Democrat Tom L. Johnson. A bachelor, he was close to his niece, Grace Burton, who became a politic...

Knight, George W. (George Wells), 1858-1932

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Civil War soldier. Enlisted in Co. D., 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Regiment on Sept. 1, 1864. Transferred to the 17th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment on Feb. 16, 1865. From the description of The George W. Knight papers, 1864-1865. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 24094825 ...

Peabody, Francis Greenwood, 1847-1936

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Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847-1936) graduated from Harvard College in 1869 and Harvard Divinity School in 1872. Ordained in 1874, Peabody served the First Parish (Unitarian) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until 1879. Peabody then joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School teaching theological students Christian ethics, specializing in pioneer applications of religion to social problems. He was the Parkman Professor of Theology from 1881 to 1885 and then the Plummer Professor of Christian Mora...

Thwing, Charles Franklin, 1853-1937

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Charles Franklin Thwing, author and president of Western Reserve University's Adelbert College. Robert Ellis Thompson, educator, editor, and author; editor of Encyclopedia American and lecturer at Harvard and Princeton. Glen Walton Blodgett, autograph seeker. From the description of Letters to Prof. R.E. Thompson and Glen W. Blodgett, 1882 May 20, 1902 November 10. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 55230946 ...

Rauschenbusch, Walter, 1861-1918

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Gladden, Washington, 1836-1918

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Congregational clergyman, author, and lecturer. From the description of Washington Gladden papers, 1884-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435826 From the guide to the Washington Gladden papers, 1884-1894, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) American Congregational minister and social reformer, as well as the author of many books and hymns. From the description of Washington Gladden letters to Riverside Press [manuscript], 1899 Oct 2 and 7. (Universi...

Pomerene, Atlee, 1863-1937

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Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 1847-1903

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Bemis, Edward Webster, 1860-1930

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Jones, Samuel Milton, 1846-1904

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Mayor of Toledo, Ohio, reformer and businessman. From the description of Papers of Samuel Milton Jones, 1892-1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068120 ...

Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William), 1899-1993

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Landscape architect. Educated at Harvard: A.B. 1920, M.L.A. 1923. Charles William Eliot II was the son of Samuel Atkins Eliot and the grandson of Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909. From the description of Biography of Samuel Atkins Eliot, ca.1885-1956 (inclusive), 1954-1956 (bulk). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 269368155 Charles William Eliot (1899- ) served with other Harvard men in the American Red Cross Ambu...

Tyler, Moses Coit, 1835-1900

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Professor of English Literature at University of Michigan. Editor of The Christian Union. From the description of Postcard, 1899, December 10, to "Dear Sir". (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384204 Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. From the description of Moses Coit Tyler papers, 1864-1897 and 1920-1921. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419205 American author. From the description of A...

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

Atkins, Gaius Glenn, 1868-1956

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Dr. Atkins was minister of First Congregational Church, Detroit. From the description of The maze of the nations and the way out, 1915. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 321076775 ...

Ward, William Hayes, 1835-1916

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William Hayes Ward, 1835-1916, born Abington, Mass. Editor, Assyriologist, author. Educated 1856 Amherst, 1859 graduated Andover Seminary, 1885 LLD Amherst. Ordained Congregationalist minister. Associate editor, later editor-in-chief of "The Independent" (New York weekly) between 1868-1913. Director of Wolfe Expedition to Babylonia 1884-85. President of American Oriental Society. Wrote Biography of Sydney Lanier, What I Believe and Why, etc. Samuel Sydney McClure,1857-19...

Herrick, Myron T. (Myron Timothy), 1854-1929

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Governor of Ohio 1904-1906; American ambassador to France, 1912-1929. From the description of Letter, 1916. (Ohio University). WorldCat record id: 12710420 Humanitarian, financier, industrialist, Governor of Ohio, and United States Ambassador to France. Herrick served as president and chairman of the board of the Society for Savings, Cleveland, Ohio. He also had numerous other local and national business interests. Herrick was involved in Ohio and national Republican Party p...

Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949

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Stephen Samuel Wise was born in Budapest, Hungary, and came to the United States the following year. He graduated with honors from Columbia University and in 1893 he was ordained in Austria "The People's Rabbi," as Wise would later be known, developed his deep concern for the less fortunate at an early age. Wise fought for housing projects, the abolition of child labor, the improvement of working conditions, securing rights for female workers and equal rights for African Americans. He founded th...

Dunning, A. E. (Albert Elijah), 1844-1923

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Albert Elijah Dunning (1844-1923), son of Elijah Starr and Abigail Emily Beach Dunning, was born in Brookfield, Conn. He graduated from Yale in 1867 and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1870. From 1870 to 1881, he was pastor of the Highland Congregational Church in Boston. He was secretary of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society from 1881 to 1889 and editor of _The Congregationalist_ from 1889 to 1911. He was a member of the International Sunday School Lesson Committee...

Proctor, Henry Hugh, 1868-1933

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