John W. M. Williams papers, 1838-1902 [manuscript].

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John W. M. Williams papers, 1838-1902 [manuscript].

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Chiefly manuscript sermons, articles, and a diary, 1838-1867, of John W. M. Williams, who was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Baltimore, Md., 1851-1884. The diary begins while Williams was a college student and preacher in his native Virginia, follows his career in Baltimore, and ends with a European tour. Also included are minutes of the Portsmouth, Va., Ministerial Association of the Baptist Church, 1845-1846; a small amount of church correspondence, 1890-1895; and a diary, 1881-1883, of the European trip of Williams's son-in-law, Joshua Walker Gore, who was a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina.

About 250 items (1.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7111911

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Gore, Joshua Walker, 1852-1908.

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Ministerial Association of the Baptist Church (Portsmouth, Va.)

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Williams, John W. M., b. 1820?

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John W. M. Williams (born 1820?), native of Portsmouth, Va., was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Baltimore, Md., 1851-1884. He married Corinthia Read of Maryland. One of their daughters married J. W. Gore of the University of North Carolina. From the guide to the John W. M. Williams Papers, ., 1838-1902, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

First Baptist Church (Baltimore, Md.)

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