Papers, 1877-1937.

Pilgrim Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio)

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Metcalf, Irving Wight, 1855-1938

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Born in Bangor, Maine, Irving W. Metcalf graduated from Oberlin College in 1878 and the Graduate School of Theology in 1881. Metcalf served Congregational churches in Columbus and Cleveland, and was superintendent of the Congregational City Mission Society from 1894-97. He resigned his pastorate and engaged in business in Kansas. Following a brief stint in Kansas he returned to Ohio as a bank director and executor of estates. He acted as the intermediary for Charles Martin Hall's property purcha...

King, Henry Churchill, 1858-1934

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Henry Churchill King was born at Hillsdale, Michigan on September 18, 1858. He received the A.B. from Oberlin College in 1879 and the B.D. from the Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1882. In 1884, after a year spent at Harvard University, he returned to Oberlin as Associate Professor of Mathematics. In 1890, he became Associate Professor and in 1891 Professor of Philosophy. He spent the year 1893-94 at the University of Berlin. In 1897, he succeeded President James H. Fairchild as Professor of The...

Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899

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American evangelist and publisher. From the description of Dwight L. Moody letter to Will Owen Jones [manuscript], 1898 June 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648018911 Dwight Lyman Moody was an American evangelist. Born in Massachusetts, he achieved some success in business in Chicago, where he became involved in Sunday school and later was a popular public speaker. Although not an ordained minister, he recruited Ira Sankey, and the two toured America and En...

Fairchild, James H.

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James Harris Fairchild (1817-1902) was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Brownhelm in the Western Reserve of Northern Ohio. He graduated in the first freshman class of Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1838 and completed the theological course in 1841. He taught languages, mathematics, and systematic theology at Oberlin and was elected President in 1866, replacing Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875). Fairchild served until 1889 and died in 1902. From the description of...

Oberlin College. Graduate School of Theology

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The Graduate School of Theology began as the Theological Department of Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1833. Academic work began in 1835 with the arrival of rebel seminarians from Lane Theological Seminary. By the 1870s, the school had become known as the Oberlin Theological Seminary. Its name changed to the Graduate School of Theology in 1916. The purpose of the seminary throughout its 133-year history was the training of ministers in a non-sectarian, non-denominational setting. The seminary cl...

Monroe, James, 1821-1898

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James Monroe (1821-1898) was born in 1821 to New England Quakers. Well-educated, Monroe joined the American Anti-Slavery Society lecture circuit in 1841. In 1844 he enrolled in Oberlin College and earned the A.B. in 1846 and the B.D. in 1849. After holding a pastorate in Sandusky, Ohio, he was named professor of Belles Lettres at Oberlin College in 1849. Monroe's antislavery activity led him through several political changes, moving from Garrisonian views, to the Liberty and Free-Soil parties be...

Anti-saloon League of America

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Temperance organization, with offices in Columbia, S.C., at 1302 Main Street near Lady Street; founded, 1893, in Oberlin, Ohio. From the description of Records, 1919 July 14-1920 Feb. 17. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 56526390 ...

Hough Avenue Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio)

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Smith, Judson, 1837-1906

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Educator, Congregational minister; born June 18, 1837; educated at Amherst College and Oberlin College (DD, 1863); taught at Willison Seminary (1864-1866), Oberlin Theological Serminary (1866-1884), and Hartford Theological Serminary; ordained, 1866; appointed Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), 1884, and Foreign Secretary; traveled to Turkey to observe ABCFM's work there and attended the World Missionary Conference in London, 1888; visite...

Wheeler, Wayne Bidwell, 1869-1927

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Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America. From the description of Wayne Bidwell Wheeler papers, 1918-1926. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421182 ...

Haskell, Katharine Wright, 1874-1929

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Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902

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American author and historian. From the description of Letter and an envelope, 1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367396091 John Henry Barrows was born in Medina, Michigan in 1847. He studied at Olivet College, Yale Divinity School, Union Theological Seminary, and Andover Theological Seminary before being ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1875. In 1881, he became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. In 1893, he organized the World's Parliament of Re...

Metcalf, Wilder S., 1855-1929.

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Ohio Sabbath Union.

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Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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Booker T. Washington was an African American educator and public figure. Born a slave on a small farm in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he worked his way through the Hampton Institute and became an instructor there. He was the first principal of the Tuskegee Institute, and under his management it became a successful center for practical education. A forceful and charismatic personality, he became a national figure through his books and lectures. Although his conservative views concerned many critics, he...

Eastwood Congregational Church (Columbus, Ohio)

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Olney, Chrles Fayette, 1831-1903.

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Congregational City Missionary Society (Cleveland, Ohio)

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Shurtleff, Giles Waldo, 1831-1904.

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Cady, Chauncey M., 1854-1925

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Hall, Charles Martin, 1863-1914

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Chemist, inventor, manufacturer, and Oberlin College benefactor. Born in Thomson, Ohio and raised in Oberlin, Ohio, Hall was educated at Oberlin College (A.B. 1885, A.M. 1893, honorary L.L.D. 1910). In 1886, Hall discovered the electrolytic process of reducing aluminum from its ores (patent applied for, 1886; granted 1889). When the Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company of Lockport, New York gave up the option on the patent, Hall obtained financial backing from t...

Pinneo, Annie E., 1876-1960.

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Harding, Warren Gamaliel, 1865-1923

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Warren Gamaliel Harding (b. November 2, 1865, Blooming Grove, Ohio-d. August 2, 1923, San Francisco, California) was an American politician who served as the 29th President of the United States from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923....

Allen, Devere, 1891-1955

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King, H. H. (Hsiang-hsi), 1880-1967.

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