Records, 1867-1907.

Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

Shurtleff, Giles Waldo, 1831-1924

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Giles Waldo Shurtleff was born in Canada in 1831 and came to the United States at age three. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1859 and married Mary E. Burton in 1864. During the Civil War, he served in Company C of the 7th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the 9th Army Corps, and the 5th U.S. Colored Troops. He reached the rank of brevetted Brigadier General. Following the war, Shurtleff returned to Oberlin to become a professor of Latin and Greek (1866-87). He also held positions as financi...

Marsh, James Brainard Taylor, 1839-1887

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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...

Castle, Henry Northrup, 1862-1895

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Journalist and political leader in Honolulu. Attended Oberlin College. From the description of Papers, 1872-1927 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 41484336 From the description of Papers, 1872-1927 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52246322 Mabel Wing Castle was born June 19, 1864 to Leander Joseph and Zillah Annette Lovering Wing in Providence, RI. She attended Wellesley College, graduatin...

Oberlin College. Treasurer's Office

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The first financial officer of Oberlin College was Eliphalet Redington, who was appointed Treasurer in 1833. During these early years and lasting until 1899, the Treasurer did double duty, also serving as Secretary (or "corresponding Secretary") for the Board of Trustees. As Secretary the Treasurer carried out all of the Board's correspondence, kept records of donations, fees collected, expenditures, loans and scholarships, business matters, and handled most other routine administrative matters....

Gray, Elisha, 1835-1901

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Elisha Gray (b. August 2, 1835, Barnesville, OH–d. January 21, 1901, Newtonville, MA) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. He is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois. There is a dispute over the inventor of the telephone: Gray or Alexander Graham Bell. Gray was a prolific inventor and also considered to be the father of the modern music synthesizer. In his lifetime, he was granted over...

Hatch, Reuben

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Pond, Chauncey Northrup, 1841-1920,

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Severance, James Ralph, 1846-1916

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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...

Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934

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Cass Gilbert was born on November 24, 1859, in Zanesville, Ohio, the son of General and Mrs. Samuel Augustus Gilbert. He received his education at MacAlester College, St. Paul, Minnesota and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge after working in a St. Paul architect's office. Following graduation, he traveled throughout Europe and upon his return, entered the office of McKim, Mead, and White, Architects in New York City. A year later, in 1882, he established his own off...