Correspondence, 1838.

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Correspondence, 1838.

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Letter to "Dear Cousin" (Miss Ursula Wales, Plymouth [Mich.?]) from Wales, dated Aug. 28, 1838. The front page of the letter is a printed program about the Junior Exhibition at the Oneida [Baptist] Institute on Aug. 15, 1838. Wales commented briefly about family, peacefully living alone, and the success of the program. He also included a poem about God. The letter was written by hand. The correspondence was a gift from John Cumming.

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Wales, Ursula.

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Wales, E. Vine.

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Wales may have been a teacher and/or minister at the Institute. The Institute was founded on Dec. 23, 1899 as the Mamre Baptist College. The Institute is currently a Christian boarding school for grades 6-12 in Oneida (Ky.). From the description of Correspondence, 1838. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 43851759 ...

Oneida Baptist Institute

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James Anderson Burns founded Oneida Baptist Institute at Oneida, Clay County, Kentucky in 1900. Four teachers and 125 students were on hand for the first day of school, January 1 of that year. In addition to educational basics there were courses in domestic science and manual arts, and an emphasis on religious instruction. By 1916 the Institute was operating extension schools in nearby communities, and teaching night classes for working adults, and had made sizable physical plant expansions. For...