Garman papers, 1732-1932 (bulk 1862-1907).

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Garman papers, 1732-1932 (bulk 1862-1907).

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Extensive personal and family correspondence, pamphlets, lecture notes, student papers, business records, photographs and other materials documenting the personal and professional life of Garman as professor of Mathematics and Philosophy at Amherst College. The bulk of the collection is made up of correspondence of Garman and his wife Eliza Miner Garman as well as that of several members of the Miner family: Affa Miner Tuttle, Jean Miner, Worthington W. Miner (AC 1868), D.W. Miner, and Julius F. Miner. Garman's papers include notebooks kept while a student at Yale Divinity School, 1877-1878, and materials related to his teaching at Amherst, including lecture notes, printed pamphlets, and an extensive collection of student papers.

64 boxes, 1 wrapped item (35 linear ft.)

Amherst College. Library

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Amherst College. Library

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Garman, Eliza Miner

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Amherst College. Class of 1868. Miner.

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Miner family.

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Miner, Worthington W. (Worthington Warner), 1847-1920

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Miner, David W.

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Yale university. Divinity school

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For more than a century, theological instruction was conducted by Yale's president or by the Professor of Divinity, a position established by Thomas Clap in 1746. During these years, however, Yale did not have a formally established Divinity School. The college began to feel the lack of a separately established department in the beginning of the nineteenth century as more New England colleges--such as Williams, Middlebury, Union, and Hamilton--began to draw students to their seminar...

Miner, Jean.

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Tuttle, Affa Miner.

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Amherst College. Class of 1872. Garman.

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Garman, Charles Edward, 1850-1907

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Charles Edward Garman, Professor of Moral and Mental Philosophy at Amherst College, was born on December 18, 1850 in Limington, Maine. He prepared for college at the high school in Athol, Massachusetts. After graduating from Amherst in 1872, as an outstanding student, he was principal of the Ware, Mass. high school from 1872 to 1876. After this period he studied theology at Yale Divinity school, graduating from there in 1879. The next year he was appointed to the Hooker fellowship at Yale for tw...

Miner, Julius F.

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