Records, 1805-1984.

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Records, 1805-1984.

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Minutes, reports, correspondence, organizational files and scrapbooks of this orga ization, its predecessors, auxiliaries and affiliated organizations. Material on early Illinois Baptist history. John Mason Peck, James Lemen, and Mason Brayman material. Various congregations of the Baptized Church of Christ, Friends to Humanity are documented. A manusscript copy of J.D. Cole's "History of Illinois Baptists" is included. Shurtleff College records, from its opening until its closing.

31 linear feet 25 1/2 boxes + 23 oversize volumes.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Peck, John Mason, 1789-1858

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Born in Connecticut, came west as an itinerant evangelist and strong abolitionist, settled in St. Clair County, Illinois. In 1827 he opened his Rock Spring Theological Seminary and High School which moved to Alton, Illinois in 1832 and was renamed Shurtleff College. From the description of Papers, 1819-1856. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53458400 ...

Illinois Baptist State Convention.

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Lemen, James, 1760-1823

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Brayman, Mason, 1813-1895

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Brayman was born in Buffalo, New York on May 23, 1813. Raised with a Calvinist outlook and a hatred of liquor, he was apprenticed to a printer at the age of 17. Five years later he became editor of a local newspaper. In addition to his work with newspapers, he studied law and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1836. The year after his admission to the bar, Brayman married his wife, Mary. She was a direct descendant of Roger Williams and the union produced two daughters and a son. Following h...

American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region

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American Baptist Missions.

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Shurtleff College

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Coles, J. D.

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