James family papers and sermons, 1808-1888.

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James family papers and sermons, 1808-1888.

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Family correspondence and sermons documenting the family and career of William James as a Presbyterian minister in New York State. The collection includes correspondence among James' brothers and sisters concerning the amputation of the leg of his half-brother Henry James (1811-1882); also, correspondence from Catherine Barber James Prince to Elizabeth Tillman James Seelye concerning mental health and its cures. Other correspondents include Marcia Ames James, Anna Hawley Seelye Emerson, Marcia Lucretia Ames James and William Henry Prince.

5 archives boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

Amherst College. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7612650

Amherst College. Library

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Emerson, Anna H. Seelye, 1866-1901

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Prince, Catherine Barber James.

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Seelye, Julius H. (Julius Hawley), 1824-1895

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1849 graduate of Amherst College. Clergyman, educator, author and politician. Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, Amherst College, 1858-1877; President, 1877-1890. Member, U.S. House of Representatives, 44th Congress, 1875-1877. Trustee, Mount Holyoke College, 1872-1895. Member, Board of Visitors, Andover Theological Seminary, 1874-1892. Married Elizabeth Tillman James in 1854 and had four children: Anna, Mabel, Elizabeth and William. From the description of Seelye papers, 1824...

Seelye, Elizabeth Tillman James, 1833-1881

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Brick Presbyterian Church (Rochester, N.Y.)

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James family.

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James, Henry, 1811-1882

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Henry James Sr. and his wife Mary Walsh James (1810-1882) were the parents of the novelist Henry James Jr., the philosopher William James, the diarist Alice James, Robertson James, and Garth Wilkinson James. From the guide to the Letters from Henry James Sr. and Mary Walsh James to various correspondents, 1827-1878., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Henry James Sr. was an American philosophical theologian. He and his wife Mary Robertson Walsh J...

Prince, William Henry.

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James, Marcia Ames.

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James, Marcia Lucretia Ames.

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James, William, 1797-1868

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William James was born in 1797. He was a graduate of Princeton. He preached for a time at Clarkson, N.Y. and assumed the pastorate of the Brick Presbyterian Church, Rochester, N.Y., in 1826. He resigned in 1830 to go to the Third Presbyterian Church at Albany, N.Y., where he died Feb. 16, 1868, aged 61. Rev. James was the half-brother of the theological philosopher Henry James, Sr., and uncle of the philosopher William James and novelist Henry James. His daughter, Elizabeth Tillman James, marrie...

Third Presbyterian Church (Albany, N.Y.)

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