The Prime family manuscript collection 1723-1890 .

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The Prime family manuscript collection 1723-1890 .

This contains materials associated with a number of family members dating from as early as the 1720s to as late as the 1890s. The bulk of the content, however, relates to Ebenezer, Nathaniel Scudder, and Samuel Irenaeus Prime. The collection holds hundreds of sermons written by these individuals as well as letters, ministerial records, legal documents, notebooks, manuscripts, and family histories.

16 boxes (7.6 linear feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7638212

Princeton Theological Seminary

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Prime family.

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Prime, Samuel Irenæus, 1812-1885

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Samuel Irenæus Prime studied theology at Princeton and became a Presbyterian clergyman, but left the ministry after four years and moved to New York where he established The observer, a religious periodical. He wrote on a variety of subjects, including his European travels and a biography about Samuel F.B. Morse, but was best known for his "Irenaeus letters," published between 1880 and 1885. From the description of S.I. Prime letter to My dear brother, 1877 Mar. 21. (Pennsylvania Sta...

Princeton Theological Seminary. Library

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