Records, 1906-1955 1927-1949.

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Records, 1906-1955 1927-1949.

Includes financial records; minutes of the Advisory Committee of the Archdeaconry of the Blue Ridge, the Board of Mountain Works, and the Committee of Mountain Work; publications, including some issues of Our Mountain Work in the Diocese of Virginia and the Mountain Echo; and miscellaneous correspondence of Albert N. Jones, Wiley R. Mason, and George P. Mayo pertaining to the founding, organization, staffing and general management of Episcopal mission congregations, schools and other programs in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The collection also consists of a register of the Annual Conference of Workers of the Archdeaconry of the Blue Ridge, historical chronologies, mailing and staff lists, maps, property files, photographs, and Xerox copies of the memoirs of George J. Cleaveland, Florence Towles Meadows, Frederick William Neve, and Margaret Proffe.

2 linear feet and 5 bound v.

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Mason, Wiley Roy, 1878-1967.

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Cleaveland, George Julius, 1896-1982.

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Meadow, Frances Towles.

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Neve, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1855-1948

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Episcopal clergyman, Archdeacon, of Albemarle and Greene counties, Va. From the description of Photographs of parishioners and churches in Albemarle and Greene counties [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816534 An Episcopal clergyman, Neve emigrated from England to Virginia in 1888. Actively involved in missionary work in the mountains, he was named Archdeacon of the Blue Ridge diocese in 1904. From the description of Papers : of ...

Mayo, George, 1876-1954.

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Episcopal Church. Diocese of Virginia. Archdeaconry of the Blue Ridge

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The Archdeaconry of the Blue Ridge of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Virginia evolved out of the missionary work to the people of the Blue Ridge Mountains begun as a local effort in 1888 by Rev. Frederick William Neve, rector of St. Paul's Church, Ivy (Albermarle County) and Emmanuel Church, Greenwood (Green County). In 1904, the Annual Council of the Diocese of Virginia appointed Neve to be Archdeacon in charge of a diocesan mission to the people of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Albemarle...

Proffe, Margaret Marian.

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...