W. B. D. and Annette B. Gray papers, 1835-1986.

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W. B. D. and Annette B. Gray papers, 1835-1986.

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The W.B.D. and Annette B. Gray papers include a reminiscence written by Mildred Kenney Rost about her association with the Grays and the years she spent living with Annette Gray after Dr. Gray's death. Among the correspondence is information about the founding of Yankton College in South Dakota. There is also biographical information and material regarding Congregational Mission work in Wyoming. The bulk of the collection, however, consists of photographs, primarily taken by the Grays, of churches and communities in Wyoming between 1900 and 1918. There is also a series of photographs, some taken by colleagues of W.B.D. Gray, which depict South Dakota and Wyoming during the 1890s. Also included are a manuscript by Mildred Kenney Rost and a group of African artifacts which reflect the story of a Gold Coast slave rescued and repatriated by William Bradford Dodge in Massachusetts in the 1830s.

7.5 cubic ft. (26 containers)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7682249

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Yankton College

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Rost, Mildred Kenney, 1896-1991

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William and Jennie Kenney and their children, including Mildred Kenney Rost, were prominent residents of Wheatland, Wyoming in the early 1900s. They owned a ranch and then moved to town in 1903. They owned a dry goods store and they started Wheatland's first newspaper. The family valued learning and they were civic minded and progressive. Mildred Kenny Rost was like a daughter to the W.B.D. Grays who were Congregational ministers. She graduated from Wheatland High School in 1914 and Oberlin Coll...

Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society

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Dodge, William Bradford.

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Gray, Annette B.

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Congregational Home Missionary Society

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Gray, W. B. D.

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William Bradford Dodge Gray was superintendent of Congregational Missions in Wyoming from 1900 to 1918. He was born in Milbourne, Illinois, in 1846. His grandfather, William Bradford Dodge, was the first secretary of the Antislavery Institute at Salem, Massachusetts. Gray homesteaded in South Dakota and helped to found Yankton College before moving to Wyoming. In 1902, W.B.D Gray married Annette Becher. She was ordained in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in December of 1900, and beca...