Turner family papers, 1799-1891.

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Turner family papers, 1799-1891.

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Chiefly letters written by members of the related Turner, Baker, and Wheeler families, describing their activities as they moved southward and westward from Massachusetts and New York. Includes letters from Otis and Oliver Baker, theology students at Yale University; Baker and Turner family letters from Lockport and Watertown, New York; letters from Susie Turner, student at Mount Holyoke College (Class of 1853) and teacher at Rockford Seminary; letters from Asa Turner, travelling salesman in the South and Midwest; correspondence between Avery Turner, Cornell University Class of 1873, and his friends at Quincy College and Kansas City Medical College, and later letters relating his work as an engineer for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. Among the Wheeler papers are letters between relatives at an academy in New Bradford, Mass, and at Amherst College; letters from Marshall Wheeler relate to his activities as a clerk in Shelbyville, Kentucky, as a farm owner in Carthage, Ill., as the proprietor of a merchandising business at Quincy, Ill., and to his life as a merchant, plantation and slave owner, and stock and hog producer at Sabine and Cold Springs, Texas.

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Amherst College

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Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams survived, Amherst was formed and diverged into its own institution....

Turner, Avery.

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Turner, Asa.

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Rockford Seminary.

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Yale university. Divinity school

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For more than a century, theological instruction was conducted by Yale's president or by the Professor of Divinity, a position established by Thomas Clap in 1746. During these years, however, Yale did not have a formally established Divinity School. The college began to feel the lack of a separately established department in the beginning of the nineteenth century as more New England colleges--such as Williams, Middlebury, Union, and Hamilton--began to draw students to their seminar...

Quincy College

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Mount Holyoke College. Class of 1853.

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Baker, Oliver

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Photographer (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Oliver Baker papers, 1953-1963. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122610 ...

Wheeler family.

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Baker, Otis.

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Wheeler, Marshall R.

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Baker family.

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Turner family.

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Cornell University. Class of 1950.

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Cornell University Class of 1878. From the description of Parody commencement program, 1878. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937832 ...

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Co.

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Kansas City Medical College (1881-1905)

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Turner, Susie.

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