Papers of Francis McFarland [manuscript] 1815-1871.

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Papers of Francis McFarland [manuscript] 1815-1871.

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Collection contains 23 diaries and account books and 25 manuscripts, 1821-1864. With these are an analytical outline by W. Edwin Hemphill and two brief biographies of McFarland. The collection contains student writings; notebooks from lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary; diaries of missionary trips into "the pines" of Southeasern N.J. and the midwest, including contacts with the Cherokee Indians; attendance at General Assemblies; expense accounts; politics in Washington, D.C. (1832); Philadelphia; meteorological observations; his church and life in Augusta County, Va., the Civil War including the splitting of the Presbyterian Church, deaths of his sons, and religion in the Confederate camps.

2 reels : microfilm; 35mm.

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Princeton theological seminary

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MacFarland, Francis, 1788-1871.

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McFarland, Francis, 1788-1871

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Presbyterian Minister of Augusta County, Va. From the description of Papers of Francis McFarland [manuscript] 1815-1871. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647970613 Francis McFarland was pastor of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Augusta County, Virginia, 1823-1835 and 1841-1871, and corresponding secretary of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education, 1835-1841. In 1856, McFarland was elected General Assembly Moderator of the...

Hemphill, William Edwin, 1912-

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Editor of the "Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society." From the description of Papers of William Edwin Hemphill [manuscript], 1836-1949 (bulk 1946-949). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806840 ...

Presbyterian Church (Augusta County, Va.)

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