Rollin D.H. Allen incoming correspondence, 1835-1890.

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Rollin D.H. Allen incoming correspondence, 1835-1890.

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Primarily incoming correspondence to Rollin D.H. Allen, teacher, bookkeeper and businessman of Vermont and later Plymouth, Connecticut. He received a number of letters from his cousin Asa Hemenway, a minister who served as a missionary in Thailand. Asa's brother Francis was also a minister and wrote to Rollin from Vermont and later from Illinois. Allen received letters from former classmates at Andover Theological Seminary, namely Jesse Guernsey and Charles Richards. He also received family news from cousins Joan and Henry Allen, and his brother Myron who remained in their home town of Middlebury, Vermont. Letters from Leonard Hemenway Wheeler, clergyman, missionary and inventor of Wisconsin discussed religious topics and how to conduct a school.

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Guernsey, Jesse.

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Allen, Myron W., b. 1825.

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Wheeler, Leonard Hemenway, 1811-1872.

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Hemenway, Asa, 1810-1892

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Hemenway, Francis, b. 1819.

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Allen, Rollin D.H., 1821-1893.

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Rollin D.H. Allen was born in Middlebury, Vermont. He taught school in the old academy in Cromwell, then known as Upper Middletown, and studied theology in Andover, Massachusetts, and New Haven, Connecticut. He entered the ministry but his health prevented him from staying in the profession. He became a teacher in New Hampshire and New York. In 1850 Allen moved to Terryville, Connecticut, where he became bookeeper and secretary in the offices of James Terry & Co. He was also an incorporator ...

Andover Theological Seminary

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