James Stanley Durkee papers, 1831-1938.

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James Stanley Durkee papers, 1831-1938.

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Includes correspondence, diary, sermons and sermon outlines, pastoral prayers, mss. of novels by Durkee, marriage record book, record of sermons, land indentures of Durkee's father, Joseph James Durkee, Russian propaganda posters, genealogy of the Durkee family (1630-1898), and other papers. Newspapers represented include the Boston Herald.

8 linear ft.

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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SNAC Resource ID: 8113633

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

Durkee, J. Stanley (James Stanley), 1866-1951

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James Stanley Durkee was a Baptist and Congregationalist minister who served in Maine, Massachusetts, and New York. He was the last white president of Howard University (1918-1926) and presided over Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New York, from 1927-1941. From the description of James Stanley Durkee sermons, 1897-1947. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 700044430 Congregational clergyman and president of Howard University in Wash...

Durkee family.

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