Gravis, Peter W. Papers, 1828-1892, 1968

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Gravis, Peter W. Papers, 1828-1892, 1968

Reverend Peter W. Gravis was a Methodist clergyman, missionary to Texas in the mid-1800s, and the author of Twenty-Five Years on the Outside Row of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, an autobiography included in the papers.

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