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American Missionary Association.

 Organization

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

American Missionary Association

 Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.09
Scope and Contents

Four records showing the connection between Berea College and the American Missionary Association including data regarding Berea College, information on John G. Fee's commission by the Association, and a letter (1867) of J.A.R. Rogers posturing for Berea to be the association's choice for their Normal School in Kentucky.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1867, 1896

Ballantine, W. G. Educational Work in the South; An Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association. New York: American Missionary Association, 1895

 File — Box 2: Series Series 3; Series Series 4, Folder: 8
Identifier: Series 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

The works in this series include printed lectures, scientific journals, educational literature, and information about educational methods, institutions, and organizations. A sub-theme for the series is education in Kentucky. The series is arranged by publication date, then by author and title. Within the same year, works without authors precede works with authors. All folders but two contain nineteenth-century publications.

Dates: 1895

E. H. Fairchild Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.01
Abstract Born in Stockbridge, MA, 29 November 1815, Edward Henry Fairchild grew up in Brownhelm, Ohio,where his parents, Grandison and Nancy Fairchild, had a farm. He and his brother James were half of the first entering class at Oberlin College; he graduated in 1838. At age 21, after lecturing against slavery in Ohio as one of the "Seventy" sent out by Theodore Weld, he was commissioned by the American Anti-slavery Society for a three-month tour of Pennsylvania. At 22 he began teaching a large...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860-1973

Richard Bryant Drake Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.15
Abstract

Richard Bryant Drake came to Berea College in 1957 after receiving his master’s degree from the University of Chicago and his doctoral degree from Emory University. During his tenure at Berea, Drake served as a professor of history and as the chairperson of the History and Political Science Department.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1948-2001; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1995; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/2001

Union Church Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0176 HC 01
Abstract The Church of Christ, Union, of Berea Kentucky (Union Church) collection consists of materials pertaining to the historical, financial, and celebratory records of the institution.  It also includes information about the church’s order for worship, including music and the arts as a part of the church’s history. There are minutes, programs, and brochures about the governance of the church and in celebration of its two major anniversaries: the Centennial in 1953 and the Sesquicentennial in...
Dates: Other: 1865-

William Goodell Family Papers, Part 1

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0179 HC 04
Abstract William Goodell, a native of New York, was a prominent 19th century abolitionist and temperance reformer.  He either edited or published such reform-minded publications as the Investigator and General Intelligencer, Friend of Man, Christian Investigator, and Principia.  Although never ordained, he founded a church in Honeoye, New York, in 1842, based on the principles of...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1780-1892

William Goodell Family Papers, Part 2

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0179 HC 04B
Scope and Contents

The William Goodell Family Papers (Part 2) consist of correspondence of numerous Goodell family members (both between each other and family friends and associates); writings, documents, and photographs of Goodell family members; documents, writings and printed materials of abolitionists; and correspondence, papers, and materials specific to members of the family of William Goodell Frost.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1757-1959

Additional filters:

Type
Collection 6
Archival Object 1
 
Subject
Abolitionists 3
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. 3
Abolitionists -- Correspondence 2
Berea (Ky.) 2
Goodell, Clarissa Cady. 2