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Berea College

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Berea College 1973 Appalachian Oral History Project Collection (January Short Term)

 Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.03
Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of audio recorded interviews conducted by Berea College students as part of a January 1973 short term History 190 course taught by Dr. Richard Drake. Listen To Interviews Interview topics include: moonshining in Perry County (KY), early medical practices and services in Clay County...
Dates: Other: 1973

Perley F. Ayer Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0022 SAA 021
Abstract Perley F. Ayer, a native of New Hampshire, was educated at the University of New Hampshire (B.S.1922) and Cornell University (M.S. 1947).  Prior to coming to Berea in 1947, he had been employed as an extension agent in New Hampshire and as an instructor at Pleasant Hill Academy in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee.  He worked at Berea College as supervisor of an agricultural training program in the Foundation School, as a field representative for the Admissions office, and as an instructor in...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1952-1968

William J. Hutchins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.04
Abstract Hutchins, born in 1850 and native of Brooklyn, New York, attended Oberlin College, Yale University, and Oberlin Theological Seminary. In 1896 he graduated from Union Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister, receiving his first pastorate at Bedford Church in Brooklyn.  Later that same year,Hutchins married Anna Laura Murch of Cleveland (whom he had met at Oberlin). In 1907, Hutchins was appointed professor of homiletics in the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology. On...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1850 - 1977; Other: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1958

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  • Subject: Appalachian Region -- Social conditions -- History. X

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Appalachian Region. 2
Berea (Ky.) 2
Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 2
African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 1
Appalachia -- Description and travel. 1