Berea College
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
A.A. Burleigh Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.06
Scope and Contents
These are the papers of A.A. Burleigh, one of the first African Americans to attend and graduate from Berea College. Materials include biographical information, correspondence, pension applications, medical and death records, and additional print material.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1867-1938
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