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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...
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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.
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1757-1959
William Goodell Frost Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.03
Abstract
Frost, a native of LeRoy, New York, was an 1876 graduate of Oberlin College and taught Greek at him alma materfrom 1876 through 1892. Having refused the presidency of Berea College in 1889, Frost reconsidered theappointment after the resignation of William B. Stewart. Frost was inaugurated in 1892 and served as presidentuntil 1920. Frost is credited with being chiefly responsible for the significant growth of Berea College during thisperiod. His term saw enrollment rise from 350 in 1912 to...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860 - 1955; Other: Majority of material found in 1860-1894
William Gordon Ross Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.40
Abstract
William Ross Gordon began teaching at Berea in 1931 as a teacher in the Foundation-Junior High School. In 1932 he was promoted to the college department where he spent the next 36 years teaching philosophy and religion. Born in 1900 in South Carolina, Ross served in the United States Army from 1918 until 1922. He later secured his bachelor's degree from Drury College and in 1930 received his Bachelor of Divinity from the Union Seminary in New York. His Ph.D. in philosophy was granted by...
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Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1990
William H. Robe Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.61
Abstract
William H. Robe was an ordained Baptist minister (1888) who later taught woodworking at Berea College from 1893 until 1898. Robe was married to Mary R. Robe and they had a daughter, Mary Hannah Robe Staats. Robe lived in Berea for much of his life and owned land, although he was not a native Berean. He was a Civil War veteran and Commander of the Captain James West Post, No. 171, Dept. of KY, for the Grand Army of the Republic, an association of men who served as Union soldiers during the...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1888 - 1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1888-1904
William H. Tallmadge Baptist Hymnody Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0035 SAA 033
Abstract
Tallmadge earned degrees in Music at Oberlin College (Ohio), in 1940 (B.M.) and 1946 (M.M.). From 1949-1976 he was on the faculty of State University College in Buffalo, New York where his research and teaching concentrated on both Anglo and African American popular musical genres. He continued this non-classical focus at Berea (1976-1984) with course work on the history of Jazz and its relation to newer musical trends such as Rock, Soul, and Disco. Articles published as a result of his...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1980
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...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1850 - 1977; Other: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1958
William J. Schafer Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.41
Abstract
William J. (Bill) Schafer was a Professor of English from 1964 to 2002 at Berea College, where he became the Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities. Schafer’s publications included academic articles on American literature, jazz reviews, fiction, personal essays, a co-edited online periodical (Journal of Provincial Thought) and four books on various forms of popular music (rock, ragtime, New Orleans marching bands, and the music of Jelly Roll Morton)....
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Other: Date acquired: 05/07/2001
William R. Hutcherson Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.27
Abstract
William Robert Hutcherson, born in Glassgow, Kentucky, on December 20, 1898, received his A.B. (1922) and A.M. (1924) from the University of Kentucky. Hutcherson continued with his graduate work during the summers at Chicago (1925-1927, 1929) while on the faculty at Berea College. Hutcherson first served as head of the department of the junior high school at Berea from 1924 to 1926. From 1926 to 1928, Hutcherson served as associate professor of physics, astronomy and mathematics and from...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1936-1950
William R. Paul Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.21
Abstract
William R. Paul was both a Berea Academy (1931) and Berea College (1935) graduate.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1935