Berea (Ky.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas A. Edwards Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.17
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of papers, photographs, correspondence, personnal items, clippings, writings, and a leather bound photograph album of Thomas A. Edwards, Dean of the Berea College Foundation School and faculty member for twenty-two years (1904 - 1926).
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1925-1935
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-
Wilderness Road Drama Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.04
Abstract
Wilderness Road, an outdoor symphonic drama, was commissioned by Berea College to help commemorate the school’s centennial celebration in the summer of 1955. The drama was written by Pulitzer prize-winning author, Paul Green, who also authored The Common Glory, The Lost Colony, and The Stephen Foster Story. Green received the Freedom Foundation’s George...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1942-1980
William B. Stewart Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.02
Abstract
Stewart, a native of Scotland, was educated there, in Canada, and in the United States. He was ordaineda Baptist minister in Toronto, Canada in 1859. During his career he served as president of three othereducational institutions and as a professor of classical languages. He was named president of BereaCollege in 1890 and his views reflected Fee's perspective in that Berea offered a Christian education.Stewart’s presidency occurred during a period in the College's history marked by adverse...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1879 - 1974; Other: Majority of material found in 1890-1892
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860 - 1955; Other: Majority of material found in 1860-1894
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...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1888 - 1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1888-1904
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
YMCA and YWCA Records
Collection
Identifier: RG 07-7.07
Abstract
Records of the Berea College and Berea city associated YMCA and YWCA.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1968