RG 30. Personal Papers

Scope and Contents The papers of Newell L. Sims document his days as a college student, and his career as a teacher and author in the fields of Sociology and Political Science. A small amount of material in one notebook, 1902-1905, contains information concerning his service as a minister. Also included is a modest amount of biographical information and correspondence. The bulk of the collection includes notebooks relating to class notes of courses taken by Sims, schedules and appointments, notes...

Abstract The papers of Florence Mary Fitch relate to Fitch's student years in Oberlin, Munich, and Berlin (1892-97; 1900-03) and her subsequent career at Oberlin College as a biblical scholar and writer of children's books. They also contain materials relating to three preceding generations of the Fitch family (1807-1936). Virtually no record exists in these papers of Florence Fitch's tenure as Dean of Women at Oberlin (1904-20). The records of the Office of the Dean of Students (Record Group 12)...

Abstract The Kemper Fullerton (1902-1940) Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, and writings documenting Fullerton's career as a teacher and scholar. The bulk of the collection, the lecture notes and writings, dates from his tenure (1904-34) as Finney Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at the Oberlin College Graduate School of Theology. With the exception of portions of the correspondence and seven diaries (1905-08, 1915, 1935, 1937), there is little material...

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Consists primarily of handwritten sermons arranged in alphabetical order by sermon title.  The author annotated the sermons with the places and dates of their delivery.  The date range is 1882-1902, representing the entire working life of W. A. Hobbs as a minister.  Box 4 contains a journal of a trip to the Holy Land in 1892-93, which includes descriptions of sea travel, places in Italy (Genoa, Rome, Naples), Greece, Egypt, the Holy Land and Turkey.

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The papers of Ernest B. Chamberlain consist of files of the Oberlin Class of 1904 as well as materials related to his work as an author and editor.

Scope and Contents The papers of Robert E. Brown document his career as a minister, member of the Oberlin College Board of Trustees, and as a Professor of Practical Theology and Human Relations at the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology. The collection consists of very little biographical material. The collected works include notebooks containing lecture notes for “Preacher’s Philosophy,” as well as “Hymnology,” courses taught by Brown while a professor at the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology from...

Scope and Contents The papers of James Wilber Holton consist primarily of letters between Holton and his mother, and letters written by Holton to his wife Alice H. (Renik) Holton. The contents of the letters include Oberlin events, financial concerns,  temperance activities, music, and Holton's travels in the midwest. A small amount of letters between Mrs. M.L. Shumway and Mrs. R. B. Holton are also included. Series 2 contains a journal of Mrs. R. B. Holton (minutes of the Oberlin Beneficial Society,...

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The papers of the Rev. Chauncey Northrop Pond reveal Pond's concern to document the lives of missionaries in China and other countries by collecting missionary correspondence and related historical materials. Pond's professional files offer a limited view of his sixty-year career as a Congregational minister. There is virtually no information on his personal life in this collection.

Scope and Contents The papers of Elliott F. Grabill consist mainly of letters sent by Grabill (December, 1863-1865) to Anna S. Jenney, whom he would marry in March of 1865. Grabill expressed himself well on such matters as schools for contraband, relations with other officers, regard for black troops, troop dispositions including their transport by water, the siege of Petersburg, descriptions of battle, the wounding of Colonel Giles W. Shurtleff, exchange of papers with a Confederate soldier, a tour of four...

Scope and Contents The papers of Sydney Nettleton Fisher document the Fisher family and his days as a student at Oberlin College. The collection is rich in documentation about the Fisher family, including an autobiography of Sydney N. Fisher and biographies of Robert Dean Fisher and Fisher's parents, Addison Washburn Fisher and Pearl Nettleton Fisher. The correspondence series contains letters between Sydney Fisher and family, including accounts of his teaching appointment at Robert College in Istanbul,...