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Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 5 contains genealogy and family information on Mahan. The bulk of the material was compiled by Kenneth Roose, former Professor of Economics, who was a descendant of Mahan. Two cards from 1889 and 1894 announce the death of Mahan and his second wife, respectively. A 1922 letter accompanied the transfer of Mahan's scale (housed in the Objects Collection, RG 35). Also included are photocopies of letters, articles, family histories, genealogical charts, and Revolutionary War service...

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The non-original correspondence includes a photocopy of an 1845 letter written to Hamilton Hill (Original is in the Hamilton College Archives. The letter was reportedly sent by President Henry Churchill King to someone who requested a Mahan autograph). The remaining non-original material consists of printed correspondence from Letters of James Gillespie Birney, 1831-1857, Volume 1, edited by Dwight L. Dumond (New York, 1938).

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 5 contains genealogy and family information on Mahan. The bulk of the material was compiled by Kenneth Roose, former Professor of Economics, who was a descendant of Mahan. Two cards from 1889 and 1894 announce the death of Mahan and his second wife, respectively. A 1922 letter accompanied the transfer of Mahan's scale (housed in the Objects Collection, RG 35). Also included are photocopies of letters, articles, family histories, genealogical charts, and Revolutionary War service...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 5 contains genealogy and family information on Mahan. The bulk of the material was compiled by Kenneth Roose, former Professor of Economics, who was a descendant of Mahan. Two cards from 1889 and 1894 announce the death of Mahan and his second wife, respectively. A 1922 letter accompanied the transfer of Mahan's scale (housed in the Objects Collection, RG 35). Also included are photocopies of letters, articles, family histories, genealogical charts, and Revolutionary War service...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 5 contains genealogy and family information on Mahan. The bulk of the material was compiled by Kenneth Roose, former Professor of Economics, who was a descendant of Mahan. Two cards from 1889 and 1894 announce the death of Mahan and his second wife, respectively. A 1922 letter accompanied the transfer of Mahan's scale (housed in the Objects Collection, RG 35). Also included are photocopies of letters, articles, family histories, genealogical charts, and Revolutionary War service...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 5 contains genealogy and family information on Mahan. The bulk of the material was compiled by Kenneth Roose, former Professor of Economics, who was a descendant of Mahan. Two cards from 1889 and 1894 announce the death of Mahan and his second wife, respectively. A 1922 letter accompanied the transfer of Mahan's scale (housed in the Objects Collection, RG 35). Also included are photocopies of letters, articles, family histories, genealogical charts, and Revolutionary War service...

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The original correspondence consists of two letters written by Asa Mahan in 1835 (to Nathan P. Fletcher) and 1884 (to "My Dear Daughter").

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This series contains documents relating to Mahan's disagreements with the Oberlin faculty and Board of Trustees. Includes the ten-point indictment of Mahan drawn up by the faculty in 1850, and extracts from an appeal presented to the Board of Trustees by Mahan on August 23, 1854. This series also includes a Holy Bible (1874), originally presented to Mrs. A.B. Mumford by Asa Mahan in 1886.

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Photocopies of the serial Divine Light, which Mahan frequently wrote articles for.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries contains original writings by Asa Mahan, including Principles of Christian Union, and Church Fellowship (1836), Mahan's address before the National Educational Convention at Cleveland on August 20, 1851 on the "Character and Comparative Merits of the Old and New System of Liberal Education," Introduction to the Critical History of Philosophy (1883), Modern Mysteries Explained...