Box 1

"Recollections" (79 pp.) by Leonard Parker Bennett (AB 1916). Includes information about his family, life in Oberlin, c. 1896-1916 (pp. 2-18), Camp Pemigewassett (pp. 59-60), Ramsay R.R. (p. 65), death of Oberlinian Henry Jones (p. 69) and Bennett's life in the newspaper business in Miles City, Montana, and Maumee, Ohio.

"For MHB: A Remembrance" by Lois Baker Muehl [typescript; 64 pp; n.d., c. 1981?], received from Phil Tear, February 1, 1983. Story of Mary Ellen Hull Baker (AB 1910), wife of Arthur F. Baker (AB 1911) and mother of Robert A. Baker (AB 1939) and of Mrs. Muehl (AB 1941). Oberlin matters are dealt with on pp. 25-28 and 30-31. For Robert's death, see pp. 49-51.

Draft of "The Descendants of Otis Allen," an excerpt from "Descendants of Josiah Allen and Mary Reade," by Dan H. Allen. Also filed here is correspondence with the Archives.

150 typed pages, the “Ainsworth Family: Stories of Ainsworth Families of Rock Island County, Illinois, 1848-1996.” Compiled by Robert Edwin Ainsworth.

Genealogy of the Adams family, who settled in Wellington, Ohio in 1823. Includes three individuals who attended the Oberlin Collegiate Institute and Oberlin College: Helen Jennette Adams (married Simeon W. Windecker), 1859 lit.; Celestia Blinn Adams (married Arthur C. Ires), enrolled 1855-62; and Mary Ann Adams (married Charles Conkling), 1839 lit. Compiled by Arthur Stanley Ives.

File consists of "Descendents of Edward Harker Acton and Yeoli Stimson Acton" (enr. 1903-05, con; 1905-06, Academy), a 12 page typed copy of an Acton family genealogical list with index. It was prepared by Emily Acton Phillips in 2003.

Nathaniel Bradley Bartlett lived in Oberlin prior to the Civil War and was involved in the abolitionist cause. The documents here consist of a copy of the Bartlett genealogy and lineage chart; a copy of a letter of Nathaniel Bartlett, 3 October [1863?]; a copy of a survey from the Treasury Department completed by Bartlett; and correspondence of Gary Bartlett, 1989 (descendant).

An American Life: An Autobiography and Family History, by Robert Calvert, Jr. (Oberlin Class of 1947). Published by Garrett Park Press (Garrett Park, Maryland), 2004. Typescript, 244 pages.

Two copies (carbon and ribbon copies) of Samuel Austin Cravath’s (d. 1917) autobiography written in 1901. The first forty-five pages contain family history, travel to Oberlin from Conneaut, life as a student (AB 1858), and winter term teaching experiences.

Prepared by Mildred Locke Chapin (married to Almon J. Chapin) and containing copies of letters, published writings and photographs of family members plus text by Locke Chapin. Information clusters about Almon Chapin, his son William H. Chapin (Oberlin College professor of chemistry), and his son Almon J. Chapin.