Box 2

Scope and Contents “Family Stories for My Younger Relatives” by William Goodell Frost (1854-1938) (AB 1876, BD, MA 1879), written at Brighton, England, March 1910. Photocopy of a typescript including reminiscences about Frost’s time at Oberlin as a student (1873-1879) and professor of Greek (1879-1892). Also contains accounts of Frost’s experiences as President of Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, 1892-1910. Includes an appendix “Religion in England in the Time of Edmund Frost.” (Edmund Frost sailed to America...

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"The Descendants of John Peter Gladieux" (133 pp., 1974) and "The 14th Indiana Light Artillery Battery" (39 pp., 1978) by Rolland J. Gladieux (AB 1931). [Family history, Civil War information and genealogy, printed.] Also his "Battery H 1st Ohio Light Artillery in Virginia, 1864-65" (1982).

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"Story of an Oberlin Family" by H. Edmund Stiles (AB 1841). Account (photocopy) of the Johnson family, descendants of Phineas Johnson, who settled in present-day Elyria in 1819. Includes genealogical tables.

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“The Descendents of Joel Willis Hopkins” compiled by the Oberlin College Development Office, 2002. Includes names of Oberlin College graduates (Hopkins, Whitaker, Bent, and McCord) and a genealogical chart. There are fifty-one Oberlin graduates and former students included in this family tree.

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Genealogy of the Jarrett Ingraham family compiled by Larry Heald. Includes the Ingraham, Heald, and Penfield families. Typescript, 20 pages, with endnotes.

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"Notes on the Life of John Monteith, 1788-1868," copy of a paper written at Princeton Theological Seminary by W. H. Cowley about this Elyria resident and follower of C. G. Finney. [Acc. 278]. Also included is a copy of a typescript manuscript (11pages) titled "A History of John Monteith and Monteith Hall," by Betty L. Bergman, 1973.

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A published history of the family of John Long. Long was enrolled in 1857-1858 in the preparatory department, as was his wife, Rachel Robinson (1856-1858) and three of the Long brothers.

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A published history entitled, Robert McEwen: Scottish Exile to American 1685, and His Descendants in the Line of His Grandson Gershom McEwen, Junior, of Winchester, Connecticut, compiled by Patrician Ann Hoagland McEwen. George Faber McEwen's half-sister, Samantha Joslin, attended Oberlin College (1844-1846 lit.), as did her nieces, Helen and Cora Joslin.

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"Genealogy of Peter Pindar Pease of Oberlin, Ohio" by Harriet A. Southall (married George Southall). Taken from A Genealogical and Historical Record of the Descendants of John Pease, Sen., by David and A.S. Pease (Springfield, Mass.: S. Bowles, 1869).

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"The Family of Baldwin and Diantha Olds" (109 pp.) by C. Burnell Olds (BD Oberlin 1911); includes photographs.