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Ernest B. Chamberlain Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-039
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1904-1969; Other: Date acquired: 06/23/1969
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Robert E. Brown Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-040
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...
Dates:
1922-1938, undated; Other: Date acquired: 10/26/1966
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
James W. Holton Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-041
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, 1890-91;...
Dates:
1860s-1913, undated; Other: Date acquired: 03/27/1969
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Chauncey N. Pond Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-042
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1852 - 1920; Other: Date acquired: 10/30/1969
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Elliott F. Grabill Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-043
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...
Dates:
1859 - 1910; Majority of material found in 1862-1868; Other: Date acquired: 02/18/1970
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
John Williams Bradshaw Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-044
Scope and Contents
This collection primarily consists of the sermons delivered by John Williams Bradshaw during his pastorate at First Congregational Church in Oberlin (1900-1912, n.d.). Sermon titles include “The efficacy of prayer”, “The ethics of business”, “Evolutionary hypothesis and the idea of God”, and “Changes of 75 years in conceptionof religious life” (delivered in conjunction with Oberlin’s 75th anniversary). The balance of this collection is made up by a biographical file, correspondence (1897),...
Dates:
1889-1921, undated; Other: Date acquired: 05/25/1970
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Philo P. Safford Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-045
Scope and Contents
The Philo P. Safford Family Papers consist mainly of letters by Philo Perry Safford (1863-1914, AB 1885) to his father John Safford (1831-1891, AB 1859, Seminary 1862) and mother Cornelia Melissa Walker Safford (1831-1914 attended 1853-59), 1884-87; of letters written by his parents to Philo, 1881-87; and of other letters received by Philo or his parents, 1872-88.Philo’s letters, 1884-85, are from Oberlin and contain much information about oratory, debate, and his support for...
Dates:
1872-1888, undated; Other: Date acquired: 06/04/1970
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Herbert G. May Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-046
Scope and Contents
The papers of Herbert G. May consist of instructional files, correspondence, writings, committee files, files relating to the Bible, files relating to the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology, sermons and chapel talks, and photographs. These papers document May’s distinguished career as teacher and theologian, Biblical translator, cartographer, and linguist. The biographical materials and the extensive correspondence series (professional and personal) provide many examples of the respect and...
Dates:
1923, 1926-1978, undated; Other: Date acquired: 06/01/1970
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Fred Eugene Leonard Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-047
Scope and Contents
Consisting of both the personal and professional papers generated and gathered in the course of his life, the Fred Eugene collection documents the life of a man raised in the American West with a strong appreciation for natural history and biology. He subsequently traded in these interests for a career in physical education. The papers reflect his education in the West, at Oberlin College, and at The College of Physicians and Surgeons. Leonard used his education, particularly his medical...
Dates:
1821-1922; Majority of material found in 1893-1920; Other: Date acquired: 07/13/1970
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives
Daniel Chapin Kinsey Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 30-048
Abstract
The personal papers of Daniel Chapin Kinsey, 1922-70, primarily document the teaching and coaching career of a member of the Department of Physical Education for Men at Oberlin College. Indirectly, the historical materials also provide information about an academic department that was opposed to the growing trend of professionalism in collegiate athletics and continued to support the belief that athletics were a means of accomplishing the aims of education in general. There is modest...
Dates:
1922-1970, undated; Other: Date acquired: 07/13/1970
Found in:
Oberlin College Archives