Temperance--History--Sources

The Fletcher papers reflect Robert S. Fletcher's interest in the history of Oberlin College, an institution located in the Connecticut Western Reserve, and his interest in the history of the trans-Mississippi West.

The papers of William Goodell provide partial documentation of Goodell's early business activities (1813-21) and of his mature writings on temperance and religion (1842-74). His numerous anti-slavery publications are not present in this collection. There is also some material here relating to the Goodell and Frost families and to Rhoda Lavinia Goodell, one of William Goodell's daughters.