Missionaries.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Augustus Ward Loomis papers
Collection
Identifier: 2474
Abstract
Collection includes letters to relatives in Cazenovia, New York, from Augustus Ward Loomis and his wife, Mary Ann, Presbyterian missionaries to Chekiang Province, China (1845-1849), Indian Territory (1852), and to the Chinese in San Francisco (1865-1867). Also included are papers (1803-1849) of Ward's father, Seba Loomis, among them deeds for lands in Coventry, Connecticut, and Cazenovia, New York; a survey of his farm in Road Township, Madison County, New York; debtors' writs from Tolland...
Dates:
1803-1897.
Cornell-in-China oral histories
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-321
Scope and content
Oral histories describing the experiences of Cornell University faculty members, former graduate students, and missionaries at the University of Nanking and elsewhere in China. Interviewees include J. Lossing Buck, John Reisner, Glenn W. Hedlund, and Stanley Warren on the development of an agricultural economics department at Nanking. Attached to Warren's interview is Buck's "Social and Economic Survey Losses in Rural Area in Vicinity of Shanghai Caused by Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1932." ...
Dates:
1962.
Daniel Poor letter
Collection — Manuscript box 35 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065247128]
Identifier: 1344
Scope and content
Letter to Mrs. Samuel Walker, Danvers, Massachusetts, describing Poor's experiences establishing a school for girls in Tillipally, Ceylon.
Dates:
1822.
Elizabeth Sager letter and clippings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 438
Scope and content
Letter to James Wightman from Elizabeth Sager Helm, the adopted daughter of Marcus Whitman. Also, clippings from the CHRONICLE EXPRESS (Penn Yan, New York) concerning Marcus and Narcissa Prentiss Whitman's journey into the Oregon Territory in the mid-1800s, Whitman's missionary work among the Indians, the Whitman massacre in 1847, D.A.R. plans for a Whitman memorial, and an article about pioneer Mary Jemison from THE ROCHESTER HERALD, n.d. Also included is a pamphlet "The Romance of a...
Dates:
1913, 1931.
First Baptist Church of Ithaca records
Collection — Box 29: [Barcode: 31924065317574]
Identifier: 2004
Abstract
Materials from the Board of Trustees, boards of deacons and deaconesses, and church meetings; lists of members, baptisms, and funerals; records of women's and youth organizations; Sunday School materials; letters from donors to the church building fund. Tape recordings of services; plans for remodelling the church; records of the Danby Baptist Church and the First Baptist Church of Christ of Ithaca.
Dates:
1811-2005.
Gould family papers
Collection
Identifier: 2033
Abstract
Diaries, 1799-1832, of Stephen Wanton Gould, concerned with meetings of the Society of Friends, the activities of his family members and friends as well as several public events; extracts from the records of monthly meetings, 1676-1707, held by Rhode Island Quakers; letters, 1862-1868, from John Stanton Gould to his daughter Mary (Gould) Baldwin, relating to the Goulds and the related families, Gould's early life, his interests, and other personal matters; journal, 1866-1869, showing Gould's...
Dates:
1799-[ca. 1869]
Harry H. Love papers
Collection
Identifier: 21-28-890
Abstract
Papers include correspondence, reports, photographs, plans, statistical data, notes, and scientific papers pertaining mainly to the work done in China and Thailand and at Cornell by Professor Love, a specialist in cereal breeding and the application of statistical methods to agricultural research; papers concerning China relate mainly to agricultural research, extension work, and reconstruction at the University of Nanking, the needs and problems of that university, particularly during the...
Dates:
1907-1964.
Hervey Crosby Hazen papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2591
Scope and content
Includes Hazen's diaries (18 volumes, 1854-1914) describing his religious views and experiences, family and household matters, national affairs, his emotional states, his ministry, and his voyages to India and missionary work in Aruppukkottai, Madras (1867-1869, 1884-1914), to which he was accompanied by his first wife, Ida Julia Chapin, and his second wife, Hattie A. Cook, and various events during the intervening years; correspondence (1853-1914) consisting mainly of letters (1853-1877)...
Dates:
1853-1914.
Hervey DeWitt Griswold papers
Collection
Identifier: 2124
Abstract
Dr. Griswold's "Autobiographical Notes, prepared for his descendants" (247 pp., 1938-40); two printed copies of Griswold's studies of Hinduism; five typed or printed items pertaining to his career as a missionary at Forman Christian College, Lahore, India (now Pakistan); pamphlet "Sketches of My Indian Childhood" by Frances Griswold Wooddell (116 pp., n.d.); genealogical pamphlet on the Griswold family of Dryden, New York; and typescript poems by Hervey De Witt Griswold (28 pp.).
Dates:
1897-1959.
Letters to Jeremiah Evarts concerning the Dwight mission for Cherokees in Arkansas
Collection — Huntington box 36 - folder 1
Identifier: 9202
Scope and content
Negative and positive photostats of one letter from Alfred Finney, August 12, 1824, and two letters from Cephas Washburn October 14 and 27, 1828, to Jeremiah Evarts of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The letters describe conditions at the Dwight mission and the surrounding area or Arkansas. Description of the local settlements and missions on the Arkansas River. Mention of the potential Cherokee removal. One of the Washburn letters encloses a drawing of the mission...
Dates:
1824; 1828.