Revivals.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Rogers Crandall papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2628
Scope and content
Civil War letters by Crandall of the 23rd New York Volunteers in Virginia to cousins in Alfred, New York, describe the battles of Fredericksburg and Rappahannock Station, hostility of Southern women, black children in camp, a black camp meeting, the Virginia countryside and the laziness of its inhabitants; he also comments on the draft, the performance of McClellan and Burnside, praises Lincoln, and criticizes the abolitionists. Also included is a pamphlet commemorating the 30th reunion of...
Dates:
1861-1912,-1861-1863 (bulk)
Elias Bowen papers
Collection — Microfilm reel 1 (positive): [Barcode: 31924094428293]
Identifier: 2111
Abstract
Letters to Bowen during his pastorates at Utica, Ithaca, Cazenovia, Locke, and Moravia, New York, written by clergymen and others concerning revivals at Ithaca and elsewhere, work of the Cazenovia Seminary and Wesleyan University, and Methodism in Central New York.
Dates:
1820-1852.
Kaercher and Packer family papers
Collection
Identifier: 347
Abstract
Correspondence and other papers relating the life of George Kaercher, who was a divinity student at Burr Seminary in Manchester, Vermont and Western Reserve College in Ohio, and later a minister in Ohio. Also includes papers of the Packer family.
Dates:
1789-1938.
Rudd family papers
Collection
Identifier: 1636
Abstract
Correspondence, notes and notebooks, printed material, and miscellany concerning the family affairs and genealogy of the Rudd, Porter, DeForest, and other related families and including information on the history of Norwich, Connecticut, where the family originated. Of particular interest are a copy of a letter (August 26, 1777) from Joseph Rudd, describing the battle at Bennington, Vermont; two letters (1827) about a religious revival in Huntington, Connecticut; and B. Rudd's book of...
Dates:
1777 - 1952; Majority of material found within 1804 - 1952
Shelton family papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064923802]
Identifier: 808
Scope and content
Collection consists largely of letters between members of the interrelated Tappan, Brewster, Tomlinson, and Shelton families, and emphasizes religious, missionary, and educational experiences. Included are a letter (1821) from a female teacher at the Brainard Cherokee Mission School; letters (1827) from Anne Tappan at Catharine Beecher's School in Hartford, Connecticut; letters (1834) from Lucy Tappan, a teacher at a religious academy in Detroit, concerning local conditions, Miss Beecher,...
Dates:
1783-1934.