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Religion.

 Subject
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Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:

Hanford family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064926052]
Identifier: 1264
Scope and content

Family correspondence of Ira McCall and his daughter Polly McCall Hanford chiefly about family news and religious views. Also a biography of Martha Hanford Edwards by Richard Henry Edwards and Mary Edwards Twitchell.

Dates: 1840-1847.

Henry Cooley diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937190]
Identifier: 1703
Scope and content

Diaries written by Henry Cooley of Eagle, Wyoming County, New York, an itinerant farm hand, wood chopper, and small scale money lender. Mentioned are a trip to Muscoda, Wisconsin, town and camp meetings, the Geneseo fair, the election of 1876, and work on the State Line Railroad, in addition to accounts of weather, chores performed, recreational activities, and other subjects.

Dates: 1867-1877.

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.

Hugh Anderson Moran papers

 Collection
Identifier: 39-2-972
Abstract

Papers relating to Moran's career as a Presbyterian clergyman in Ithaca, N.Y. and his involvement in various local, national, and international organizations.

Dates: 1919-1947.

Inspirational messages

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3976
Scope and content

Clippings of religious messages and other sayings. Also, typed mimeographed volume "Thoughts to Ponder" by Colbert.

Dates: 1975-1978.

Jacob Gould Schurman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3-4-6
Abstract The Schurman papers consist of correspondence, addresses, photographs, testimonials, diplomas, certificates, newspaper clippings, printed material, and records of the New York Constitutional Convention (1915). The material listed covers Schurman's career as a teacher, college president, and diplomat; the majority of the papers involve his role in national and foreign affairs. His views on American imperialism are reflected in letters to President McKinley, David Starr Jordan, David J. Hill,...
Dates: 1867-1942, [1986].

Jared Treman Newman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2157
Abstract

Jared Treman Newman was an Ithaca, New York attorney, 1893-1896, and mayor, 1907-1908; Cornell University Trustee, 1895-1903 and 1907-1933; and a bank official.

Dates: 1803-1953,-1803-1937 (bulk)

Leander Crawford Purdy and Louisa (Canfield) Purdy, collectors, family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2523
Abstract

Legal and financial documents, recipe books, children's school exercise books and diary of Jesse W. Canfield as well as items relating to Leander, and Louisa (Canfield) Purdy. Also, microfilmed copies research materials pertaining mainly to the Canfield, Crawford, and Purdy families, but also to the related Barclays, Ketchams, and Littles.

Dates: 1738-1925.

Leo Bernard Skeffington papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3229
Scope and content Includes three volumes (pamphlets) entitled "Footprints," 1970, 1971; notebooks of letters and clippings concerning the Gannett Farms; first issue of USA TODAY, Gannett Co.'s national daily newspaper, September 15, 1982; and tape recordings of Skeffington's reminiscences of his career with Gannett newspapers and of Frank Gannett, his experiences with Mormons, the New York State (Geneva) Agricultural Experiment Station, Governor Reubin Askew and water resources in Florida, American water...
Dates: 1945-1983.

Letter to Brother Bebe

 Collection — Manuscript box 58 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065252946]
Identifier: 3405
Scope and content

Draft and letter (unsigned) to Brother Bebe concerning religion, in which the author approves of the name Old School Baptist for those who adhere to Biblical doctrine.

Dates: 1834.