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Paschal Carter Papers
Professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and various other subjects,
from 1832 to 1854, at the institution which became Denison University.
The collection includes:
- Biographical material
- Correspondence, especially letters from his wife written during six lengthy
visits to her parents in Massachusetts between 1833 and 1854. These letters
incidentally illustrate changes in modes and speed of travel between Ohio and the
East Coast during that time. ca. 150 pages. (Also transcribed)
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William Ashmore Papers
B.A. Granville College (later renamed Denison University) 1845.
Western Baptist Theological Institution, 1848.
Baptist missionary in China and Siam 1849-1902.
Martha Sanderson Ashmore. First wife of William Ashmore.
The collection includes:
- Biographical material, letters, articles
- Sea Journal, "Voyage of the Sailing Ship Channing, New York to Hong
Kong, August 17, 1850 to January 4, 1851." 33 pages. (Also transcribed)
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Parker-Currier Letters
Fannie Parker Currier, B.A. Y.L.I. 1866.
- The first woman to attend classes at Denison, an all male school at that time.
- Lengthy excerpts of letters written to her parents and family members,
1864 - 1866 and 1874. 47 pages. A vivid description of her life and studies.
Charles M. Parker, B.A. 1871
- Letters and excerpts of letters written to his family, 1866 - 1871.
34 pages. Describes the college and his life as a student.
Charles W. Currier, B. A. 1874
- Lengthy excerpts of letters written to his parents and family, 1870
- 1874. 15 pages. Describes Denison and Granville at that time.
Note: The Parker-Currier letters were selected and transcribed by the daughter of
Fannie and Charles Currier, niece of Charles Parker, in 1945.
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Avery Papers
William Henry Harrison Avery
B.A. 1867. D.D. Rochester Theological Seminary.
The collection includes:
- Biographical material
- 39 letters written to his family while in the Union army during the Civil War;
transcribed and annotated by his great grandson. Avery enlisted with the "Granville
Company" (Company D, 113th OVI), served in Tennessee and later commanded a "Negro"
regiment.
Emeretta Benight Wait Avery, B.A. Y.L.I. 1867;
Wife of W.H.H. Avery.
Collection includes: "Some Recollections of the Avery Family." 107 pages. Written in
1923. (Also transcribed)
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William Arnold Stevens Papers
B.A. Denison 1862
Professor of Greek Language and Literature 1868 -1877.
Later, Professor at Rochester Theological Seminary.
The collection includes:
- Biographical material
- Course notes
- Correspondence, including a group of letters written to his family while he was
studying in Germany 1867 - 1868.
- (Also transcribed) "A Tour of the Holy Land, 1883." Twenty-seven
notebooks with diaries and notes of that trip. He was a keen observer of
flora, fauna and persons.
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Warren King Moorehead Papers
Student at Denison 1884-1886.
Prominent anthropologist and author.
The collection includes:
- Biographical material
- Articles
- An unpublished novel (ca. 1890) which is set in Granville, and which uses many
actual Granville names. 312 pages.
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Clarence Luther Herrick Papers
Professor of Geology, Biology and Natural History at Denison, 1885-1888,
1892-1893.
Also taught at the University of Cincinnati
Indefatigable scientific investigator and teacher
Founder of The Journal of the Scientific Laboratories
Founder of The Journal of Comparative Neurology
The collection includes:
- Biographical material
- Publications of CLH
- Correspondence
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Charles Judson Herrick Papers
Student at Denison
Professor of Biology 1891 - 1907
Later taught at the University of Chicago
Well known neurologist
The collection includes:
- Bibliography & biography of Clarence. L. Herrick
- Publications of Charles Judson Herrick
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Willis Arden Chamberlin Papers
A.B. Denison, 1890: M.A. Denison, 1894
Professor of Modern Languages 1891 - 1938
University Historian
The collection includes:
- Biographical material
- Articles and addresses
- Correspondence
- Unpublished History of Denison to 1913
- Diaries from 1917 to 1938
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Kirtley Fletcher Mather Papers
B.S. Denison, 1909
Professor of Geology 1918-1924
Professor of Geology at Harvard
Prominent scientist, committed Christian
Expert witness in the Scopes trial
Spoke out against Joseph McCarthy
Led opposition to the teacher's oath in Massachusetts
Worked for wide-ranging liberal causes and organizations
The collection includes:
- Biographical material
- Geneological material
- Autobiography to 1925
- Biography by Kennard B. Bork
- Bibliography, books, articles, subject scrapbooks, photographs, film, audio
tapes, memorabilia
- Personal correspondence: includes family letters and 240 round robin letters
between the six "Council" members (KFM, his brother Asher and their close college
friends) and their wives, written between 1910 and 1930
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Kenneth Scott Latourette Papers
Professor of Far Eastern History at Denison, 1916 - 1922
One of the foremost church historians in the U.S.and expert on Oriental history
Sterling Professor of Missions at Yale
The collection includes:
- Biographical material
- Bibliography
- Correspondence, mainly twice-weekly letters to his family August 1916 - August
1921 during a transitional period in his life between careers as a missionary and a
university professor
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Ann Doster Cossum Letters
PhB Denison, 1917.
The collection includes:
- "Dear Mother" Letters written home to her family between 1920 to 1927
while her husband Wilford W. Cossum, PhB Denison 1917, was an educational
missionary in West China. A vivid account of a missionary wife and mother
in remote and isolated post. Second edition, re-typed and published by
their son Edward. Includes photographs. 110 letters, 250 pages.
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Almon Robert Wright Papers
PhB Denison, 1926
Historian and specialist in Latin American Affairs at the U.S. Department of
State and the National Archives.
Edited Latin American section of Foreign Affairs
The collection includes:
- Biographical material
- Poems, book, reprints of published articles
- 23 unpublished articles and essays, most of them about Central and South America
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Mary Kirby Berry Papers
B.A. from Denison, 1938
Medical missionary in Gauhati and Jorhat Assam 1945 -1957
The collection includes:
- Biographical material
- "Life of Dr. Mary Ella Kirby Berry, Assam, India. Medical Missionary. 1916-1957."
- MKB's letters, poems and diaries, edited by her sister Frances.
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Lois Engleman Papers
Denison Librarian 1948 - 1964
The collection includes:
- Letters to her family from Washington, D. C. September 1918 to July 1919,
ca. 200 pages
- Paper written for a class, "Washington in Wartime."
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By Subject
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Church Missions
- Ashmore Papers
- Mather Papers
- Cossum Letters
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Civil Rights/Individual Rights
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Development of Neurology
- Clarence L. Herrick Papers
- Charles J. Herrick Papers
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History of Science
- Journal of the Scientific Laboratories
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Latin America
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Near Eastern History
- William A. Stevens Papers
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Student Writing
- The Denison Collegian
- The Adytum
- The Denisonian
- Flamingo
- Exile
- and other publications
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United States Civil War
- William H.H. Avery Papers
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Women's Education
- Currier Letters
- Brumback Letters
- Other individual letters
- Catalogs of the College for curriculum and costs
- The Adytum, 1882 to present, for organizations
- Governance documents for rules and regulations, etc.
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