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Carlisle (Pa.) First Presbyterian Church records, 1734-1983.

The collection contains church records from 1736 until 1980, with the bulk of the records dated 1756 until 1920. The records include registers, baptismal and marriage records, minutes of Board meetings, financial material, and scrapbook material. Also included in the collection are materials regarding John Creigh, Cumberland County Sabbath School Association, Oliver C. Davidson, the Donegal Presbytery, George Duffield and family, the Presbytery of Carlisle, and Conway P. Wing.

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Carlisle (Pa.) Herald scrapbook, 1857-1861

The collection consists of a scrapbook of clippings from both the Carlisle Herald and the Mechanicsburg Weekly Gazette. The scrapbook was kept by William M. Porter, who succeeded Captain E. Beatty as editor, 1857-1860. The subjects of the articles deal mainly with local issues, including Dickinson College and local events.

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Carlisle (Pa.) St. John's Episcopal Church records, 1760-present.

The collection contains church records from the founding of the church through the present day. The materials in this collection include: parish registers, vestry minutes, annual meeting and parochial reports, registers of church services and guests, financial and legal papers, correspondence, printed materials, materials relating to the building and lands belonging to the church, employee files, historical data, societies and associations of the church, photographs, and artifacts. .

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Carlisle (Pa.) Second Presbyterian Church records, 1833-1977.

The collection consists of folders in three manuscript boxes and 31 ledgers of records relating to the membership and activities of the Second Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. It contains general church records as well as records relating to specific groups within the church, such as the Board of Trustees, Library, Organ, Sabbath School, Treasurer, Women's Missionary Society, Youth's Missionary Society, Women's Foreign Aid Society, and Ladies Home Missionary Society. A few files refer to individual names: Mary E. Beitler, Margaret G. Blask, Mary R. Bratton, James Hamilton, Sr., Alex McGill, Daniel McKinley, and George Norcross.

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John Chapman papers, 1833-1854.

This collection consists of drafts, letters, manuscripts, notes, financial accounts, and a prospectus for the publication of a book. Specifically, there are lectures and notes on mechanics, as well as drafts for patents on inventions submitted to the Royal Commissioners of the Great Exhibition of 1850, including an air engine. Also included are letters and papers on W. L. Henson's Knitting Machine, and also plans and contracts for the establishment of railways and public works in India.

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Joseph Clemens diaries, 1892-1921.

The collections consists of the diaries of Joseph Clemens and his wife, Mary Knapp Strong Clemens. Joseph Clemens was born in Cornwall, England. He left England and entered Dickinson College at the age of 28, graduating in the class of 1894. He entered the Methodist ministry and served as a United States Army Chaplain, 1901-1918. After studying at the University of Southern California from 1912 to 1922, he returned to the Far East as an evangelist and botanist, working in the Philippines and in New Guinea; it was there that he died during a botanical expedition. Joseph Clemens' diaries cover his early career as a student and chaplain: 1892-93, 1895-98, and 1902-21; Mary Clemens' diaries are from 1903 and 1905.

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Charles Collins family papers, 1831-1890.

Charles Collins (1813-1875) was a native of Maine and a graduate of Wesleyan University (1837); he served as president of Emory and Henry College (1838-1852), of Dickinson College (1852-1860) and as proprietor and President of State Female College in Memphis, Tenn. (1860-1875). The collection consists of correspondence, financial materials, literary materials, and printed materials. There are only minor amounts of correspondence, financial and prinnted materials. The bulk of the collection is the literary materials which include diaries, memoranda books, and compilations of sermons. The diaries cover Collins' spiritual life, his early presidency of Dickinson College, his decisions to leave Dickinson, and the effects of the Civil War in Memphis. The diary dated 1842-1874 has very scattered entries while the 1855-1872 diary contains copies of Collins' correspondence. Much of the financial material relates to Dickinson College, including two account books for subscriptions to the college and to a special telescope fund.

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Moncure D. Conway family papers, 1729-1955.

Moncure Daniel Conway was born into a southern aristocratic family, but ultimately became one of the nation's leading abolitionists and humanitarians. Conway was a graduate of Dickinson College in 1848 and was trained for the ministry at Harvard Divinity School. The collection consists mainly of correspondence relating to all phases of Conway's career; his student days at Dickinson and at Harvard, his anti-slavery witness, and his pastorate at South Place Chapel in London. His letters reflect his wide acquaintance with leading intellectual and political figures of his day; some of his correspondents include Ralph Waldo Emerson and Dr. Annie Besant.

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Thomas Creigh papers, 1824-1872.

Thomas Creigh (1808-1880), Dickinson Class of 1828, attended Princeton Theological Seminary and was ordained by the Carlisle Presbytery in 1831. He served as a pastor in Mercersburg, Pa. The collection includes two notebooks from Creigh's student days at Dickinson College. The first notebook dates from 1827 to 1828 and contains lecture notes from William Neill's "Revealed Religion" class and Alexander McClelland's "Metaphysics" class. The second notebook contains a variety of original compositions, including poems, essays, and copies of correspondence dating from 1824 to 1827. The collection also includes two letters from Creigh to James Hamilton written in 1862 and 1872.

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John Andrew Jackson Creswell collection, 1847-1889.

The collection consists of student notes, correspondence, literary material, and printed material related to John Andrew Jackson Creswell, Dickinson College class of 1848 and Postmaster General, 1869-1874. Included in the collection are manuscripts of three speeches, "Italy under Pius IX," "Parties and Party Men in the time of the First Presidents," and one on General Grant's civilian career; also, a book containing copies of letters and testimonials for Creswell, letters to James McCauley and Andrew H. H. Dawson, and notes from lectures given by Professor William H. Allen.

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Walter L. Crowding papers, 1921-1975.

This collection consists of the essays and sermons of Walter L. Crowding, Dickinson Class of 1925 and Methodist minister. Most of the essays are written upon various topics in religion, but also included are treatises on art and literature. The majority of the collection is comprised of more than 800 sermons presented by Crowding from 1921 to 1975.

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John T. Cuddy papers, 1861-1864.

John T. Cuddy (1844-1864) was the son of John and Agnes Cuddy of Carlisle. Not much is known about his early childhood. At the age of 16 he enlisted in a local Pennsylvania regiment as a drummer boy and thus entered the Civil War. The collection consists of correspondence between Cuddy and family back in Carlisle; there are 82 letters or letter fragments in the collection. There are very few gaps in the flow of the correspondence. The last letter is from Cuddy to his parents, dated May 1, 1864, in which he expresses his earnest desire to come home. He would not return home, however; Cuddy was captured by rebel troops at the Battle of Wilderness on May 5, 1864, and subsequently died as a prisoner of war at Florence, South Carolina, on September 29, 1864. Also included are two tintype portraits of Cuddy in uniform. A selection of letters from this collection is available online through the Their Own Words website.

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Andrew Gregg Curtin photograph albums and photographs, c1870.

This collection reflects the three year period in which Andrew Curtin served as minister to Russia, and is arranged in two series: Photograph Albums and Loose Photographs. The albums are housed in one document box, while the loose photographs are housed within the Dickinson College Photograph Collections as PC 2001.21. Because no definitive date has been given for most of these items, the date of the materials has been indicated as c1870. Curtin, Dickinson College Class of 1837, served as "war governor" for Pennsylvania during the Civil War and was appointed minister to Russia following his tenure as governor.

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