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Re: 1870's Sermons



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Thelma Boeder, archivist
MN Annual Conference, United Methodist Church
----- Original Message -----
From: Lucinda Glenn Rand <lglenn@GTU.EDU>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: 1870's Sermons


> Carolyn,
>
> The term circuit rider often refers to Methodist preachers.  I would
> suggest, if your friend thinks that Drake may be either Presbyterian or
> Methodist that she contact the appropriate denominational seminary library
> in her area.  Old denominational journals (proceedings of meetings) can
> identify for which denomination he was a preacher.  From there, one can
> identify the appropriate denominational archives, Presbyterian or
Methodist,
> in Ohio.  All denominations have geographical area archives, and national
> archives.  I believe the most appropriate archives for ministers is with
> their denomination.
>
> Lucinda Glenn Rand
> Graduate Theological Union Archives
> Berkeley, CA
> 510-649-2507
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carolyn McClurkan [mailto:carolynm@TSCNET.COM]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:01 AM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: 1870's Sermons
>
>
> Hello, fellow listservers,
>
> One of my friends is going through family papers; she has found the
> hand-written sermons of her great-grandfather, who was J. M. Drake (the J.
> may be for Joshua).  All other relatives are deceased, so she wants to
give
> them to a good home.  She believes that he went to Oberlin College; he was
> a chaplain with an Ohio regiment during the Civil War (the papers have at
> least one letter he wrote home) and then, she believes, he was a circuit
> rider; he also believes that he was a Presbyterian.
>
> Her main concern is that they go to a good home.  Anybody recommend a
> suitable archives?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Carolyn McClurkan
>
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