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Collection
Identifier: MC007
Abstract
The collection is composed of correspondence, published and unpublished writings, scrapbooks and other material documenting the career of Alfred Williams Anthony, distinguished scholar, teacher and administrator. Included is material related to Anthony's book, Bates College and Its Background, and the Interdenominational Commission of Maine. Also included is material related to his tenure on the Board of Trustees of Bates College and his interest in and writings on a variety of subjects...
Dates:
1872 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1938
Collection
Identifier: MC112
Abstract
The collection is comprised of correspondence, journals, and assorted papers of several members of the Anthony, Waterman and Angell families of Rhode Island which document in detail family, social, educational and religious life in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, particularly in New England. Includes significant material on Alfred W. and Harriet W. Anthony, including their time in Bangor, Maine where Alfred served as pastor of the Essex Street Free Baptist Church and his...
Dates:
1802 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1909
Collection
Identifier: MC091
Abstract
The collection is composed primarily of record books, containing meeting minutes and financial information, from several organizations of the northern branch of the Freewill Baptists, including the Free Baptist Education Society, the Bowdoin Quarterly Meeting, the Free Baptist Foreign Mission Society, the Free Baptist Pastors' Correspondence School, and the General Conference of Free Baptists. The collection also contains the annual meeting minutes of the Maine Free Baptist Association and...
Dates:
1797-1970, n.d. 1797-1944
Collection
Identifier: CA02.82
Abstract
The Maine State Seminary records include correspondence, items relating to the construction of the Seminary (later, Bates College), and several ledgers. Most of the records cover the period prior to the renaming of the Seminary as Bates College, in 1863. This collection, when studied in conjunction with the records and items in the Related Materials section of the finding aid, serve to give a good, general picture of the activities of the College in its earliest decades.
Dates:
1854 - 1898
Collection
Identifier: CA02.03
Abstract
This collection contains records from during and after the tenure of Oren B. Cheney as the first President of Bates College (1855-1894). The records include correspondence, donor certificates, and printed and handwritten documents regarding the early work and activities of Bates College, especially relating to the college's relationship to the Free Will Baptists. Notable correspondents include Maine governor Edwin C. Burleigh, and Cheney's successor at Bates, George C. Chase.
Dates:
1853 - 1902; 1949
Collection
Identifier: MC113
Abstract
Family letters, photographs, genealogical information and other material related to the Freewill Baptist minister Moses H. Tarbox and his descendents, including Grace (Tarbox) Whitman, Bates class of 1900.
Dates:
ca. 1850s-1967
Collection
Identifier: MC025
Abstract
Thomas Angell served as language professor at Bates College from 1869-1902. Shortly after arriving at Bates, Angell was granted a leave of absence for one year which he spent in France and Germany, devoting himself to the study of language and literature. The collection contains his diaries from January 1, 1859-July 24, 1870 in which he writes about: life as a student at Brown University; enlisting in the Rhode Island militia as aide de camp for General Tourtellotte during the Civil War; the...
Dates:
ca. 1800 - 1940
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Anthony, Alfred Williams, 1860-1939
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Angell, Thomas L., 1837-1923
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Anthony family
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Bates College (Lewiston, Me.). Office of the President
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Burleigh, Edwin C. (Edwin Chick), 1843-1916
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Buzzell, John, 1767-1863
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Chase, George C. (George Colby), 1844-1919
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Cheney, O. B. (Oren B.), 1816-1903
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Cobb Divinity School
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Interdenominational Commission of Maine
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Lapham Institute (North Scituate, R.I.)
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Lebanon Academy (West Lebanon, Me.)
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Maine Central Institute (Pittsfield, Me.)
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Maine State Seminary
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Tarbox family
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Tarbox, Moses H., 1824-1907
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United States. Army. Rhode Island Light Artillery Regiment, 1st (1861-1865)
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