Correspondence -- Cheney House (Lewiston, ME), 1897

These records contain records from during and after the tenure of O.B. Cheney as the first President of Bates College. Among the materials are certificates signed by Cheney, to be given to donors to a "Sunday School Offering to the Endowment Fund" for Bates, and a brief letter from Maine Governor Edwin C. Burleigh. The "General Information" folder contains, among other items, a hand- and type-written transcript of information recorded by Cheney from Mrs. A. Wakefield of Lewiston, concerning David Davis, a Quaker and farmer who owned land in Lewiston, and for whom Mount David is named. Folders containing his diary (from 1864) and much of his correspondence and other writings also contain photocopies for patron use. Other folders contain correspondence, reports, sermons, and Cheney's resignation letter as president of Bates College.