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Box 1

 Container

Contains 16 Results:

Letter from Oren B. Cheney to Rev. Jonathan Fullonton regarding the development of the school, April 6, 1865

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10, item: 1
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: 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...
Dates: April 6, 1865

Note from Harry W. Rowe describing the significance of the letters, February 1, 1949

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, item: 1
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: 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...
Dates: February 1, 1949

Recommendation for F.W. Hopkins from Oren B. Cheney and J.A. Lowell, June 1859

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 13, item: 1
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: 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...
Dates: June 1859

Transcript of section of Cheney's diary, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, item: 1
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1877 - 1885

Receipt for room rent and oil and wood from Samuel Young and David W. Young, September 10, 1864

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 20, item: 1
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: 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...
Dates: September 10, 1864

Report to the Corporation of Bates College, 1870

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 22, item: 1
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: 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...
Dates: 1870