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Missionaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Francis McFarland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0053
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 54 miscellaneous letters, 1821-1866; diaries and financial records McFarland kept while he was a missionary and during his two pastorates, 1823-1836, and 1841-1871, at Bethel Presbyterian Church, Augusta County, Va.; lecture notes taken while a student at Princeton University; and printed biographical sketches and engravings of McFarland.Correspondents include Stonewall Jackson, George Junkin, William Spottswood.

Dates: Inclusive 1815-1871
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

George A. Baxter Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0003
Scope and Contents The George A. Baxter Family papers begin in 1797 and trace the history of three generations of the Baxter family in Virginia. The collection contains both correspondence and newspaper articles saved by the family. The letters written by George Baxter primarily describe his ministry from 1798-1840. He writes with concern for both his family and the churches to whom he ministered. The collection also contains many of his sermons which were reproduced in assorted newspapers....
Dates: 1797-1918
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Isaac Bird Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0071
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence between Isaac Bird and various correspondents, including Josiah Brewer, William Goodell and Jonas King, all having to do with early American Board missionaries to the Near East.

Dates: Inclusive 1824-1834
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

James Lewis Howe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0080
Scope and Contents This collection is the papers of James Lewis Howe, professor of chemistry at Washington and Lee University (1894-1938), which include his correspondence concerning the Presbyterian Church and foreign missions, the Washington and Lee University chemistry department, the American Chemical Society and philately. Also included are notes on archival material for and typescript of Annals of Washington and Lee University during the administration of George Washington Custis Lee,...
Dates: Inclusive 1893-1951
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

John Leighton Stuart typescript

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0309
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a typescript and publisher's proof of Fifty years in China: the memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, missionary and ambassador. It includes references to and a prefatory note by George Catlett Marshall, an introduction by noted Chinese educator Hu Shih, references to Pantops Academy (Charlottesville, Va.), Union Theological Seminary (Richmond, Va.), and Yenching University in Beijing, China.

Dates: 1954
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Joseph James Murray Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0302
Scope and Contents The diaries give a precise record of Joseph James Murray's four years as superintendent of home missions in Wilmington, North Carolina, as well as of his life as pastor, family man, traveller, lover of the arts and ornithologist while in Lexington, Virginia (1924-1968). Reminiscences include information about his family, including his wife, Jane Dickson Vardell Murray, and children, J. J. (Jimmy) Murray, Jr. and Jane Murray, and close friends, including Matthew Paxton, Nell Paxton, James G....
Dates: Inclusive 1920-1968
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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