Pepper, Clayton Allen Papers

File

Identifier: RG-1257

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

"Parson Pepper's Paragraphs", a monthly column in the Ohio Baptist paper, 1947-1954; reports to the American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1954-62; reports to the Ohio Baptist Convention, 1962-64; newsletters for Town and Country workers called "The Party Line," 1955-58; addresses, 1948-77; meditations/devotionals by Pepper, 1943-73; manuals and reports about the Town and Country Program, 1978-79.

Dates

Creation: 1943 - 1979

Language of Materials

All materials within this collection are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and copyright holder. Staff may refuse copying of fragile or at-risk materials.

Biographical / Historical

Baptist minister. pastor in New York and Rhode Island; Director of Town and Country Work, Ohio Baptist Convention; Field Director, Town and Country Program, American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1954-1962.

Biographical / Historical

Clayton A. Pepper was born in 1902 in Vernon, son of Arthur and Eveleen Cook Pepper. He was a graduate of Vernon High School, Colgate University and Colgate Rochester Divnity School. He married Gustina Austin of Stony Creek in 1925.

He held pastorates in Horicon and Westport, New York, and Bradford, Rhode Island. For ten years he was town and country director of for the Ohio Baptist Convention and later field director, town and country work for the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Pepper authored "Streams of Influence," a history of the rural church movement in 1973. He retired in 1980.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (350 items)

Additional Description

Related Materials

Bibliography

Stub entry from A Guide to Manuscript Collections in the American Baptist Historical Society, compiled by William H. Brackney and Susan M. Eltscher (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York, 1986).

File Plan

Various papers, addresses and reports; biographical information; Ohio Baptists; The Party Line 1955 to 1958; Reports to ABHMS; meditations and devotionals; Reports to Rhode Island Baptist Convention 1965-1967; Articles by Pepper; Parson Pepper’s Paragraphs column 1944 to 1954; Reports to Ohio Baptist Convention 1962 to 1964; manual on the Town and Country program; Articles for Rhode Island Baptist 1966