John Pulis graduated from Colgate in 1861 and then served as pastor in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Nebraska. This 1895 letter was to John S. Applegate (also a Colgate grad) thanking him for the book he had written on the life of Col. George Arrowsmith, who was killed at the battle of Gettysburg. The three were good friends. Pulis and Arrowsmith had been roommates at Colgate; George H. Ball (1819--1907) was a Free Will Baptist teacher and pastor. Also an educator, he founded Keuka College in New York. As principal of Geuga Seminary in Ohio, he taught James A. Garfield and his future wife Lucretia. He made a loan to his nephews who developed the Ball canning jar and eventually founded Ball State University; Robert S. MacArthur was pastor of Calvary Baptist in New York for more than 40 years, during which time the membership grew from 238 to 2300. This letter tells that he is on the road a great deal with speaking engagements, some of which involve Chataqua; Herbert S. Johnson was pastor of Warren Ave. Baptist Church in New York in 1903 when he attacked John S. Rockefeller in his sermon. Johnson claimed that Rockefeller’s extraordinary wealth produce moral cowardice. He preached that churches should not accept Rockefeller’s money because the foundation of his wealth was outrageous injustice and oppression. There are accompanying newspaper accounts.