Box 5
Contains 36 Results:
Taylor, Jack R.
first vice president of SBC
Updike, Charles L.
first vice president of SBC
A Brief History of the Hudson Collection of Religious Autographs, 2004
Jedediah Morse Letter, 1806
The letter is about missions. Morse was a Congregationalist, but he's part of the collection because he gave the ordaining prayer at Salem when Rice, Judson, et al were commissioned.
Luther Rice ALS 1821; Latter Day Luminary 1818-1921, 1818-1821
John Russell ALS, 1858
Russell (Recipient of the McCoy book) was a Baptist minister, but primarily an educator and author. In the letter, he makes some interesting observations about John Mason Peck .
Stephen Gano 1827; First Annual Report of Baptist General Tract Society inscribed by James D. Knowles to Nicholas Brown (1825)., 1827, 1825
Samuel Wait ALS, 1820-1834
Wait was important in the history of North Carolina Baptists and was founder of Wake Forest. He also was a fund raiser for Columbian College. One of these letters mentions Rice. They were all written to Wait's wife
Green Clay Smith ALS, 1885
Smith was a prominent pastor in D.C . He also was a Major General in the Civil War (Union), a congressman from Kentucky, governor of the Montana Territory, and the presidential candidate of the Prohibition party in 1876. (I know of no other Baptist pastor who has been a presidential candidate.)
Adiel Sherwood ALS, 1844
Sherwood joined Rice in fundraising and then replaced him as Agent for Columbian College when Rice died. He was also a founder of Mercer.