Box 5
Contains 36 Results:
Taylor, Jack R.
first vice president of SBC
Updike, Charles L.
first vice president of SBC
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.
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.