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Mercer University. Board of Trustees

 Organization

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Theodore Spalding Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0116
Scope and Contents

The Albert T. Spalding Collection includes a book, journals, account books, personal writings, and papers from Spalding’s time as a Baptist pastor and Mercer University trustee.

Dates: 1849-1920

Bartow Davis Ragsdale Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0102
Scope and Contents

Box 1 contains correspondence, account papers, and Bursar records. Box 2 contains speeches, sermons, and other materials related to his work in the Baptist denomination. Box 3 contains copper plate lithographs used in the printing of The Story of Georgia Baptists.

Dates: 1886-1958; Majority of material found within 1910-1938

Columbus Roberts Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0109
Scope and Contents

The Columbus Roberts Papers include personal records (clippings/time line, correspondence, manuscript, photographs, recordings of interviews, scrapbook, and speeches) as well as materials related to the Georgia Milk Control Board, the Georgia Milk Producers Confederation, the Georgia Temperance League, and Mercer University.

Dates: 1933-1956

Homer Drake Collections

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0201
Scope and Contents

The Homer Drake Collection documents Drake’s relationship with Mercer University in the last three decades of his life. It includes correspondence, meeting minutes, news articles, publications, and other materials from his time on the Board of Trustees and his activities promoting university athletics, especially the football program when it restarted in 2013.

Dates: 1986 - 2020

James Hines Kilpatrick Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0175
Scope and Contents

The James H. Kilpatrick Collection contains a scrapbook. This was apparently given to his son, William Heard Kilpatrick, upon his death in 1908. Inside are clippings, mostly from The Christian Index, but there are also clippings from the Texas Baptist Herald. There is a barely legible index of these clippings on the inside of the front and back covers. Topics var clippings and include church government, missions, temperance, and both amusing and moralistic anecdotes.

Dates: 1908

John Green Harrison Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0038
Scope and Contents

The John Green Harrison Collection is comprised of notes from Harrison’s time as a student and faculty member. Series 1 consists of his notes from his time at the University of Berlin. Series 2 consists of boxes 3-9. Boxes 3-9 contain notebooks from while Mr. Harrison was at Mercer. Most of the notebooks are in poor condition. The covers are about to fall off, and the writing is illegible due to smudging.

Dates: 1905-1906

Pinckney D. Pollock Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0098
Scope and Contents

With this collection comes two boxes of Pinckney Pollock’s work. In box 1, one can find correspondence, and within box 2 one can find memorial addresses, newspaper clippings, and Trustees’ Minutes excerpts.

Dates: 1897-1903

Shaler Granby Hillyer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0048
Scope and Contents

The Shaler G. Hillyer Collection contains Baptist sermons, correspondence, and other materials. Many of the older papers are in poor condition.

Dates: 1830s-1900

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Subject
Baptists -- Georgia -- Clergy 5
Baptist Universities and Colleges -- Georgia 4
Baptist Universities and Colleges -- Alumni and alumnae -- Georgia 3
Baptists -- Georgia 2
Sermons 2