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Mercer University. Board of Trustees

 Organization

Found in 3 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

Homer Drake Papers

 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