Penfield (Ga.)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 7 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
Benjamin Osgood Peirce Papers
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0104
Scope and Contents
The collection contains mostly letters between Peirce, his wife, and his parents (1812-83) while he was at Penfield. The letters discuss personal, family, and school matters. Most of these items are photocopies.
Dates:
1838-1914; Majority of material found within 1838-1849
Eugene S. Mitchell Papers
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0131
Scope and Contents
The Eugene S. Mitchell Collection consists mainly of items from Mitchell's education at Mercer University (1857-1860) and correspondence from during and after the American Civil War (1862-1871). Series 1 consists of correspondence, mostly from Mitchell to Chloe Emma Lewis, his future wife. The bulk of the letters were written between 1863 and 1865 from Mitchell’s service in the Virginia battlefields of the Civil War. Only three letters in the collection were written by people...
Dates:
1856-1871
Jesse Mercer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0080
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of papers of Jesse Mercer from 1813-1841. The papers contain mostly correspondence to and from Mercer discussing the business of the Georgia Baptist Association, Baptist education, the establishment of the Hickory Log School in the Cherokee Nation for the education of Indians, Columbian College, and Mercer Institute at Penfield (Georgia). Correspondents include David Benedict, Lucius Bolles, Thomas Curtis, Wilson Lumpkin, Basil Manly, Littleton Meeks, Henry J. Ripley,...
Dates:
1813-1911; Majority of material found within 1813-1841
Mercer University--Manuscript Collection
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0072
Scope and Contents
The Manuscript Collection contains correspondence, essays, journals, notes, receipts, and other documents from multiple creators, arranged in alphabetical order. Some of the letters have transcriptions; a few are photocopies.
Dates:
1718-2008; Majority of material found within 1801-1947
Otis Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0115
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence between acquaintances of Otis Smith, compiled by Otis D. Smith, Otis Smith’s nephew.
Dates:
1771-1978
William Singleton Papers
Collection
Identifier: MU-PP-0120
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a book that was given to William Singleton from Thomas Stocks. Singleton wrote that the book was given to him at Penfield in 1863, and a good third of the volume includes mathematical problems from 1864. Lists of Mercer matriculates from the administration of Pres. H. H. Tucker, dating from the Spring 1867 term through the Fall 1870 term, follow the mathematical problems. The next section of the volume is mainly blank pages with a few loose items interfiled followed...
Dates:
1864-1870