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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 250 items) |
Abstract | John W. M. Williams (born 1820?), native of Portsmouth, Va., was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Baltimore, Md., 1851-1884. The collection includes chiefly manuscript sermons, articles, and a diary, 1838-1867, of Williams. The diary begins while Williams was a college student and preacher in Virginia, follows his career in Baltimore, and ends with a European tour. Also included are minutes of the Portsmouth, Va., Ministerial Association of the Baptist Church, 1845-1846; a small amount of church correspondence, 1890-1895; and a diary, 1881-1883, of the European trip of Williams's son-in-law, Joshua Walker Gore, who was a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina. |
Creator | Williams, John W. M., b. 1820? |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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John W. M. Williams (born 1820?), native of Portsmouth, Va., was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Baltimore, Md., 1851-1884. He married Corinthia Read of Maryland. One of their daughters married J. W. Gore of the University of North Carolina.
Back to TopThe collection includes chiefly manuscript sermons, articles, and a diary, 1838-1867, of John W. M. Williams, who was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Baltimore, Md., 1851-1884. The diary begins while Williams was a college student and preacher in his native Virginia, follows his career in Baltimore, and ends with a European tour. Also included are minutes of the Portsmouth, Va., Ministerial Association of the Baptist Church, 1845-1846; a small amount of church correspondence, 1890-1895; and a diary, 1881-1883, of the European trip of Williams's son-in-law, Joshua Walker Gore, who was a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina.
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