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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Joseph Rennie Papers, #843, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Ellen Eugenia Goodall (Mrs. Joseph) Rennie.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009

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.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Chase City (Va.)--Social life and customs.
• Clergy--Southern States--History.
• Covington (Ky.)--Social life and customs.
• Greenwood (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
• High Point (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Louisville (Ky.)--Social life and customs.
• Oxford (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Presbyterian Church--Clergy--Southern States--History.
• Presbyterian Church--Sermons--History.
• Rennie family.
• Rennie, Joseph, 1860-1943.
• Saint Joseph (Mo.)--Social life and customs.
• Sermons--History.
• Southwestern College (Memphis, Tenn.)--History.

• Rennie Family Papers (#1165).

Joseph Rennie (1860-1943) was a Presbyterian pastor in Chase City, Va.; Oxford, N.C.; Louisville, Ky.; Covington, Ky.; Norfolk, Va.; Greenwood, Miss.; St. Joseph, Mo.; and High Point, N.C.; 1888-1935. Rennie was born in Richmond, Va., and was educated at Richmond College, Hampden-Sydney College, Union Theolgical Seminary, Richmond, Va., and Central University (later Centre College) in Kentucky. He married Ellen Eugenia Goodall, 1888, and had four children, Mary Christian (Mrs. Robert Job Wyatt); Edith Cecil (Mrs. H. V. Carson); Eugenia Christian (Mrs. L. L. Rose); and Joseph Rennie. Rennie retired from the ministry in 1935 and spent his last years in Raleigh, N.C.

The collection includes family and personal correspondence of Joseph Rennie. Letters are concerned chiefly with family and personal matters with some allusions to church affairs and the welfare of Southwestern College, Memphis, Tenn. Also included are letters of congratulation and of sympathy, sermons, a theology student's notebook, clippings, biographical sketches, and a clergyman's record of services.