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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 25 items) |
Abstract | Methodist and Episcopal minister and professor at colleges in Maryland, Delaware, and New England. Reminiscences relating epecially to slavery on the eastern shore of Maryland when Williams was a boy, and to Williams's European travels and student life in Germany, 1869-1871; speeches while a student at Dickinson College, Pa., 1864-1865, and while he was teaching in New England, 1880- 1889; historical articles; a commonplace book; and other items. |
Creator | Williams, James Merrill, 1842-1894. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, September 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, January 2010
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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James Merrill Williams:
1842 | Born 4 April |
1865-1868 | Taught at a private school |
1868 | Joined the Philadelphia Methodist Conference |
1868-1869 | Preached at Harrington, Del. |
1869-1871 | Student at the University of Berlin and the University of Tubingen |
1871-1873 | Pastor in Cambridge, Md. |
1873 | Principal of the Wilmington Conference Academy in Dover, Del. |
1878-1882 | President of the Wesleyan Female College in Wilmington, Del. |
1882-1885 | Pastor of Pine Street Church, Portland, Md. |
1885-1886 | Pastor of First Church in Concord, N.H. |
1866 | Received Ph.D. degree pro merits from Boston University |
1886-1889 | Pastor at St. Paul's in Manchester, N.H. |
1889-1892 | Pastor at St. Paul's in Fall River, Mass. |
Reminiscences relating epecially to slavery on the eastern shore of Maryland when Williams was a boy, and to Williams's European travels and student life in Germany, 1869-1871; speeches while a student at Dickinson College, Pa., 1864-1865, and while he was teaching in New England, 1880- 1889; historical articles; a commonplace book; and other items.
Back to TopDiplomas, 1868-1870; master's oration, 1868; notifications of admission as candidate for the priest's orders, 1892; letter from Bishop Phillips Brooks, 1892; certificate of ordination as deacon by the bishop of Rhode Island, 1893; and a license to preach, 1893, of James Merrill Williams.
Folder 1 |
School and preaching items |
Eight lecture manuscripts, 1880-1889, delivered mostly in New England; a work called "The Study of Navigation," circa 1878-1882, and in the last folder, a reminiscent chapter called "The Slave Train" with photostats of the first two pages of "My Journal."
Folder 2 |
"Addresses on the Discovery of America" |
Folder 3 |
"A Vacation Ramble in Germany" |
Folder 4 |
"The Grandfather of Our Liberties" |
Folder 5 |
"Visions from Riji" |
Folder 6a |
"German University Life" |
Folder 6b |
"German University Life" |
Folder 6c |
"German University Life" |
Folder 7 |
"Queen Victoria's Reign" |
Folder 8 |
"The Invention of Steam Navigation" |
Folder 9 |
"The Slave Train" |
Arrangement: chronological.
Folder 10 |
Volume 1: 1861-1866, 88 pp.Commonplace book and account book of James M. Williams. |
Folder 11 |
Volume 2: 1864-1865, 1870, 1880, and 1893, 120 pp.Orations from Dickinson College and Reminiscences and a journal of James M. Williams from 1870, 1880, and 1893. |
Image P-2252/1 |
Carte-de-visite of James M. Williams while a senior at Dickinson College, 1865 |
Image P-2252/2 |
Cabinet card of James M. Williams, circa 1889-1892 |