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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Harry L. Canfield Papers, #2456, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mary Grace Webb Canfield of Woodstock, Vt., 1942

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

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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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• Blind--Services for--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Canfield, Harry L. (Harry Lee), 1860-1942.
• Capital punishment--United States--History--20th century.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972.
• Greensboro (N.C.)--Religion--20th century.
• Kinston (N.C.)--Religion--20th century.
• Laws, Lewis E.
• Libby, Frederick Joseph, 1874-
• North Carolina--Social conditions.
• Odum, Howard Washington, 1884-1954.
• Pou, George Ross, 1894-1947.
• Prison reformers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Sermons, American--North Carolina.
• Social reformers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Sternberger, Myers, Mrs.
• United States--Race relations--20th century.
• Universalist churches--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Weil, Gertrude, 1879-1971.

Harry Lee Canfield (1860-1942) was a Universalist minister in Greensboro and Kinston, N.C., 1922-1936, and a native of Ohio. Prior to his work in North Carolina, Canfield served various parishes in Ohio, Minnesota, and New England. In North Carolina he was president of the Anti-Capital Punishment Society and as a member of the State Welfare Society was active in work for the blind. He married Mary Grace Webb in 1891. Canfield died at Woodstock, Vt., 1942.

The collection includes correspondence, sermons, speeches, and articles by Harry L. Canfield, concerning Universalist church matters, and Canfield's interests in race relations, capital punishment, prison reform, education, birth control, the League of Nations, the blind, and other matters. Correspondents include Frank P. Graham, Lewis E. Laws, Frederick J. Libby, Howard W. Odum, George Ross Pou, Mrs. Myers Sternberger, and Gertrude Weil.