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By Valerie S. Komor and Roland M. Baumann
Collection Overview
Title: James Harris Fairchild Presidential Papers, 1771-1926, 2000
Predominant Dates:1819-1926
ID: RG 2/003
Primary Creator: Fairchild, James Harris (1817-1902)
Other Creators: Fairchild, Mary Fletcher Kellogg (1817-1890)
Extent: 19.75 Linear Feet
Arrangement:
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series I. Correspondence, 1852-1903, undated (Calendared)
The correspondence (largely incoming) of James Harris Fairchild is housed in Boxes 1-19 of this collection and calendared in six volumes (including index) prepared in 1955-1956 by Susan F. Zearing. In Boxes 1-18, correspondence is chronologically arranged; in Box 19, correspondence is alphabetically arranged by correspondent.
Series II. Correspondence, 1819-1900, undated (Uncalendared)
Includes a series of letters from James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg (1838-1841) and a series from Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild (1838-1841) written during their engagement. Fairchild’s letters describe his activities as a student in Oberlin’s Theological Department. These letters, together with a group of letters received by James H. Fairchild (1838-1864), are too fragile to handle and must be viewed either on microfilm, or patrons must use the bound volumes found in Series 8. In this three-volume set, some letters are not dated, others appear in abbreviated form (being edited down), and apparently two original letters were not included. Four letters appearing in the typescript form no longer exist in original form. Among the personal papers filed here is the will (1898) of James H. Fairchild. Files are arranged alphabetically by writer and chronologically thereunder.
Series III. Courtship Correspondence of James H. Fairchild and Mary Fletcher Kellogg (typescript), 1838-1841
This series contains Fairchild Family materials including Mary Kellogg Fairchild’s autograph album (1835-1838) and a photograph album presented to Nancy Harris Fairchild on her golden wedding anniversary in November 1863. Also filed here is “Where Liberty Dwells: the letters of James Harris Fairchild and Mary Fletcher Kellogg from the Western Reserve [1838-41]” a three volume work edited by their son, James Thome Fairchild, and granddaughter Dorothy Kellogg Fairchild Graham (1939). See also above, series description for Series 2.
Series IV. Miscellaneous Institutional Records Kept by James H. Fairchild, ca. 1833-1840, 1854-1884
Includes an incomplete run of President Fairchild’s Annual Reports (1867-1884); notebooks containing Fairchild’s lectures on theology, international law, and painting (1862-1882); and various date books and account books which include lists of subscribers to Oberlin College (ca. 1867) and to the Organ Fund (n.d.). Early faculty records (ca. 1833-1840) may have been collected by Fairchild while President for the purposes of historical research. Materials are arranged alphabetically by type.
Series V. Miscellaneous Non-Institutional Records Kept by James H. Fairchild, 1771-1909, 1926, undated
Contains detailed meteorological observations (1849-1858) made in Oberlin by Fairchild and Professor of Natural History (1849-1864) George N. Allen, which include data on atmospheric pressure, temperature, moisture, and sidereal and planetary movements; several ms. sermons collected by Fairchild (1771-1865), and three ms. letters to “the people of Oberlin” relating to temperance (1881). Two folders, marked “Folder 1” and “Folder 2” include miscellaneous papers such as passports, poems, sermons, and maps. Records are arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Series VI. Teaching Files of James H. Fairchild, 1862-1882, undated
Contains lecture notebooks in 14 volumes spanning 1862-82, academic grade sheets, miscellaneous teaching files, and a manuscript draft of regulations prohibiting pilfering by students, undated.
Series VII. Travel Diaries, 1870-1871, 1884
Diaries are arranged chronologically. Letters of introduction (1870), written for Fairchild prior to the European tour described in three of the diaries (1870-1871), are housed in Series 2, Box 21.
Series VIII. Writings by James H. Fairchild, 1852-1910, undated
Writings by Fairchild separated into manuscript and printed materials. These writings treat matters of theology, morals, historical Oberlin, and travel. Most ms. writings are undated. Writings about Fairchild include both typescript and printed essays by J.G.W. Cowles, Judson Smith, and C.J. Ryder, as well as one modern scholarly study (1966).
Series IX. Sermons, 1869, ca. 1870, 1874-75, 1877, 1880-83, 1885-89, undated
Sermons by James H. Fairchild are arranged in three subseries. Subseries 1. Old Testament Sermons and Subseries 2. New Testament Sermons are arranged by the order of the verses in the Bible on which they are based, and are undated. Series 3 contains sermons delivered at commencements, and are arranged in date order.
Series X. Miscellaneous Printed Writings by James H. Fairchild, 1852-1897
These printed writings consist of newspaper articles and pamphlets of addresses of a much shorter nature than those contained in Series VIII.
Series XI. Writings about James H. Fairchild, 1883-1910, 1966, undated
Includes typescripts of undated tributes and an essay, as well as various printed writings and clippings.
Series XII. Photographs, 1835-1838, 1863, undated
Consists of one photograph of four of Fairchild’s daughters and an album containing fifty albumen portraits of the Fairchild Family. The pictures are arranged by family, with the children in each family following their parents. Some subjects are unidentified. (This album was formerly described as the one presented to Nancy Harris Fairchild on her golden wedding anniversary in November 1863; however, Nancy Fairchild’s album was received in accession 2001/94 and is filed in Series 8.)
Series XIII. Miscellaneous Fairchild Correspondence, 1881, 1887-1889
This late accretion contains a lot of 45 original handwritten letters and postcards, primarily consisting of correspondence (professional and personal) received by President James H. Fairchild, 1887-89. Also included are letters sent and received by other members of the Fairchild family.
Date Acquired: 06/21/1968. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Courtship--United States, Fairchild, James Harris, 1817-1902, Fairchild, James Harris, Mrs., 1817-1890, Oberlin College. President, Sermons, American--19th century.
Forms of Material: autograph albums, diaries, lecture notes, manuscripts, microfilm, photograph albums, photographs, photographs - photographic prints, postcards, publications, records (documents), sermons
Languages: English, Arabic
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The papers (1771, 1819-1926, undated) of James Harris Fairchild do not provide users a complete record of the Fairchild presidency, 1866-1889, or of the personal life of their creator. The body of documentation is instead a mix of personal and professional papers, the bulk of which consists of incoming correspondence (1852-1903). All but two boxes of this correspondence has been described at the item level in a six-volume calendar, plus an index, prepared by Susan F. Zearing in 1955-1956. The correspondence treats those subjects that Oberlin College officially represented, including support of coeducation, missions, black education, and opposition to secret societies and to the use by individuals of alcohol and tobacco. Many of Fairchild’s schoolmates and former pupils sought his counsel, and they communicated with him regarding the “Oberlin Enterprise.” Correspondents include Congregationalists William E. Barton, Sherlock Bristol, Frank Hugh Foster, Abel Hastings Ross, Judson Smith, Josiah Strong, and John M. Williams, and educators William S. Scarborough and Henry A. Schauffler. The family correspondence is extensive, although only a few letters exist of James H. Fairchild. Of interest among the uncalendared letters (1819-1900) is the correspondence between James Harris Fairchild and Mary Fletcher Kellogg during their courtship (1838-1841). The family reproduced the originals in a three-volume set in 1939.
The papers are divided into the following record series: I. Correspondence (Calendared); II. Correspondence (Uncalendared); III. Courtship Correspondence (typescript); IV. Miscellaneous Institutional Records Kept; V. Miscellaneous Non-Institutional Records Kept; VI. Teaching Files; VII. Travel Diaries; VIII. Writings by Fairchild; IX. Sermons; X. Miscellaneous Printed Writings by Fairchild; XI. Writings about Fairchild; XII. Photographs; and, XIII. Miscellaneous Fairchild Correspondence.
Series VIII. Miscellaneous Family Papers was added when additional Fairchild family materials were received from the Oberlin College Library in 2001. Within series, files are typically arranged alphabetically by type of material or chronologically. In the attached Inventory, volume is only indicated for more than one folder of material.
Included with Fairchild's professional and institutional records are several notebooks containing Fairchild's lecture notes for his courses in Moral Philosophy (1862), Theology (1881), and Natural Theology (1881), as well as a series of “Lakeside Lectures” on Scripture (1879, 1880) and lectures on evolution (1876), international law [1878], and painting (1878). The Annual Reports of President Fairchild (1867-1880) to the Board of Trustees, while incomplete, provide information about student health and discipline, curriculum changes, and conditions at the seminary with regard to its low enrollments and faculty shortage. The gap for the years 1881-1889 is filled by a bound volume of reports (1876-1893) in the Oberlin College Archives.
Fairchild’s scholarship is represented in these papers mainly by manuscript and typescript drafts of addresses, articles, and sermons, by printed pamphlets, and by newspaper articles, in the original and in photocopy. None of his books are contained in the collection, although Series VII does contain the manuscript draft of Oberlin, the Colony and the College (1883). Reminiscences about Fairchild, written mainly by former students, are housed with Fairchild’s own writings.
Fairchild’s activities outside of teaching and theological scholarship are evident here in his travel diaries (1870-1871) and in his precise meteorological observations made in Oberlin over a period of nine years (1849-1858). With the exception of the diaries (in Series III), these records are housed together with materials of a miscellaneous character in Series VI. Miscellaneous materials include circulars from various Congregational Church organizations, clippings, an emergency passport issued in 1909 to Mary Flagler Cowles (b. 1862, Lit. 1891), files relating to the Oberlin Agricultural and Horticultural Society (1838-1849), the Oberlin Evangelist Association (1845-1862), and the temperance movement in Oberlin (1881). Miscellaneous papers of a personal nature (1835-1900) are filed in Series II.
Collection Historical Note
James Harris Fairchild (1817-1902), teacher and theologian, served as third President of Oberlin College with which he was associated from its beginnings and for sixty-eight years thereafter. He was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts to Grandison (1792-1890) and Nancy (Harris) Fairchild (1795-1875). The family joined the westward current of migration in 1818, settling in the town of Brownhelm in the Western Reserve of Northern Ohio, nine miles from Oberlin. At the age of fourteen, Fairchild attended the newly opened high school in Elyria, and at seventeen, he entered the first freshman class at Oberlin Collegiate Institute (as Oberlin College was known until 1850). Fairchild graduated from the College Department in 1838 and entered the graduate Theological Department, completing the theological course in 1841. He was married November 29, 1841 at Minden, Louisiana to Mary Fletcher Kellogg (1817-1890), one of the first women to enroll in the College course in 1837. Six girls and two boys were born to the Fairchilds, all but one of whom attended Oberlin.
During his years in the Theological Department, Fairchild served as Tutor in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew for the College Department (1839-1842), becoming Professor of Languages in 1842. In 1847, he was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and in 1858, he was named to the chair of Systematic Theology and Moral Philosophy. During Charles Grandison Finney’s tenure as President (1851-1866), Fairchild assumed most of the administrative duties of the office. Upon Finney’s resignation in 1866, Fairchild, then chairman of the faculty, was elected President. During his twenty-three year tenure as President, the college’s assets increased to a value of one million dollars, and its faculty grew from ten to twenty-three professors. Through Fairchild’s personal example and theological bent, Oberlin’s reputation evolved away from that of the Finney-inspired reformist enclave towards the mainstream. At Oberlin, Fairchild encouraged a respect for pure reason and expressed his belief in the power of education to shape human character. Although he supported the education of women and their right to the vote, he nevertheless wrote in an 1870 article, “Woman’s Right to the Ballot,” that the ballot had been “withheld from woman because the work of government seemed incompatible with the womanly character and work,” adding, “If a woman chooses to feel dishonored by the arrangement, it is merely a matter of her own interpretation.” His anti-slavery stance is well known, particularly after he provided the refuge of his own garret to the fugitive slave, John Price, in 1858. In questions of reform, Fairchild was a moderate.
In 1870 and 1871, President Fairchild traveled in Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land. In 1884, he visited California and Hawaii. Fairchild resigned the presidency in 1889 and retired as Professor of Theology in 1898, but he continued to teach as Professor Emeritus until 1902. He served as a member of the Prudential Committee from 1847 to 1901, as a member of the Board of Trustees from 1889 to 1901, and, during the last year of his life, was prevailed upon to continue his service as an honorary member of the Board.
In addition to numerous essays, commencement addresses, and sermons, Fairchild published several books, including Moral Philosophy or the Science of Obligation (1869) and Elements of Theology, Natural and Revealed (1892). His pamphlet, “Coeducation of the Sexes,” appeared in the annual report of the United States Commissioner of 1867. Fairchild’s Oberlin, the Colony and the College (1883) and his inaugural address published in 1866, “Educational Arrangements and College Life at Oberlin,” remain major sources for the study of early Oberlin history.
Fairchild’s last years in Oberlin were occupied with writing, teaching, and lending counsel to the college with which he had become wholly identified over more than six decades; yet, he was not an unbroken man. Grief was a constant companion for Fairchild, who had endured the untimely deaths of six of his eight children: Emma Frances (d. 1859), Alice Cowles (d.1876), Grace Augusta (d. 1893), George Hornell (d. 1894), Mary Fletcher (d. 1897), and Catherine Cooley (d.1902). Just one month after losing daughter Catherine, Fairchild himself died in Oberlin on March 19, 1902, at the age of 84.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Oberlin College Archives
Accruals:
Accession No: 48, 74, 84, 1977/002, 1999/007, 2001/094
Access Restrictions:
Unrestricted. Fragile materials in Series II must be accessed on microfilm; see microfilm note.
Acquisition Method:
The bulk of the Fairchild Papers, the calendared and uncalendared correspondence, was received by the Oberlin College Library under deed of gift from Mrs. Lucy Kenaston in 1904 and transferred to the College Archives in 1968. Also included in this gift were the diaries and portrait album. The Fairchild-Kellogg letters were given to the library by Donald Love in 1967. Fairchild’s meteorological records arrived in 1969, with other records, and his annual reports arrived in 1977 from the Oberlin College Secretary’s Office. The three volumes of transcripts of the Fairchild-Kellogg letters were given to the Oberlin College Library in 1961 by James Thome Fairchild and Dorothy Kellogg Fairchild Graham; they were transferred to the Archives from the Library’s Special Collections in 2001.
Related Materials:
For letters by Fairchild to W.C. Cochran and references to Fairchild’s preaching, consult the papers of W.C. Cochran (30/8). The Oberlin College Archives holds the papers of Lucy Fletcher Kellogg (1793-1891) (RG 30/88), the mother of Mary Fletcher Kellogg. Berea College holds the papers of E.H. Fairchild (1815-1889), Fairchild’s brother and first Berea College President. See RG 21 for a ninety-nine year lease of Oberlin College land granted to James Henry Fairchild, 9 September 1852. RG 30/165 contains a map of Ban de la Roche, the parish of Jean Frederic Oberlin, which was drawn by Oberlin. This was presented to James H. Fairchild in 1871 by Oberlin’s grandson Dr. Witz.
Processing Information:
Processed by Valerie S. Komor, 27 August 1991.
Finding Aid Revision History:
Revised 5 April 1995; 7 November 2001 by Melissa Gottwald; 2004-05 by Roland M. Baumann, Alice Culbert (OC 1958), and Tammy L. Martin; August 2012 by Anne Cuyler Salsich; May 2024 by Louisa C. Hoffman.
Other Note:
Microfilm Note:
Two-thirds of the James H. Fairchild Papers have been microfilmed. The microfilm consists almost entirely of the calendared correspondence (1852-1903). Also on microfilm is uncalendared correspondence (1835-1870), which includes the Fairchild-Kellogg courtship letters (1838-1841) and Fairchild’s letters (1870-1871) describing his travels. Fairchild’s diaries (1870-1871, 1884) have been microfilmed as well. An unpublished guide to the microfilm is available in the archives.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series I: Correspondence (Calendared), 1852-1903, undated],
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Series II: Correspondence (Uncalendared), 1819-1900, undated],
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Series III: Courtship Correspondence of James Harris Fairchild and Mary Fletcher Kellogg (typescript), 1838-1841],
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Series IV: Miscellaneous Institutional Records Kept by James Harris Fairchild, ca. 1833-1840, 1854-1884],
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Series V: Miscellaneous Non-Institutional Records Kept by James Harris Fairchild, 1771-1909, 1926, undated],
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Series VI: Teaching Files of James Harris Fairchild, 1862-1882, undated],
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Series VII: Travel Diaries, 1870-1871, 1884],
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Series VIII: Writings by James Harris Fairchild, 1852-1910, undated],
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Series IX: Sermons, 1860-1870, 1874-1875, 1877, 1880-1883, 1889, undated],
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Series X: Miscellaneous Printed Writings by James Harris Fairchild, 1852-1897],
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Series XI: Writings about James Harris Fairchild, 1883-1910, 1966, undated],
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Series XII: Photographs, 1833-1838, 1863, undated],
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Series XIII: Miscellaneous Fairchild Correspondence (later accession), 1881, 1887-1889],
[All]
- Series I: Correspondence (Calendared), 1852-1903, undated
- See six volume calendar and index
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1852-1871
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1872
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1873 January-June
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1873 July-1874
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1875 January-June
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1875 July-December
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1876 January-June
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1876 July-September
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1876 October-November
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1876 December
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1877
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1878 January-June
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1878 July-August
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1878 September
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1878 October-November
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1878 December
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1879 January
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1879 February
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1879 March-April
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1879 May-June
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1879 July
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1879 August
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1879 September
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1879 October
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1879 November
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1879 December
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), ca. 1880
- Cards (2 letters) dated 188–, with no completion of the date. Some with date of months, others only 188–. Corresponding cards at beginning of 1880 file.
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1880 January
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1880 February
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1880 March
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1880 April
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1880 May-June
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1880 July
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1880 August
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1880 September
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1880 October
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1880 November
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1880 December
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1881 January
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1881 February
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1881 March
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1881 April
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1881 May
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1881 June
- Folder 12: Correspondence (incoming), 1881 July
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1881 August
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1881 September
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1881 October
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1881 November
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1881 December
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1882 January
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1882 February
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1882 March
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1882 April
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1882 May
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1882 June
- Folder 12: Correspondence (incoming), 1882 July
- Box 6
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1882 August
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1882 September
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1882 October
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1882 November
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1882 December
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1883 January
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1883 February
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1883 March
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1883 April
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1883 May
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1883 June
- Folder 12: Correspondence (incoming), 1883 July
- Box 7
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1883 August
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1883 September
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1883 October
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1883 November
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1883 December
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1884 January
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1884 February
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1884 March
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1884 April
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1884 May
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1884 June
- Folder 12: Correspondence (incoming), 1884 July
- Box 8
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1884 August
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1884 September
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1884 October
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1884 November
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1884 December
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1885 January
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1885 February
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1885 March
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1885 April
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1885 May
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1885 June
- Folder 12: Correspondence (incoming), 1885 July
- Folder 13: Correspondence (incoming), 1885 August
- Box 9
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1885 September
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1885 October
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1885 November
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1885 December
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1886 January
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1886 February
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1886 March
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1886 April
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1886 May-June
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1886 July
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1886 August
- Folder 12: Correspondence (incoming), 1886 September
- Box 10
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1886 October
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1886 November
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1886 December
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1887 January
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1887 February
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1887 March
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1887 April
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1887 May
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1887 June
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1887 July
- Box 11
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1887 August
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1887 September
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1887 October
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1887 November
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1887 December
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1888 January
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1888 February
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1888 March
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1888 April
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1888 May
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1888 June
- Box 12
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1888 July
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1888 August
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1888 September
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1888 October
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1888 November
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1888 December
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1889 January
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1889 February
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1889 March
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1889 April
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1889 May
- Folder 12: Correspondence (incoming), 1889 June
- Box 13
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1889 July
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1889 August
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1889 September
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1889 October
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1889 November
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1889 December
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1890 January
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1890 February
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1890 March
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1890 April
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1890 May
- Folder 12: Correspondence (incoming), 1890 June
- Folder 13: Correspondence (incoming), 1890 July
- Box 14
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1890 August
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1890 September
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1890 October
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1890 November
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1890 December
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1891 January
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1891 February
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1891 March-April
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1891 May
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1891 June
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1891 July-August
- Folder 12: Correspondence (incoming), 1891 September-October
- Folder 13: Correspondence (incoming), 1891 November-December
- Box 15
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1892 January
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1892 February
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1892 March
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1892 April
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1892 May
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1892 June
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1892 July
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1892 August
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1892 September
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1892 October
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1892 November
- Folder 12: Correspondence (incoming), 1892 December
- Folder 13: Correspondence (incoming), 1893 January
- Folder 14: Correspondence (incoming), 1893 February
- Folder 15: Correspondence (incoming), 1893 March
- Folder 16: Correspondence (incoming), 1893 April-May
- Folder 17: Correspondence (incoming), 1893 June-July
- Box 16
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1893 August-September
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1893 October
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1893 November-December
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1894 January
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1894 February
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1894 March-April
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1894 May-June
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1894 July-August
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1894 September-October
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1894 November-December
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1895 January
- Folder 12: Correspondence (incoming), 1895 February-March
- Folder 13: Correspondence (incoming), 1895 April-May
- Folder 14: Correspondence (incoming), 1895 June-July
- Box 17
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1895 August-September
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1895 October-December
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1896 January-February
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1896 March-April
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1896 May
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1896 June
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1896 July-August
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1896 September-October
- Folder 9: Correspondence (incoming), 1896 November
- Folder 10: Correspondence (incoming), 1896 December
- Folder 11: Correspondence (incoming), 1897 January
- Folder 12: Correspondence (incoming), 1897 February
- Folder 13: Correspondence (incoming), 1897 March-April
- Folder 14: Correspondence (incoming), 1897 May-July
- Folder 15: Correspondence (incoming), 1897 August-October
- Folder 16: Correspondence (incoming), 1897 November-December
- Box 18
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), 1898 January-April
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), 1898 May-August
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), 1898 September-December
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), 1899 January-June
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), 1899 July-December
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), 1900 January-June
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), 1900 July-December
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), 1901-1903
- Box 19
- Folder 1: Correspondence (incoming), A-C, undated
- Folder 2: Correspondence (incoming), D-F, undated
- Folder 3: Correspondence (incoming), G-H, undated
- Folder 4: Correspondence (incoming), I-K, undated
- Folder 5: Correspondence (incoming), L-M, undated
- Folder 6: Correspondence (incoming), N-Q, undated
- Folder 7: Correspondence (incoming), R-S, undated
- Folder 8: Correspondence (incoming), T-Z, undated
- Series II: Correspondence (Uncalendared), 1819-1900, undated
- Courtship letters in poor condition, use bound volumes in Series 3 or microfilm in Archives
- Box 1
- Folder 1: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 March 19
- Folder 2: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 March 28
- Folder 3: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, ca. 1838 April 3
- Folder 4: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 April 9
- Folder 5: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 April 16
- Folder 6: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 May
- Folder 7: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 May
- Folder 8: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, ca. 1838 May-June
- Folder 9: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, ca. 1838 May-June
- Folder 10: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 June 18
- Folder 11: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 August 2
- Folder 12: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 August 21
- Folder 13: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 September 14
- Folder 14: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 October 4
- Folder 15: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 October 11
- Folder 16: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 October 24
- Folder 17: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 November 5
- Folder 18: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 November 29
- Folder 19: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1838 December 20
- Folder 20: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1839 January 14
- Folder 21: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1839 February 28
- Folder 22: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1839 March 2
- Folder 23: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1839 April 22
- Folder 24: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1839 May 20
- Folder 25: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1839 June 24
- Folder 26: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1839 July 1
- Folder 27: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1839 August 5
- Folder 28: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1839 October 2
- Folder 29: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1839 October 29
- Folder 30: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1839 November 22
- Folder 31: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1839 December 16
- Folder 32: James Fairchild to Titus and Lucy Kellogg, 1840 January 7
- Folder 33: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 January 10
- Folder 34: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 February 7
- Folder 35: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 March 24
- Folder 36: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 June 2
- Folder 37: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 June 29
- Folder 38: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 July 29
- Folder 39: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 August 25
- Folder 40: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 September 21
- Folder 41: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 October 13
- Folder 42: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 November 2
- Folder 43: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 November 22
- Folder 44: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 December 7
- Folder 45: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 December 21
- Folder 46: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 January 6
- Folder 47: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 January 25
- Folder 48: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 February 8
- Folder 49: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 February 8
- Folder 50: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 March 11
- Folder 51: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 April 10
- Folder 52: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 April 27
- Folder 53: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 May 12
- Folder 54: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 May 30
- Folder 55: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 June 22
- Folder 56: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 July 19
- Folder 57: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 August 22
- Folder 58: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 September 2
- Folder 59: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 September 22
- Folder 60: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 October 21
- Folder 61: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1841 October 31
- Box 1 oversize
- Folder 1: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1839 August 24
- Encapsulated. Located in Oversize Box 1 of the Henry Churchill King Papers (RG 2/6).
- Folder 2: James Fairchild to Mary Kellogg, 1840 February 11
- Encapsulated. Located in Oversize Box 1 of the Henry Churchill King papers (RG 2/6).
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, ca. 1838 March 28
- Folder 2: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, ca. 1838 April 6
- Folder 3: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, ca. 1838 April 10-11
- Folder 4: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1838 April 17
- Folder 5: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1838
- Folder 6: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, ca. 1838 May-June
- Folder 7: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1838
- Folder 8: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1838 August 20
- Folder 9: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1838 September 5
- Folder 10: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1838 October 8
- Folder 11: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1838 October 19
- Folder 12: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1838 November 2
- Folder 13: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1838 November 19
- Folder 14: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1838 December 13
- Folder 15: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1839 January 15
- Folder 16: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1839 February 11
- Folder 17: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1839 March 16
- Folder 18: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1839 April 6
- Folder 19: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1839 May 11
- Folder 20: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1839 June 12
- Folder 21: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1839 July 10
- Folder 22: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1838 July 21
- Folder 23: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1839 August 19
- Folder 24: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1839 September 20
- Folder 25: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1839 October 26
- Folder 26: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1839 November 29
- Folder 27: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1839 December 23
- Folder 28: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1840 January 20
- Folder 29: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1840 February 22
- Folder 30: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1840 March 16
- Folder 31: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1840 May 11
- Folder 32: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1840 June 15
- Folder 33: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1840 July 13
- Folder 34: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1840 September 7
- Folder 35: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1840 October 5
- Folder 36: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1840 November 9
- Folder 37: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1840 December 22
- Folder 38: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1841 January 11
- Folder 39: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1841 February 8
- Folder 40: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1841 March 16
- Folder 41: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1841 April 20
- Folder 42: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1841 May 18
- Folder 43: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1841 June 29
- Folder 44: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1841 July 27
- Folder 45: Mary Kellogg to James Fairchild, 1841 August 31
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Letters to James Fairchild, 1838-1864
- Microfilmed
- Folder 2: James Fairchild correspondence to his family from Europe and the Holy Land, 1870-1871
- Microfilmed
- Folder 3: James Fairchild to Charles Grandison Finney, ca. 1850-1860
- Folder 4: James Fairchild to Captain Alva Bradley, ca. 1837
- Folder 5: James Fairchild to his parents Grandison and Nancy Fairchild, 1872 January 24
- Folder 6: Letters of introduction on behalf of James Fairchild in Europe, 1870
- Folder 7: Third party correspondence, ca. 1830-1880, undated
- Folder 8: Various letters and personal papers, 1835-1900, undated
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Incomplete letters, 1883-1899
- Folder 2: Incomplete and unidentified letters and essays, ca. 1869-1899
- Folder 3: Incomplete and unidentified letters and essays, ca. 1869-1899
- Folder 4: Loose papers received after microfilming, 1819-1894
- Series III: Courtship Correspondence of James Harris Fairchild and Mary Fletcher Kellogg (typescript), 1838-1841
- Item 1: "Where Liberty Dwells: The Letters of James Harris Fairchild and Mary Fletcher Kellogg from the Western Reserve, 1838-1841, Volume I, 1939
- Item 2: "Where Liberty Dwells: The Letters of James Harris Fairchild and Mary Fletcher Kellogg from the Western Reserve, 1838-1841, Volume II, 1939
- Item 3: "Where Liberty Dwells: The Letters of James Harris Fairchild and Mary Fletcher Kellogg from the Western Reserve, 1838-1841, Volume III, 1939
- Folder 1: Index to letters, undated
- Series IV: Miscellaneous Institutional Records Kept by James Harris Fairchild, ca. 1833-1840, 1854-1884
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Annual Reports of the President, 1867 August-1879 January
- Folder 2: Annual Reports of the President (photocopies), 1876 July-1879 January
- Folder 3: Annual Reports of the President, 1867-1869
- Folder 4: Annual Reports of the President, 1870-1875
- Folder 5: Annual Reports of the President, 1876-1877
- Original closed to researchers. Use photocopy provided.
- Folder 6: Annual Reports of the President, 1876-1879
- Folder 7: Annual Reports of the President, 1880s
- Folder 8: Annual Reports of the President, 1884
- Folder 9: Date books and account books (4 vol), 1854-1874
- Folder 10: Petitions and official records of early Oberlin faculty, ca. 1833-1840
- Includes student confessions
- Series V: Miscellaneous Non-Institutional Records Kept by James Harris Fairchild, 1771-1909, 1926, undated
- Subseries 1: Manuscript Material, 1771-1926
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Meteorological Observations of James Fairchild made in Oberlin, Ohio, 1849
- Folder 2: Meteorological Observations of James Fairchild made in Oberlin, Ohio, 1850
- Folder 3: Meteorological Observations of James Fairchild made in Oberlin, Ohio, 1851
- Folder 4: Meteorological Observations of James Fairchild made in Oberlin, Ohio, 1852
- Folder 5: Meteorological Observations of James Fairchild made in Oberlin, Ohio, 1853
- Folder 6: Meteorological Observations of James Fairchild made in Oberlin, Ohio, 1854
- Folder 7: Meteorological Observations of James Fairchild made in Oberlin, Ohio, 1855
- Folder 8: Meteorological Observations of James Fairchild made in Oberlin, Ohio, 1856
- Folder 9: Meteorological Observations of James Fairchild made in Oberlin, Ohio, 1857
- Folder 10: Meteorological Observations of James Fairchild made in Oberlin, Ohio, 1858
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Miscellaneous papers, 1847-1887, undated
- Item 1: "Oberlin" poem, 1849
- Item 2: Board of National Popular Education circular (printed), 1848
- Item 3: Letters of Catherine Esther Beecher to Antoinette Putnam (2 letters), 1847
- Item 4: Articles of Faith proposed by the New York City Congregational Church (4 copies), undated
- Item 5: American board of the Congregational Church announcement of meeting, 1887
- Folder 2: Miscellaneous papers, 1771-1926, undated
- Item 1: Bill to incorporate the Trustees of the First Congregational Society, Strongsville, Ohio, undated
- Item 2: Woman's Board of Missions Bulletin, Chicago, 1926
- Item 3: "The Saratoga Anniversary (60th) of the American Home Missionary Society" clipping, undated
- Item 4: "The Ignorance that is Bliss" clipping, undated
- Item 5: Indenture (lease), Martin H. Drummond for Joshua S. Harlow, 1851
- Item 6: Document in Arabic with Edward Increase Bosworth's name in pencil, undated
- Item 7: History of unknown church, Trumbull County, Ohio, undated
- Item 8: Map in Arabic, undated
- Item 9: Marriage certificate of William Robbins, 1849
- Item 10: Emergency Turkish Passport of Mary F. Cowles, 1909
- Item 11: Receipt for a subscription to Bibliotheca Sacra, undated
- Item 12: Western Reserve Society invitation to join the Sons of the American Revolution (printed), 1892
- Folder 3: Reverend Joseph Badger, 1840, 1851
- Item 1: Galleys of autobiography, 1851
- Item 2: Letter from Joseph Badger to Thomas Day (manuscript and transcription), 1840
- Folder 4: Examination in Positive Institutions, undated
- Folder 5: Oberlin Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 1839-1849
- Folder 6: Oberlin Agricultural and Horticultural Society, undated
- Folder 7: Oberlin Agricultural and Horticultural Society, undated
- Folder 8: Oberlin Evangelist Association, 1845-1858
- Folder 9: Oberlin Evangelist Association, 1849-1862
- Folder 10: Sermons (manuscripts) collected by Fairchild, 1771-1865
- Folder 11: Temperance Movement: letters to the people of Oberlin from Harmon Beecher and T.H. Rowland, 1881
- Subseries 2: Printed Material, 1876-1884, undated
- Box 2
- Folder 12: "A Defence of Ohio Congregationalism and Oberlin College, in Reply to Kennedy's Plan of Union by Rev. Henry Cowles (24 pp), undated
- Folder 13: "Lessons from the Hawaiian Islands" by S.C. Armstrong, reprinted from The Journal of Christian Philosophy (30 pp), 1884 January
- Folder 14: "Ohio Manual, A Statement of the Historical, Doctrinal, and Ecclesiastical Position of the Congregational Churches" (40 pp), 1876
- Folder 15: "Who Wrote the Book of Mormon" by Robert Patterson of Pittsburgh, reprinted from The Illustrated History of Washington County (16 pp), 1882
- Series VI: Teaching Files of James Harris Fairchild, 1862-1882, undated
- Box 1
- Item 1: Lecture Notebooks (12 vol), 1862-1882, undated
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Lecture Notebooks (2 vol), 1881-1882
- Folder 2: Academic grade sheets (3), 1865, 1881
- Folder 3: Miscellaneous teaching files, undated
- Folder 4: Regulations prohibiting pilfering by students, undated
- Box 3 oversize
- Item 1: Class list with grades, 1866
- Series VII: Travel Diaries, 1870-1871, 1884
- Folder 1: European trip diaries (3 vol), 1870-1871
- Folder 2: California and Hawaii travel diary, 1884
- Series VIII: Writings by James Harris Fairchild, 1852-1910, undated
- Subseries 1: Writings as per Initial Arrangement of 1969-1970, 1833-1897, 2000, undated
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Autobiography of James Harris Fairchild (43 pp), 1897 September
- Written in pencil
- Folder 2: "Grandfather's Story" (61 pp), undated
- Folder 3: Autobiographical manuscript segments, undated
- 3 segments
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Elements of Natural Theology, incomplete manuscript, 1892
- Folder 2: Elements of Natural Theology, incomplete manuscript, 1892
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Labor and Capital manuscript, undated
- Folder 2: Oberlin Literature manuscript, undated
- Folder 3: Editor of the Independent manuscript, undated
- Folder 4: Joseph Cook on Conscience manuscript, undated
- Folder 5: Untitled (in pencil) manuscript, undated
- Folder 6: Oberlin Theology manuscript, undated
- Includes photocopy
- Folder 7: Oberlin Theology, transcription provided by Allen Guelzo, 2000
- Folder 8: Oberlin: The Colony and the College manuscript, 1833-1883
- Folder 9: Oberlin: The Colony and the College manuscript, 1833-1883
- Folder 10: Oberlin: The Colony and the College manuscript, 1833-1883
- Folder 11: "The Political Situation," an article read before the Literary Association of the Faculty of Oberlin College manuscript, undated
- Folder 12: "The Doctrine of Sanctification at Oberlin manuscript, 1876
- Subseries 2: Writings as per Rearrangement of 2004-2005, 1844-1897, undated
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Erie and Huron Counties, 1853 October 6
- Folder 2: Address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Oberlin, 1844 October 15
- Folder 3: Civilized Labor, undated
- First page and other pages missing.
- Folder 4: "The Disturbing Forces in American Homes" manuscript given at Oberlin College, ca. 1882
- Folder 5: "...Friend of Education," regarding Agricultural and Industrial Education, meeting held in Columbus, Ohio, 1864 December 27
- James Harris Fairchild was the secretary of this group.
- Folder 6: "Relations of Labor and Capital", undated
- Folder 7: Scholarship funded by College Alumni, ca. 1866
- Folder 8: "The Successful Farmer", undated
- Folder 9: "Taxation of Churches and Colleges", undated
- Folder 10: "Taxation of Colleges and Churches", undated
- Folder 11: "Tools and Machinery," an address to the Students of the Ohio Agricultural College, Columbus, Ohii, 1854 December 4
- Clippings pasted into booklet with notes.
- Folder 12: "Work and its Reward" (Matthew 20:7), undated
- Folder 13: "The College", 1873
- Folder 14: "College Discipline", 1883
- Folder 15: "Course of Study," monthly lecture, 1867 March
- Folder 16: "Finances of Students", undated
- Folder 17: "Financial Matters", undated
- Folder 18: "General Duties of Students", undated
- Folder 19: "The Joint Education of the Sexes," presented at Ohio State Teachers Association, Sandusky, Ohio, 1852 July 8
- Two copies.
- Folder 20: "Lecture 5" (Physical Chemistry), undated
- Folder 21: "Marking Honors–Prizes", undated
- Folder 22: "Matters Pertaining to Morals of Students," lecture to students, undated
- Folder 23: "Mental Habits and Tendencies," lecture to students, undated
- Folder 24: "Money and its Uses," lecture to students, undated
- Folder 25: Notes taken of orations (reverse side of program) at the Anniversary Exercises of the Young Men's Lyceum, 1855 August 11
- Folder 26: "Oberlin, Its Origin, Progress, and Results" pamphlet, 1860, 1871
- Includes second pamphlet republished from 1860
- Folder 27: "Responsibilities of Students–No Text or Sermon" manuscript, undated
- Folder 28: "Rudeness of Manners," lecture to students, 1851 April 14
- Folder 29: "The Students' Probation", ca. 1863 July
- Folder 30: "The Teacher's Powers as Resulting from Completeness of Character", undated
- Folder 31: "Talk to Teachers, Outside Study and Knowledge", 1884 September 30
- Folder 32: "To Teachers–A Lecture, Social Duties and Relations", undated
- Folder 33: "To Teachers, The Teacher's Relation to Money", 1868 September 15
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Funeral remarks given at the funeral of Brother S. (OC graduate ca. 1838), undated
- Folder 2: Funeral remarks given at the funeral of Mrs. Minerva Dayton Cowles, ca. 1880
- Folder 3: Funeral remarks given at the funeral of James Dascomb, ca. 1880
- Folder 4: Funeral remarks given at the funeral of Mrs. Marianne Parker Dascomb, ca. 1879
- Folder 5: Funeral remarks given at the funeral of Dr. Isaac Jennings, ca. 1874
- Folder 6: Funeral remarks given at the funeral of Father John Keep (born 1781 April 20), ca. 1870
- Folder 7: Funeral remarks made regarding the loss of our young friend (illegible), undated
- Folder 8: Notes on the meeting of the American Board for Commissioners on Foreign Missions, annual meeting at Springfield, Massachusetts, undated
- Folder 9: Address before the Young Men's Anti Slaver Society of Oberlin, undated
- Probably before 1852.
- Folder 10: Address before the Union Literary Society regarding the system of association or the combined order of social life, 1844 April 10
- Folder 11: An adjournment meeting of the Friends of Education convened at the Goodale House in Columbus, at the call of the Committee, 1865 January 17
- Folder 12: "Conscience or Desires," Thursday Lecture, 1872 October 10
- Folder 13: "Close of the Civil War" (Thanksgiving) on an occasion of gratitude and joy delivered at Oberlin, 1865 April 14
- Folder 14: "The English Universities" given to teachers and served as a Thursday Lecture, 1872, 1882
- Folder 15: "Manners" Thursday Lecture, 1886 December 9
- Folder 16: "Our College Social Life" Thursday Lecture, 1875 April 15
- Folder 17: Ruins, Acropolis and other measurements, undated
- Folder 18: "Ruins No. I," Thursday Lecture, 1883
- Folder 19: "Ruins No. II", 1884
- Folder 20: "School Government," Teachers Institute at Oberlin, 1869, 1873
- Folder 21: "Tobacco," Thursday Lecture, 1876 October
- Folder 22: "To Sabbath School Teachers" (Deuteronomy 11:18-19), 1869 May
- Folder 23: "To the Children" (Proverbs 15:3: "The eyes of the Lord are in every place"), undated
- Folder 24: "The Work of the Physician and its Requirements," address given to the Charity Hospital Medicine College of Cleveland, 1865 February 23
- Box 6
- Folder 1: "Address for Brownhelm, Ohio", 1856 July 4
- Folder 2: "Be Patient" newspaper clipping, undated
- Folder 3: "Before Honor is Humility", undated
- Folder 4: "Class Influence, Its Advantages and Liabilities", 1877 December
- Folder 5: "Faith–Its Nature and Obligation," Wellesley College, 1884 June 6
- Folder 6: "Importance of Faithful and Punctual Attendance", 1855 October 31
- Folder 7: "Individual Responsibility", undated
- Folder 8: "Man as Religious Being," Reading Room Lecture, 1884
- Folder 9: "Modern Materialistic Scepticism", undated
- Folder 10: "My Young Friends of the Graduating Classes", undated
- Folder 11: "Obligation–Its Nature, Grounds, and Conditions", 1869 Fall
- Folder 12: "Operations of Secret Organizations upon Social Life", undated
- Folder 13: "Personal Power," notes for a talk, 1868
- Folder 14: "Reasons for Accepting Inspiration", undated
- Folder 15: "Repentance, Pentinence, Impentinence", undated
- Folder 16: "The Responsibility of the Public Schools for the Development of Character", undated
- Segments: pp 1-5, pp 45-46.
- Folder 17: "Secret Organizations", 1867 April
- Folder 18: Talk No. I, undated
- Not found or identified in James Harris Fairchild's writings.
- Folder 19: Talk No. II, Reading Room Lecture, 1884
- Folder 20: "A Talk for Boys", undated
- Folder 21: "Truthfulness and Its Relation to Character", undated
- Folder 22: "Virtue and Sin", 1870 Spring
- Folder 23: "Virtue and Sin", ca. 1869-1870
- Box 7
- Folder 1: "Brooklyn Council", 1876
- Folder 2: "Calvinism and Arminianism" (predestination versus univeralism)u, undated
- Folder 3: "The Congregationial System, on Congregationialism,", 1886
- Early draft.
- Folder 4: "History of the Congregational Church of Brownhelm" lecture, undated
- Folder 5: "The Mohammedans found in Persia", undated
- Folder 6: "The Mohammedans at Home", ca. 1878
- Folder 7: "Mohammedanism as it appears to a Stranger", undated
- Folder 8: "Mormonism and the Spaulding Manuscript", 1884
- Incomplete.
- Folder 9: "Mystery in Religion", undated
- Folder 10: "Mystery in Religion: Other Depths of the riches..." (Romans 11:33), for the Young People's Circle of Elyria, undated
- Folder 11: "Needed Phases of Christianity, the Character Essential to the Religion which Shall take a Strong hold of the American People", undated
- Penciled note: "A Paper read before the recent National Council of Congregational Churchs at New Haven, Connecticut, by President J.H. Fairchild, D.D., of Oberlin, Ohio College." Clipping from "New Haven Paper" pasted in booklet on reused paper.
- Folder 12: "Religion and the State", undated
- Folder 13: "Story of Congregationalism on the Western Reserve," Cincinnati, Ohio, 1894
- Box 8
- Folder 1: "The Church", undated
- Folder 2: "Church Government (3), Centralization", undated
- Folder 3: "Church Polity", undated
- Folder 4: "Church Taxation", 1878
- Folder 5: "Conditions after Death", undated
- Folder 6: "The Creation No. 3", undated
- Folder 7: "Divine Government," Reading Room Lecture Number 4, 1884 May 4
- Folder 8: "The Divine Personality" manuscript, undated
- Folder 9: "Divine Providence", undated
- Folder 10: "Distinctive Characteristics of the Christian", undated
- Folder 11: "Diving Sovereignty", undated
- Folder 12: "Doctrine of Immortality", undated
- Folder 13: "The Doctrine of Sanctification at Oberlin," pamphlet, 1897
- Folder 14: "Doctrine of Sin", undated
- Large ink blot.
- Folder 15: "Election", undated
- Folder 16: "Faith and Unbelief", undated
- Folder 17: "Fellowship of the Churches", undated
- Folder 18: "The fruits of their labor should be long in Maturing," regarding attending to the spread of the Gospel, undated
- Folder 19: God and the World, undated
- Incomplete or missing front page.
- Folder 20: "God's Existence and Attributes", undated
- Folder 21: "The Holy Spirit or Spirits of God", undated
- Folder 22: "How We Know God," Reading Room Lecture Number 3, 1884 April 27
- Folder 23: "Immortality", undated
- Folder 24: "Indian Missions", undated
- Folder 25: Infinite, meanings of, undated
- Folder 26: "Inspiration of the Scriptures", undated
- Folder 27: "Justification", undated
- Folder 28: Lecture before the Young Men's Missionary Society, on Salvation of Heathen Men, undated
- Folder 29: "The Lord's Supper", undated
- Folder 30: "Ministers and Money", undated
- Folder 31: "Miracles", undated
- Folder 32: "Moral Attributes of God", undated
- Folder 33: Untitled remarks at the opening of the Congregational Council meeting, 1871
- Folder 34: "Pantheism", undated
- Folder 35: "Person and Nature of Christ", undated
- Folder 36: "Perseverance of the Saints", undated
- Folder 37: "Personal Work in Gospel Diffusion" (Luke 17:21), ca. 1868
- Folder 38: "Power of the Gospel", undated
- Folder 39: "Prayer", undated
- Folder 40: "Prayer", undated
- Folder 41: "Present Demand of the Missionary Work" (John 4:20: "He that loveth not his brother...") given in Providence, Rhode Island, 1877 October 2
- Folder 42: Progress of Man, undated
- First page and other pages missing.
- Folder 43: "Providence", undated
- Folder 44: "Rational Theology" newspaper clipping, undated
- Folder 45: "Regeneration", undated
- Folder 46: "Religion", undated
- Folder 47: "Article I", undated
- Not found or identified in James Harris Fairchild's writings.
- Folder 48: "Article II: The Religious Life: Its Nature and Claims", undated
- Folder 49: "Theological Discussions" remarks at reunion, 1868
- Folder 50: Remarks regarding Christian promise, undated
- Folder 51: "Repentance, Penitence, Impenitence", undated
- Folder 52: "The Resurrection", undated
- Folder 53: "The Rights of God" (Malachi 1:6: "A son honoreth his father..."), Congregational Church, Wakeman, Ohio, 1879 January 1
- Folder 54: "Sanctification", 1862 July 3
- Folder 55: "Set even affections on things above...", undated
- Folder 56: "Sin and Holiness", undated
- Folder 57: "Spiritualism", undated
- Folder 58: "Theology," Introductory Lecture, 1881
- Folder 59: "Theories of the Atonement," a paper for the Congregational Club of Cleveland, undated
- Folder 60: "The Trinity", undated
- Folder 61: "The Trinity", undated
- Folder 62: "Trinity (1)", undated
- Folder 63: "Trinity (2) Historical", undated
- Folder 64: "Use of Creeds," Chapter XXI, Value and Use of Creeds penciled in. "Proposed Articles of Faith" is included., 1883
- This piece is in Chapter XX in Swing's 1907 book, James Harris Fairchild.
- Folder 65: What do the Lord require of thee..." (Micah 6:8), undated
- This piece is not in James Harris Fairchild's handwriting.
- Folder 66: "The Will–Review", undated
- Folder 67: "Worship–A Few Words," Thursday Lecture, 1874 October 29
- Folder 68: "Worship", undated
- Box 9
- Folder 1: "Anti-tobacco Tracts for Youth–No. 2," Fitchburg, Massachusetts, undated
- Folder 2: "The Church and Tobacco", 1877 December
- Folder 3: Drinking, undated
- Missing pages.
- Folder 4: "Gambling," a talk to students, 1893 June
- Folder 5: "How Shall We Render Our Churches More Attractive to the Poor?", undated
- Folder 6: "Indian Missions South," regarding the plight of North American Indians, undated
- Folder 7: Local Option (Temperance), undated
- Folder 8: "Missionaries from Oberlin", undated
- Folder 9: "Nebraska", ca. 1850s
- Folder 10: "Our Civilization," regarding foundations of society, undated
- Folder 11: "Probation–Its Conditions and Limitations", undated
- Folder 12: "A Sketch of the Antislavery History of Oberlin," an address to the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, Oberlin, 1856 May 13
- Folder 13: "A Statement of the Progress of Prison Conditions," presented at the general gathering of Alumni, Oberlin College, 1856
- Folder 14: "Suggestions to Theological Students as to the Relations of the Pastor to Women of His Church and Congregation", undated
- Folder 15: "The Taxation of Vices", undated
- Folder 16: "Temperance," regarding the Rumsellers Trial, delivered at Amherst, Ohio, undated
- Folder 17: "Temperance," listed brief notes, undated
- Folder 18: "Temperance", 1874 February 26
- Folder 19: "The True Character of Slavery as It Existed in This Country", ca. 1890
- Folder 20: Wellington Rescue, manuscript fragment, ca. 1894-1895
- Pages 25-35 only.
- Folder 21: "Woman's Right to the Ballot," book (3 copies), 1870
- Folder 22: "Woman's Suffrage Affirmation", undated
- Box 10
- Folder 1: "A Talk on Travel," Thursday Lecture, Oberlin, Ohio, 1887 September 29
- Folder 2: "Egypt–The Country, the People, and the Ruins," unfinished manuscript, ca. 1870s
- Folder 3: "The Journey to Egypt," listed notes, ca. 1871
- Folder 4: "Egypt, The Country, the People, and the Ruins", ca. 1870s
- Folder 5: "Art Collections of Europe: Remarks–not a lecture on art nor attempt at Art Criticism–nor even a lecture at all–merely a talk on what an average traveler sees–in the way of art", ca. 1871
- Folder 6: "Constantinople," Thursday Lecture, 1877 June
- Folder 7: "The Hawaiian Islands", ca. 1884
- Folder 8: "My Visit to the Islands," manuscript personal notes and observations, ca. 1884
- Folder 9: "The Holy Land", ca. 1871
- Folder 10: "Journeyings in the Holy Land", ca. 1871
- Folder 11: "Palestine," notes on recent trip, ca. 1871
- Folder 12: "An Oberlin Student's Journey in the Early Times to the Far Southwest", undated
- Folder 13: "The Yellowstone National park" ("recent national institution..."), undated
- Folder 14: "To the Yosemite", ca. 1886
- Box 11
- Folder 1: "Government", undated
- Folder 2: "Oberlin and Michigan," speech to alumni in Lansing, Michigan regarding Oberlin influence in developing education in Michigan, 1880s
- Folder 3: "On the State of the Union", 1861 February 10
- Folder 4: "Painting 1 & 2", undated
- Folder 5: "Pioneer Life in Northern Ohio", ca. 1888
- Folder 6: "Progress of the College since the Jubilee Year," address given in Chicago, 1883
- Folder 7: Reminiscence regarding riding through forest to meet a young lady, manuscript fragment, undated
- Folder 8: "School Government", 1870, ca. 1875-1876
- Folder 9: School Life in Northern Ohio Half a Century Ago, undated
- Folder 10: Miscellaneous fragments, undated
- Folder 11: Fragments, orphan documents, undated
- Series IX: Sermons, 1860-1870, 1874-1875, 1877, 1880-1883, 1889, undated
- Arranged by the order of the books in the Bible
- Subseries 1: Old Testament Sermons, 1860-1861, 1865, 1872, ca. 1874, undated
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Lists of sermon topics, undated
- Folder 2: “The Creation” (Genesis 1), undated
- Folder 3: “In the beginning…” (Genesis 1:1), undated
- Folder 4: “The Creation No. 2” (Genesis 1:6), undated
- Folder 5: The Interpretation & the Tale (Genesis 2, 3), undated
- Folder 6: “God’s Language towards the sinner” (Genesis 2:17, I John 2:1), undated
- Folder 7: “What hast thou done?” (Genesis 4:10), undated
- Folder 8: “Enoch walked with God” (Genesis 5:24), undated
- Folder 9: “The Deluge and its Lessons” (Genesis 6, 7, 8), undated
- Folder 10: “Noah and the dove” (Genesis 8:10, Genesis 29:27), undated
- Folder 11: “The deliverance from Egypt” (Genesis 9:13), undated
- Folder 12: “The Call of Abraham” (Genesis 12), undated
- Folder 13: “Picture of the Patriarchs,” “The Word of the Lord came unto Abraham” (Genesis 15:1), undated
- Folder 14: “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25), undated
- Folder 15: “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25), undated
- Folder 16: “And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh” (Genesis 22:14), undated
- Folder 17: “We are verily guilty concerning our brother” (Genesis 42:21), undated
- Folder 18: “Giving of the Law” (Exodus 19, 20), undated
- Folder 19: “No other Gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3), undated
- Folder 20: “Thou shall have no other Gods before Me” (Exodus 20:3, Deuteronomy 5:7), undated
- Folder 21: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image” (Exodus 20:4-6, Deuteronomy 5:8-10), undated
- Folder 22: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image” (Exodus 20:4, 5, 6), undated
- Folder 23: “Thou shalt not take the name…” (Exodus 20:7), undated
- Folder 24: “Thou shalt not take the name…” (Exodus 20:7), undated
- Folder 25: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8), undated
- Folder 26: “The Sabbath” (Exodus 20:8), undated
- Folder 27: “Fourth Commandment” (Exodus 20:8-11), undated
- Folder 28: “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8-11), undated
- Folder 29: “Honour thy Father and thy Mother” (Exodus 20:12), undated
- Folder 30: “Honour thy Father and thy Mother” (Exodus 20:12), undated
- Folder 31: “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13), undated
- Folder 32: “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13), undated
- Folder 33: "Thou shalt not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14), undated
- Folder 34: “Thou shalt not steal” (Exodus 20:15), undated
- Folder 35: “Thou shalt not steal” (Exodus 20:15), undated
- Folder 36: “Thou shalt not bear false witness” (Exodus 20:16), undated
- Folder 37: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” (Exodus 20:16), undated
- Folder 38: “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house” (Exodus 20:17), undated
- Folder 39: “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house” (Exodus 20:17), undated
- Folder 40: “Speak unto the children of Israel” (Exodus 25:2), undated
- Folder 41: “Six days shall Work be done” (Leviticus 23:3), undated
- Folder 42: “You shall utterly destroy all the places…” (Deuteronomy 12:2, 3), undated
- Folder 43: “For the Lord’s portion is his people” (Deuteronomy 32:9), undated
- Folder 44: “It is the Lord. Let him do…” (I Samuel 3:18), undated
- Folder 45: “It is the Lord, Let him do what seemeth him good” (I Samuel 3:18), undated
- Given after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
- Folder 46: “They set Dagon in his place” (I Samuel 5:3), undated
- Folder 47: “And they took Dagon and set him in his place again” (I Samuel 5:3), undated
- Folder 48: “Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings…” (I Samuel 15:22), undated
- Folder 49: “Too proud to wash in the Jordan” (II Kings 5:12), undated
- Folder 50: “The God of heaven, he will prosper us” (Nehemiah 2:20), undated
- Folder 51: “And who knoweth whether thou are come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14), undated
- Folder 52: “Loweth the ox over his fodder” (Job 6:5), undated
- Folder 53: “Acquaint self with Him and be at peace” (Job 22:21), undated
- Folder 54: “Acquaint self with Him and be at peace” (Job 22:21), undated
- Folder 55: “Against now thyself with him” (Job 22:21), undated
- Folder 56: “For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels” (Psalms 8:5), undated
- Folder 57: “Some trust in chariots” (Psalms 20:7), undated
- Folder 58: “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalms 46:10), undated
- Folder 59: “Create in me a clean heart” (Psalms 51:10), undated
- Folder 60: “We spend our years as a tale that is told” (Psalms 90:9), undated
- Folder 61: “So teach us to number our days” (Psalms 90:12), undated
- Folder 62: “Because He hast set His love upon me…” (Psalms 91:14), undated
- Folder 63: “He that planted the ear…” (Psalms 94:9), undated
- Folder 64: “Like as a father pitieth his children” (Psalms 103:13), undated
- Folder 65: “Oh that men would praise the Lord” (Psalms 107:8), undated
- Folder 66: “Whosoever is wise…” (Psalms 107:43), 1860 Thanksgiving
- Folder 67: “Whosoever is wise…” (Psalms 107:43), 1861 Thanksgiving
- Folder 68: “Whosoever is wise…” (Psalms 107:43), 1872 Thanksgiving
- Folder 69: “Whosoever is wise…” (Psalms 107:43), undated
- Folder 70: “Snares of Students,” “I will keep thy statutes” (Psalms 119:8), undated
- Folder 71: “Surely I will not come into the tabernacle” (Psalms 132: 3-5), 1865
- Folder 72: “My son, if thou wilt receive my words” (Proverbs 2:1-5), undated
- Folder 73: “Devise not evil against thy neighbor” (Proverbs 3:29), undated
- Folder 74: “The wise shall inherit glory” (Proverbs 3:35), undated
- Folder 75: “The path of the just is as the shining light” (Proverbs 4:18, 19), undated
- Folder 76: “The path of the just is as the shining light” (Proverbs 4:18, 19), undated
- Folder 77: “The Path of the Just, the way of the wicked” (Proverbs 4:18, 19), undated
- 1 card.
- Folder 78: “The path of the just is as the shining light” (Proverbs 4:18, 19), undated
- Folder 79: “The path of the just” (Proverbs 4:18, 19), undated
- One sheet.
- Folder 80: “They are all plain to him that understandeth” (Proverbs 8:9), undated
- Folder 81: “They are all plain to him that understandeth” (Proverbs 8:9), undated
- Folder 82: “He that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul” (Proverbs 8:36), undated
- Folder 83: “Thou shalt be wise for thyself” (Proverbs 9:12), undated
- Folder 84: The Liberal Soul. “There is that scattereth…” (Proverbs 11:24), undated
- Folder 85: “By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil” (Proverbs 16:6), ca. 1874
- Folder 86: “A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps” (Proverbs 16:9), undated
- Folder 87: “A man’s heart deviseth his way” (Proverbs 16:9), undated
- Folder 88: “Every way of man is right in his own eyes” (Proverbs 21:2), undated
- Folder 89: “Buy the Truth and Sell it Not” (Proverbs 23:23), undated
- Folder 90: “He that turneth away his ear” (Proverbs 28:9), undated
- Folder 91: “Even one sinner destroys” (Ecclesiastes 9:18), undated
- Folder 92: “Fear God and keep his commandments” (Ecclesiastes 12:13), undated
- Folder 93: “Fear God and keep his commandments” (Ecclesiastes 12:13), undated
- Folder 94: Balm in Gilead” (Jeremiah 8:22), undated
- Folder 95: “Come now, let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18), undated
- Folder 96: “When the enemy shall come” (Isaiah 59:19), undated
- Folder 97: “…friends and enemies of God” (Ezekiel 9:4), undated
- Folder 98: “Yet saith the home of Israel” (Ezekiel 18:25), undated
- Folder 99: “…stone that smote the image…” (Daniel 2:35), undated
- Folder 100: And he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven” (Daniel 4:35), undated
- Folder 101: “…the God in whose hand…” (Daniel 5:23), undated
- Folder 102: “And He shall come unto us as the rain unto the Earth” (Hosea 6:3), 1866 September 22
- Folder 103: “And He shall come unto us as the rain unto the Earth” (Hosea 6:3) (photocopy), 1866 September 22
- Folder 104: “O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself” (Hosea 13:9), undated
- Folder 105: “Evil in a city” (Amos 3:6), undated
- Folder 106: “What doth the Lord require of thee?” (Micah 6:8), undated
- See also in the "Religious Ideas and Thought sermon.
- Folder 107: “A son honoreth his father & a servant his master” (Malachi 1:6), undated
- Folder 108: “Discern between the righteous and the wicked” (Malachi 3:18), undated
- Subseries 2: New Testament Sermons, 1874-1875, 1877, 1869, 1881-1883, 1885, 1889, undated
- Box 2
- Folder 1: “And thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21), undated
- Folder 2: “Light of the World” (Matthew 5:14), undated
- Folder 3: “Light of the World” (Matthew 5:14), undated
- Folder 4: “Light of the World” (Matthew 5:14), undated
- Folder 5: “Let your light so shine before men” (Matthew 5:16), undated
- Folder 6: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law” (Matthew 5:17), undated
- Folder 7: “Lay not up for yourself treasures on earth” (Matthew 6:19), undated
- Folder 8: “Do Not Hoard Treasures” (Matthew 6:19-20), undated
- Folder 9: “You cannot serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24), undated
- Folder 10: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God” (Matthew 6:33), undated
- Folder 11: “Ask and It Shall Be Given, Seek…” (Matthew 7:7), undated
- Folder 12: “Ask & it shall be given unto you” (Matthew 7:7), undated
- Folder 13: “Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way” (Matthew 7:14), undated
- Folder 14: “Himself took our infirmities” (Matthew 8:17), undated
- Folder 15: “But the very hairs of your head are all numbered”, undated
- Folder 16: “But the very hairs of your head are all numbered” (Matthew 10:30), undated
- Folder 17: “Come unto me” (Matthew 11:25, 29-30), undated
- Folder 18: “Come unto me all ye that labor” (Matthew 11:28, 29, 30), undated
- One sheet.
- Folder 19: “But I say unto you that every idle word” (Matthew 12:36), undated
- Folder 20: “For whosoever shall do the will of my father” (Matthew 12:50)undated
- Folder 21: Parable of the Sowers (Matthew 13), undated
- Folder 22: “Where Gathered Together in My Name, there am I” (Matthew 18:20), undated
- Folder 23: “If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments” (Matthew 19:17), undated
- Folder 24: “Why stand ye here all the day idle?” (Matthew 20:6), undated
- Folder 25: “Go ye also into the Vineyards” (Matthew 20:7), undated
- Folder 26: “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God” (Matthew 22:37), undated
- Folder 27: “Love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matthew 22:39), undated
- Folder 28: “Love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matthew 22:39), undated
- Folder 29: “Thou hast been faithful over a few things” (Matthew 25:21), undated
- Folder 30: “Thou hast been faithful over a few things” (Matthew 25:21)
- Two pieces.
- Folder 31: “Then he which had received the one talent” (Matthew 25:24, 25), undated
- Folder 32: “And have no root in themselves” (Mark 4:17), undated
- Folder 33: “And have no root in themselves” (Mark 4:17), undated
- Folder 34: “For what shall it profit a man” (Mark 8:36), undated
- Folder 35: “But Jesus said, Forbid him not” (Mark 9:39), undated
- Folder 36: Institutions of Moses “For the hardness of your heart” (Mark 10:5), undated
- Folder 37: “Render to Caesar…” (Mark 12:17), undated
- Folder 38: “The Golden Rule” (Luke 6:31), undated
- Folder 39: “Every tree is known by his own fruit” (Luke 6:44), undated
- Folder 40: “Take heed, therefore, how ye hear” (Luke 8:18), undated
- Folder 41: “And he said to them all, if any man will come after me” (Luke 9:23), undated
- Folder 42: “And he said to them all, if any man will come after me” (Luke 9:23), undated
- Folder 43: “Take up the Cross and follow Me” (Luke 9:23) (part 2), undated
- Folder 44: “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it” (Luke 9:24), undated
- Folder 45: “Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of” (Luke 9:51-56), undated
- Folder 46: “…who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:29), undated
- Folder 47: “Thou art careful and troubled about many things. But one thing is needful.” (Luke 10:41-42), undated
- Folder 48: “Be ye ready” (Luke 12:40), undated
- Folder 49: “Many to Seek—Few to Enter” (Luke 13:24), undated
- Folder 50: “Jesus Received Sinners” (Luke 15:2), undated
- Folder 51: “Righteousness in Seeking Friends” (Luke 16:9), undated
- Folder 52: “If they hear not Moses & the prophets” (Luke 16:31), undated
- Folder 53: “The Kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21), undated
- Folder 54: “Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God” (Luke 18:17), undated
- Folder 55: Resurrection of Jesus (Luke 24), undated
- Folder 56: “The Lord is risen, indeed” (Luke 24:34), undated
- Folder 57: “But as many as received him, to them gave he power” (John 1:12), undated
- Folder 58: “And the Word was made flesh…” (John 1:14), undated
- Folder 59: “And the Word was made flesh” (John 1:14), undated
- Folder 60: "And there were set there six waterpots of stone” (John 2:6), undated
- Folder 61: “Thou art a teacher come from God” (John 3:2), undated
- Folder 62: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3), undated
- Folder 63: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3), undated
- Folder 64: “Light is come into the world” (John 3:19), undated
- Folder 65: “God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24), undated
- Folder 66: “God is a spirit” (John 4:24), undated
- Folder 67: “What shall we do, that we might work the works of God” (John 6:28, 29), undated
- Folder 68: “No man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw him” (John 6:44), undated
- Folder 69: “And we believe for sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son of the Living God” (John 6:69) ("Part First"), undated
- Folder 70: “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God” (John 6:69) ("Part Second"), undated
- Folder 71: “If any man will do his will” (John 7:17), undated
- Folder 72: “My sheep hear my voice” (John 10:27, 28), undated
- Folder 73: “Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died” (John 11:21), undated
- Folder 74: “What falleth into the ground abidith alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit” (John 12:24), undated
- Folder 75: “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth” (John 12:32), undated
- Folder 76: “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth” (John 12:32), undated
- Folder 77: “Because I live, ye shall live also” (John 14:19), undated
- Folder 78: “Inspiration” (John 14:26), undated
- Folder 79: “Peace I leave with you” (John 14:27), undated
- Folder 80: “Abide in me” (John 15:4), undated
- Folder 81: “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth” (John 15:6), undated
- Folder 82: “Greater love hath no man” (John 15:13), undated
- Folder 83: “It is expedient that I go away” (John 16:7), undated
- Folder 84: “And Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross” (John 20:19), undated
- Folder 85: “What is that to thee? Follow thou me” (John 21:22), undated
- Box 3
- Folder 1: “Neither is there salvation in any other” (Acts 4:12), undated
- Folder 2: “They had all things in common” (Acts 4:32), undated
- Folder 3: “Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized?” (Acts 10:47), undated
- Folder 4: “For as I walked by & beheld your devotions” (Acts 17:23), undated
- Folder 5: “And hath made of one blood all nations” (Acts 17:26), undated
- Folder 6: “And hath made of one blood all nations” (Acts 17:26), undated
- Folder 7: “And the times of this ignorance God winked at” (Acts 17:30), undated
- Folder 8: “He said to them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost?” (Acts 19:2), undated
- Folder 9: “A conscience void of offense toward God” (Acts 24:16), undated
- Folder 10: “Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian” (Acts 26:28), undated
- Folder 11: “Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost ye…” (Acts 26:28), undated
- Folder 12: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ” (Romans 1:16), undated
- Folder 13: “The Reprobate Mind” (Romans 1:28), undated
- Folder 14: “…to every man according to his deeds?” (Romans 2:6), undated
- Folder 15: “Thou therefore which teachest another” (Romans 2:21), undated
- Folder 16: “For what the law could not do in that it was weak” (Romans 8:3, 4), undated
- Folder 17: “For what the law could not do in that it was weak” (Romans 8:3, 4), undated
- Folder 18: “For what the law could not do in that it was weak” (Romans 8:3, 4), undated
- Folder 19: “That the righteousness of the law” (Romans 8:4), undated
- Folder 20: “For to be carnally minded is death” (Romans 8:6), undated
- Folder 21: “But to be spiritually minded is life and peace” (Romans 8:6), undated
- Folder 22: “So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God” (Romans 8:8), undated
- Folder 23: “The whole creation groaneth” (Romans 8:22), undated
- Folder 24: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” (Romans 8:35), undated
- Folder 25: “For who hath known the mind of the Lord?” (Romans 11:34), undated
- Folder 26: “Give an account of himself to God” (Romans 14:12), undated
- Folder 27: “So then everyone of us shall give account of himself” (Romans 14:12), undated
- Folder 28: “Therefore glorify God in your body” (I Corinthians 6:20), undated
- Folder 29: “If meat make my brother to offend…” (I Corinthians 8:13), undated
- Folder 30: “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth” (I Corinthians 10:12), undated
- Folder 31: “Do all to the glory of God” (I Corinthians 10:31), undated
- Folder 32: “Whether therefore ye eat or drink” (I Corinthians 10:31), undated
- Folder 33: “Whether therefore ye eat or drink” (I Corinthians 10:31), undated
- Folder 34: “Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit” (I Corinthians 12:4), undated
- Folder 35: “Therefore my beloved brethren be ye steadfast” (I Corinthians 15:58), undated
- Folder 36: “For we are not ignorant of his devices” (II Corinthians 2:11), undated
- Folder 37: “By manifestation of the truth” (II Corinthians 4:2), undated
- Folder 38: “But we have this treasure” (II Corinthians 4:7), undated
- Copied.
- Folder 39: “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels” (II Corinthians 4:7), undated
- Folder 40: “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels” (II Corinthians 4:7), undated
- Folder 41: “Yet of myself I will not glory” (II Corinthians 12:5), undated
- Folder 42: “For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse” (Galatians 3:10), undated
- Folder 43: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law” (Galatians 3:13), undated
- Folder 44: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law” (Galatians 3:13), undated
- Folder 45: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering” (Galatians 5:22-23), undated
- Folder 46: “And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh” (Galatians 5:24), undated
- Folder 47: “Bear ye one another’s burdens” (Galatians 6:2), undated
- Folder 48: “Each has his own Burden” (Galatians 6:5), undated
- Folder 49: “But God forbid that I should Glory…” (Galatians 6:14), undated
- Folder 50: “But God forbid that I should Glory…” (Galatians 6:14), undated
- Folder 51: God’s Providential Government “Who worketh all things” (Ephesians 1:11), undated
- Folder 52: “And you hath he quickened” (Ephesians 2:1), undated
- Folder 53: “Without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12), undated
- Folder 54: “Without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12), undated
- Folder 55: “Without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12), undated
- Folder 56: “So the Church May Know God’s Wisdom” (Ephesians 3:10), undated
- Folder 57: “Awake from Sleep and Death” (Ephesians 5:14), undated
- Folder 58: “Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest” (Ephesians 5:14), 1869
- Folder 59: “And ye fathers, provoke not your children” (Ephesians 6:4), undated
- Folder 60: “But bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4), undated
- Folder 61: “Let this mind be in you” (Philippians 2:5), undated
- Folder 62: “For our conversation is in Heaven” (Philippians 3:20), undated
- Folder 63: “Our conversation is in heaven” (Philippians 3:20), undated
- Folder 64: “Set your affection on things above” (Colossians 3:2), undated
- Folder 65: “Set your affection on things above” (Colossians 3:2), undated
- One card.
- Folder 66: “Set your affection on things above” (Colossians 3:2), undated
- One card.
- Folder 67: “For if we believe that Jesus died & rose again” (I Thessalonians 4:14), undated
- Folder 68: “Jesus came to save sinners” (I Timothy 1:15), undated
- Folder 69: “This is a faithful saying” (I Timothy 1:15), undated
- Folder 70: “Who will have all men to be saved” (I Timothy 2:4), undated
- Folder 71: “But she that liveth in pleasure is dead” (I Timothy 5:6), undated
- Folder 72: “Godliness with contentment” (I Timothy 6:6), undated
- Folder 73: “Godliness with contentment is great gain” (I Timothy 6:6), undated
- Folder 74: “The rich fall into temptation” (I Timothy 6:9), undated
- Folder 75: The common figure [making full proof of thy ministry] (II Timothy 4:[5], 7, 8), undated
- Folder 76: “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God” (Hebrews 4:9), undated
- Folder 77: “Faith without Wavering” (Hebrews 4:14), undated
- Folder 78: “Faith without Wavering” (Hebrews 4:14), undated
- Folder 79: “We have not a high priest” (Hebrews 4:15), undated
- Folder 80: “Hope as an anchor of the soul” (Hebrews 6:19), undated
- Folder 81: “Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul” (Hebrews 6:19), undated
- Folder 82: “Without faith” (Hebrews 11:6), undated
- Folder 83: “The Pilgrim Fathers” (Hebrews 11:13), undated
- Folder 84: “Character of Moses” (Hebrews 11:27), undated
- Folder 85: “For he endured…” (Hebrews 11:27), undated
- Folder 86: “For he endured, as seeing him who is invisible” (Hebrews 11:27), undated
- Folder 87: “For he endured as seeing him who is invisible” (Hebrews 11:27), undated
- Sermon by Z.B.?
- Folder 88: “…who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright” (Hebrews 12:16), undated
- Folder 89: “Brotherly Love” (Hebrews 13:1), undated
- Folder 90: “Pure religion…” (James 1:27), undated
- Folder 91: “Keep the whole law” (James 2:10), undated
- Folder 92: “To do Good” (James 4:17), undated
- Folder 93: “Be patient” (James 5:7), undated
- Folder 94: “Whom having not seen, ye love” (I Peter 1:8), undated
- Folder 95: “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers & pilgrims” (I Peter 2:11), undated
- Folder 96: “Use hospitality one to another without grudging” (I Peter 4:9), undated
- Folder 97: “He careth for you” (I Peter 5:7), undated
- Folder 98: “Be sober, be vigilant” (I Peter 5:8), undated
- Folder 99: “Wherefore the rather, brethren give diligence” (II Peter 1:10), undated
- Folder 100: “For we have not followed…” (II Peter 1:16), undated
- Folder 101: “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved” (II Peter 3:11), undated
- Folder 102: “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved” (II Peter 3:11), undated
- Folder 103: “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved” (II Peter 3:11), undated
- Folder 104: “If we say that we have no sin” (I John 1:8), undated
- Folder 105: “Love not the World” (I John 2:16), undated
- Likely from I John 2:15.
- Folder 106: “And every man that hath hope in him purifieth himself” (I John 3:3), undated
- Folder 107: “His commandments are not grievous” (I John 5:3), undated
- Folder 108: “And his commandments are not grievous” (I John 5:3), undated
- Folder 109: “And his commandments are not grievous” (I John 5:3) (Second Part), undated
- Folder 110: “Confidence that we have in Him” (I John 5:14), undated
- Folder 111: “Contend Earnestly for the Faith” (Jude [1]:3), undated
- Folder 112: “Contend Earnestly for the Faith” (Jude [1]:3), undated
- Folder 113: “Keep yourselves in the love of God” (Jude [1]:21), undated
- Folder 114: “Behold I stand” (Revelation 3:20), undated
- One side of a card.
- Folder 115: “Behold I stand at the door & knock” (Revelation 3:20), undated
- Folder 116: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock” (Revelations 3:20), undated
- Folder 117: “Behold …,” “Addressed to the 7 churches. Applicable to all” (Revelation 3:20), undated
- Two cards.
- Folder 118: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me” (Revelation 3:21), undated
- Folder 119: “Sit with me in my throne” (Revelation 3:21), undated
- Folder 120: “Sit with me in my throne” (Revelation 3:21), undated
- Subseries 3: Baccalaureate Sermons, ca. 1870, 1874-1875, 1877, 1881-1883, 1885-1889, undated
- Box 4
- Folder 1: “Whosoever will be great among you” (Parable of the Labourers), (Matthew 20:26), undated
- Folder 2: Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world” (II Timothy 4:10), ca. 1870
- Folder 3: “Keep thy heart with all diligence” (Proverbs 4:23), ca. 1874 August 5
- Folder 4: “Say not then, what is the cause that the former days were better than these” (Ecclesiastes 7:10), ca. 1875 August 1
- Folder 5: “Except a corn of wheat fall into ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit” (John 12:24), ca. 1877
- Folder 6: “Religion and the State”, 1880
- Following page 61, attached to "My Young Friends of the Graduating Classes."
- Folder 7: “The Conditions of a Successful Life” (Proverbs 16:9), ca. 1881
- Folder 8: “The Ministry of Pain” (Romans 8:22), ca. 1882
- Folder 9: “Providential Aspects of the Oberlin Enterprise” (Psalms 127:1), ca. 1883 July 1
- Folder 10: “Personal Power and its Opportunities” (Matthew 25:40: “His blood be on us and on our children”), 1885 July
- Folder 11: “The Golden Rule and the Labor Question” (Matthew 7:12), ca. 1886 June 27
- Folder 12: “The Building of Character of Life” (Hebrews 3:4), ca. 1887
- Folder 13: “Sowing and Reaping” (Psalms 126:6), 1888 June 24
- Typed and newspaper copy.
- Folder 14: “Sowing and Reaping” (Psalms 126:6), 1888 June 24
- Typed and newspaper copy.
- Folder 15: “The Divine Personality” (Psalms 18:31), ca. 1869, 1889
- Folder 16: “The Divine Personality” (Psalms 18:31) article manuscript, 1889 June 23
- Folder 17: “The Personal Nature and Character of God” (Psalms 18:31), 1889
- Oberlin Weekly News printed entire sermon, which is the same as a sermon given in 1869
- Series X: Miscellaneous Printed Writings by James Harris Fairchild, 1852-1897
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Commencement addresses (newspaper clippings), 1878-1888
- Folder 2: Pamphlets of various addresses, 1852-1897
- Folder 3: Newspaper articles by Fairchild (photocopies), 1886-1888
- Series XI: Writings about James Harris Fairchild, 1883-1910, 1966, undated
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Essay by John Giteau Welch Cowles (typescript), undated
- Folder 2: Tribute by Judson Smith (typescript), undated
- Folder 3: Tribute by Reverend C.J. Ryder (typescript), 1902
- Folder 4: Various printed writings and clippings, 1883-1910, 1966
- Folder 5: Various printed writings and clippings, 1883-1910, 1966
- Series XII: Photographs, 1833-1838, 1863, undated
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Portrait album (albumen prints), 1863
- Folder 2: Photograph (second generation) of Fairchild's daughters, undated
- Box 2
- Item 1: Photograph album presented to Nancy Harris Fairchild on her golden wedding anniversary, 1863
- Item 2: Mary Kellogg Fairchild autograph album, 1835-ca. 1840
- Filed in Series XII, Box 1.
- Series XIII: Miscellaneous Fairchild Correspondence (later accession), 1881, 1887-1889
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1881, 1887-1889
- Folder 2: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1881, 1887-1889
- Folder 3: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1881, 1887-1889
- Folder 4: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1881, 1887-1889
- Folder 5: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1881, 1887-1889
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Series I: Correspondence (Calendared), 1852-1903, undated],
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Series II: Correspondence (Uncalendared), 1819-1900, undated],
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Series III: Courtship Correspondence of James Harris Fairchild and Mary Fletcher Kellogg (typescript), 1838-1841],
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Series IV: Miscellaneous Institutional Records Kept by James Harris Fairchild, ca. 1833-1840, 1854-1884],
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Series V: Miscellaneous Non-Institutional Records Kept by James Harris Fairchild, 1771-1909, 1926, undated],
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Series VI: Teaching Files of James Harris Fairchild, 1862-1882, undated],
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Series VII: Travel Diaries, 1870-1871, 1884],
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Series VIII: Writings by James Harris Fairchild, 1852-1910, undated],
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Series IX: Sermons, 1860-1870, 1874-1875, 1877, 1880-1883, 1889, undated],
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Series X: Miscellaneous Printed Writings by James Harris Fairchild, 1852-1897],
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Series XI: Writings about James Harris Fairchild, 1883-1910, 1966, undated],
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Series XII: Photographs, 1833-1838, 1863, undated],
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Series XIII: Miscellaneous Fairchild Correspondence (later accession), 1881, 1887-1889],
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