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George Frederick Wright Papers

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Appointment Books

Biographical File

Contracts and Agreements

Correspondence Files

Diaries

Geological Files

Ministerial Files

Miscellaneous Materials

Newspaper Clippings

Printed Matter

Sermons and Addresses

Student Essays

Theological Files

Topical Files

Writings

Photographs



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George Frederick Wright Papers, 1811-1998 | Oberlin College Archives

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Predominant Dates:1850-1921

ID: RG 30/021

Primary Creator: Wright, George Frederick (1838-1921)

Extent: 22.64 Linear Feet

Arrangement:

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

Series I. Appointment Books, 1897, 1899 (0.05 l.f.)

Includes two appointment books from 1897 and two from 1899. One of the 1897 books belonged to G.F. Wright’s son, Frederick B. Wright.

Series II. Biographical File, 1868-1968, n.d. (0.1 l.f.)

This series includes biographical information and obituaries for Wright, passports, and the itinerary of Wright’s 1900-01 trip, diplomas and certificates, and an undated bibliography of some of Wright’s writings. The series also includes genealogical material concerning the Wright and Day families. The collection does not include a diploma for Wright’s 1877 honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree from Drury College in Springfield, Missouri.

Series III. Contracts and Agreements, 1879-1920 (0.05 l.f.)

The contracts and agreements are arranged in two subseries. The first, G.F. Wright Publications, contains contracts and agreements concerning works by Wright. The second, Bibliotheca Sacra Publications, includes contracts for works by other authors that were published by Bibliotheca Sacra. These contracts and agreements cover only a small number of G.F. Wright and Bibliotheca Sacra publications.

Series IV. Correspondence Files, 1811-1921, n.d. (10.55 l.f.)

The correspondence is divided into four subseries: 1. Calendared Correspondence, 2. Incoming Letters (not calendared), 3. Miscellaneous Family Letters, and 4. Select Letters in the R.B. Hayes Library. Subseries 1 consists of primarily incoming correspondence, 1850-1921, described in Victor V. Lytle’s seven-volume calendar and index (1953-54). Subseries 2 consists of G.F. Wright correspondence, 1876-1920, that was not included in Lytle’s calendar. Most of these letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent; the remainder are chronological. Subseries 3 is miscellaneous Wright Family correspondence and is in two groupings. The first consists of family correspondence, 1811-1869. These letters were calendared, and a copy of the calendar is found in the first folder. The second is letters dated 1907-1915 relating to G.F. Wright’s children’s membership in Second Congregational Church in Oberlin. An additional letter to Second Congregational Church concerns Wright’s book on the history of Lorain County. Subseries 4 contains photocopies of selected letters held by the Rutherford B. Hayes Library of Wright and his daughter Helen; the subjects of these 1913-14 letters include Records of the Past and the possibility of Wright returning to the Middle East to study the Jordan River Valley and the Dead Sea. Also included are photocopies of relevant pages from the indexes to the correspondence of Birchard Austin Hayes, Webb Cook Hayes, and Mary Miller Hayes. Additional correspondence is located with the genealogical material in Series II.

Series V. Diaries, 1875, 1877, 1879 (0.05 l.f.)

The diaries consist of three volumes that document Wright’s work as a minister in Andover, Massachusetts, and also include notes on geological observations and readings.

Series VI. Geological Files, 1877-1903, n.d. (0.8 l.f. + 4 vol.)

These include notebooks of Wright’s geological observations taken during his travels as well as loose notes on his travels and readings. His notebooks cover his work for the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Geological Survey as well as his trips to study glacial formations in Alaska, Greenland, Europe, and Asia. Also included in these files are lectures and 1907 exam questions for his glacial geology course at Oberlin College. Additional material relating to Wright’s geological studies is in his writings in Series XV.

Series VII. Ministerial Files, 1863-1881, n.d. (0.05 l.f. + 1 vol.)

Consists of material relating to his posts as a Congregational minister in Bakersfield, Vermont, and Andover, Massachusetts, including a copy of an address by Rev. Eldridge Mix given at Wright’s 1866 installation in Bakersfield. Also included is a register for the Free Church in Andover, covering 1872-1881. Wright’s sermons are in Series XI. Sermons and Addresses.

Series VIII. Miscellaneous Materials, 1817-1912, n.d. (0.2 l.f. + 1 vol.)

This series contains a variety of materials, including an index compiled by Wright on his readings, c. 1868; foreign language material from Wright’s 1900-01 trip; a New Testament given to Wright at the time of his enlistment in 1861; a list of students taught by Wright in an unidentified school; a grade book (c. 1856) from the Select School in Fairhaven, Vermont; a summary of church membership by county in New Connecticut (Ohio); a report about the Ohio Centennial Forestry Exhibit; miscellaneous notes covering topics such as Fort George and the population of Palestine; bills and receipts, 1886-1912, n.d.; a blueprint of a mill from the Noye Manufacturing Company; and an 1894 map of the Johnson Company’s property in Lorain County. The New Testament has a tintype of an unidentified woman pasted inside the cover. Included with the Oriental language material is a list in English of the participants in a welcome meeting for Wright, which took place at Maebash, Japan, March 20, 1900.

Series IX. Newspaper Clippings, 1879-1919, n.d. (3.75 l.f.)

Clippings of articles about Wright, including reviews of his books and accounts of lectures. In addition, there are some clippings of articles that Wright wrote. Other clippings concern subjects of interest to Wright and have been labeled by subject.

Series X. Printed Matter, 1860, 1886-1917, 1919, n.d. (0.4 l.f.)

Consists primarily of lecture advertisements and programs for events (1886-1917) in which Wright participated. Additional material includes temperance related material, 1905-1916, and information on excursions that Wright and Charles Dutton (1870-1959, A.B. 1893), a Cleveland teacher, led for geology classes from Oberlin College and Cleveland high schools. Also included is material from meetings of the Appalachian Mountain Club and the Congregational Club of Cleveland.

Series XI. Sermons and Addresses, 1860-1918, n.d. (2.0 l.f.)

These include sermons Wright gave during his time as an active minister and later as a visiting preacher at various churches, primarily in Ohio. The sermons include Wright’s reflections on particular texts and cover subjects such as the immortality of God and divine revelation. Wright numbered his sermons and recorded the dates and places where he gave them and his addresses. A bound volume contains skeletons of the sermons Wright preached at the Gustavus revival of 1860-61; this volume also includes records for the students Wright taught in Gustavus, in 1860. The addresses document Wright’s career as a well-known lecturer and include addresses about geological subjects and about Wright’s travels, particularly in Asia. The sermons and addresses are arranged chronologically; sermons that Wright gave in more than one church are filed under the earliest date noted. Undated material is arranged alphabetically at the end.

Series XII. Student Essays, 1854-1862, n.d. (0.1 l.f.)

Wright wrote the majority of these essays while he was a student at Oberlin College and Oberlin Theological Seminary; a few of the essays date from his time at the Castleton Seminary in Vermont. They cover such topics as China, intellectual faculties, and providence. They are arranged chronologically, with undated material arranged by title at the end.

Series XIII. Theological Files, 1893, n.d. (0.3 l.f. + 17 vol.)

Includes lectures, lecture notes, and research notes relating to Wright’s teaching and writings. Additional material from Wright’s theological work is found in Series XI. Sermons and Addresses and in Series XV. Writings.

Series XIV. Topical Files, 1866-67, 1875-77, 1881, 1885, 1888-97, 1919-20, n.d.  (0.4 l.f.)

Includes files on specific topics including evolution, the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, and the history of Sunday Schools in Ohio. The file on Judge Charles C. Baldwin contains writings by Baldwin and biographical information that was used by Wright for a memorial article on Baldwin; this file also includes his address concerning the Cleveland Professorship presented at the 1892 annual dinner of Cleveland alumni of Oberlin College and a review of Wright’s Man and the Glacial Period with notes by Baldwin. Another file includes research notes and newspaper clippings about Z. Swift Holbrook who was a special instructor on Christian Sociology at Oberlin College from 1894-96. There was an attack on Holbrook’s character made in connection to an 1895 property dispute in Chicago, and the file includes clippings about the dispute as well as Wright’s letters to the Cleveland Plain Dealer in Holbrook’s defense. The material about Oberlin College includes Wright’s notes on the College’s history, an undated “General Scheme for the Reorganization of Oberlin University,” and a 1919 statement from New York alumni concerning the organization of an alumni association. Wright’s articles and lectures about the College may be found in Series XI. Sermons and Addresses and in Series XV. Writings.

Series XV. Writings, 1871-1998, n.d. (1.6 l.f.)

Arranged in two subseries: 1. Writings by George Frederick Wright, and 2. Writings by other authors. The subjects of Wright’s writings include geology and theological issues, as well as accounts of his travels. Subseries 1 is arranged alphabetically by title and includes primarily manuscript or typescript copies as well as notes for a few works. Many of Wright’s works are not represented; see the appended list for the titles included here. Subseries 2 is arranged alphabetically by author.

Series XVI. Photographs, 1849, 1899, n.d. (0.99 l.f.)

Photographs of geological sites near New Comerstown, Ohio, Chicago, Illinois, and Scottsbluff, Nebraska. An additional photograph of an unidentified site was originally with a manuscript of “Geologic Time” by C.B. Shedd (1846-1935, A.B. 1868). Three photographs of fossils were given to Wright by Sam Huston of Stubenville, Ohio. Also included is a photograph of botanist and Christian Darwinist Asa Gray, his wife Jane Loring Gray, and third person identified simply as Professor Hooker. An 1899 photograph shows Wright on an excursion with unidentified students. Series VIII. Miscellaneous Materials includes a tintype of an unidentified woman that is pasted inside the front cover of a New Testament.  Five cased images dating from about 1849 were received in 2015.  These are three hand-tinted ambrotypes and two daguerreotypes, including a portrait of William W. Wright.  All but one of these portraits are of unidentified individuals.

Date Acquired: 09/17/1968. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Congregational churches--Clergy--Sources, Evolution--Religious aspects--Christianity--Sources, Geology--United States--Sources, Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, 1858--Sources, Oberlin College--Graduate School of Theology--History--Sources, Theology--Sources, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources, Wright, G. Frederick (George Frederick), 1838-1921--Sources

Forms of Material: appointment books, diaries, field notes, lecture notes, manuscripts, photographs--ambrotypes, photographs--daguerreotypes, photographs - photographic prints, photographs - tintypes, publications, records (documents), sermons, speeches

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The papers of George Frederick Wright relate to his work as a minister, theology professor, geologist, and literary writer. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, sermons, and addresses, the bulk of which spans the period from Wright’s young adulthood through his death in 1921. Additional material includes notes, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous printed material, and photographs. The collection also includes correspondence and genealogical information of the Wright family.

The papers reflect Wright’s involvement in a number of areas. There is documentation of his early thinking about Darwin’s theory of evolution beginning in the late 1860s as well as of his changing views as he turned toward fundamentalist ideas at the end of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century. Wright’s papers also reflect his work investigating geological, particularly glacial, formations. But most significant is the documentation of Wright’s work bringing science and theology together by reconciling scientific theories, notably evolution, with biblical accounts. The collection also documents other aspects of Wright’s life, including his early career as a Congregational minister in Vermont and Massachusetts, 1862-1881.

Wright’s geological investigations are documented by his field notes as well as by his writings about his findings. Of particular interest in his geological notes are approximately 20 notebooks recording his work from 1881 to 1884 surveying the glacial drift border for the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Geological Survey. Other notebooks document his study of the Muir Glacier in Alaska in 1886, his 1894 study of the glaciers of Greenland, and the glacial formations he studied on a voyage across Asia and Europe in 1900-1901. Additional field notes contain observations about the geology of parts of the United States, particularly New England.

Wright’s life-long involvement in religious matters is well represented. The sermons he wrote from 1862 to 1881 provide most of the documentation of Wright’s early career as a Congregational minister. Additional material from this time, located in Series VII. Ministerial Files, includes a register from the Free Church in Andover, Massachusetts, and letters and notes about church membership in Andover and in Bakersfield, Vermont. Although he gave up active ministry in 1881 to take a post at the Oberlin Theological Seminary, he frequently served as a visiting minister at area churches; these later sermons are also in Series XI. Sermons and Addresses.

Wright’s work as a professor at the Oberlin Theological Seminary included the teaching of courses on a number of subjects. As Professor of New Testament Language and Literature from 1881 to1892 Wright taught courses on the gospels, the epistles, textual criticism, and the theology of the New Testament. From 1892 to 1907, as Professor of the Harmony of Science and Revelation, Wright’s courses included apologetics, the origin and antiquity of the human race, and inductive reasoning. Lectures and notes for his theology courses are in Series XIII. Theological Files. Many of Wright’s lectures and notes were written in notebooks, and a few of these include lists (c. 1883-85) of student names. His students included Edward Increase Bosworth (1861-1927, B.D. 1886) who succeeded Wright as Professor of New Testament Language and Literature and later served as dean of the Theological Seminary.

As Professor of the Harmony of Science and Revelation, Wright taught a course on glacial geology in the College in addition to his theology courses. Notes and lectures for this course are in Series VI. Geological Files. This series also includes exam questions from his 1907 geology course. There is no other material related to a specific year or term for any of his courses, which leaves a considerable gap in the record of his teaching.

As a professor and alumnus, Wright’s interest in Oberlin continued after his time as a student. He wrote a number of articles about the College and his experiences as a student from 1855 to 1862. The most thorough of these articles was “Oberlin College” written for New England Magazine in 1900; copies of this article are in the printed writings in Series XV. An article titled “Significant Events of the Seventy-Five Years” and an address titled “Oberlin–the Past, the Present, and the Future” from 1898 reflect on Oberlin’s first seventy-five years. The file on Oberlin College in Series XIV. includes Wright’s research notes about Oberlin, an undated “General Scheme for the Reorganization of Oberlin University,” and a 1919 statement concerning the organization of an alumni association.

There is little documentation of Wright’s personal life in these papers. The collection does not provide any detail about his marriages or his relationship with his children. Series IV. Correspondence Files includes personal letters, as well as correspondence related to his theological and geological work. Wright’s interest in the temperance movement is illustrated by printed material, 1907-1916, in Series X. Wright’s student days are documented in the correspondence in Series IV. and by the essays in Series XII. which he wrote while a student at Castleton Seminary (1854), Oberlin College (1855-1859), and Oberlin Theological Seminary (1859-1862). Of special interest in his student essays are a critique of the Phi Delta Society’s exercises of September 22, 1858, and “The Doxology in Long Metre” which Wright read as part of the exercises for the fifteenth anniversary of the Theological Society at Oberlin College, August 15, 1860.

Material relating to the Wright family and to the family of Wright’s first wife, Hulda Maria Day, may be found in the genealogical material in Series II. Biographical Files. Other than one letter to Wright from his cousin Sarah A. Whipple, this material appears to have been collected by Wright’s daughters Helen and Etta Maria. The collection also contains letters (1811-1915) written and received by Wright’s parents, Walter and Mary Wright, and other relatives including his uncles Ira Wright and William Wright. This correspondence, found in Series IV. Subseries 3, is mostly concerned with family news such as marriages and deaths but also includes some references to church matters. In addition, an 1897 appointment book in Series I. belonged to Wright’s son Frederick, and Series XV. Subseries 2 includes essays written by Wright’s cousin Grove Wright.

The collection also contains information about Wright’s travels to Asia, Europe, Greenland, and Alaska. While the chief purpose behind these trips was to study glacial formations, Wright also used his experiences abroad as the subject of addresses and writings aimed at non-scientific audiences. The addresses in Series XI. and writings in Series XV. include these popular addresses and articles, as well as lectures and writings describing his scientific findings. Wright’s correspondence, particularly his letters to his children in Subseries 1 of Series IV., also provides accounts of his activities abroad. The itinerary for his 1900-01 trip through Asia and Europe and his passports are in Series II. Biographical Files. Series VIII. Miscellaneous Files contains foreign language material, primarily Oriental languages, also dating from the 1900-01 trip. Series IX. includes numerous newspaper clippings about the shipwreck of the Miranda, which ended his 1894 trip to Greenland.

Wright’s brief military service during the Civil War is documented in writings and addresses. Noteworthy is a memorial oration given May 30, 1902, in Wellington, Ohio. In addition to considering the lasting effects of the Civil War on the United States, the address briefly recounts his experience as a witness to the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue in September 1858 and as a volunteer in the Union Army in 1861. The correspondence Wright received while he was in the army in 1861 as well as later correspondence from former classmates serving in the army provide additional accounts of Civil War experiences. The collection also includes a typescript copy of the diary of William W. Parmenter (A.B. 1861) who died in a Confederate prison camp in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 3, 1861; this copy of Parmenter’s diary is in Series XV. Writings.

The collection does not include much material related to Wright’s editorial work for Bibliotheca Sacra (1883-1921) and Records of the Past (1902-1914). Information about this area of Wright’s life may be gleaned from correspondence in Series IV. Some additional material relating to Bibliotheca Sacra may be found in Series III. Contracts and Agreements and in an outline of Rev. Albert H. Plumb’s The New Gospel for Humanity which is in Series XIII. Theological Files. Another weakness in these papers is the lack of documentation of Wright’s role as a local historian and compiler of the 1916 two-volume work, A Standard History of Lorain County.

The collection is arranged in sixteen series:

I. Appointment Books, 1897, 1899

II. Biographical Files, 1868-1968, n.d.

III. Contracts and Agreements, 1879-1920

          Subseries 1. G.F.W. publications, 1879-1916

          Subseries 2. Bibliotheca Sacra, 1912-1920

IV. Correspondence Files, 1811-1921, n.d.

          Subseries 1. Calendared 1850-1921, n.d.

          Subseries 2. Incoming Letters (not calendared), 1876-1915, n.d.

          Subseries 3. Miscellaneous Family Letters, 1811-1915

          Subseries 4. Select Letters in the R. B. Hayes Library, 1913-1914

V. Diaries, 1875, 1877, 1879

VI. Geological Files, 1877-1903, n.d.

VII. Ministerial Files, 1863-1881, n.d.

VIII. Miscellaneous Materials, 1817-1912, n.d.

IX. Newspaper Clippings

X. Printed Matter, 1860, 1886-1917, 1919, n.d.

XI. Sermons and Addresses, 1860-1918, n.d.

XII. Student Essays, 1854-1862, n.d.

XIII. Theological Files, 1893, n.d.

XIV. Topical Files, 1866-1867, 1875-1877, 1881, 1885, 1888-1897, 1919-1920, n.d.

XV. Writings, 1871-1998

          Subseries 1. Writings by George Frederick Wright

          Subseries 2. Writings by other authors

XVI. Photographs, 1849, 1899, n.d.

Collection Historical Note

A clergyman, amateur geologist, and theology professor, George Frederick Wright was born in Whitehall, New York, on January 22, 1838. His parents, Walter and Mary Peabody Colburn Wright, were farmers. The Wrights lived on the edge of the “Burned-over District” of upstate New York, known for its evangelistic fever. Young Wright doubtless came to know about the vagaries of spiritualism, and he experienced a pious upbringing. His family’s interest in Oberlin College and Charles Grandison Finney made his eventual attendance at Oberlin inevitable. Oberlin’s founders and trustees of the Institute, John J. Shipherd (d. 1844) and Philo P. Stewart (d. 1868), were from towns in the vicinity of Whitehall. According to Wright’s autobiographical account, their influence led Wright’s father and uncle William Wright to join the early supporters of Oberlin College. Wright’s three brothers and two sisters, as well as several of his cousins, all attended Oberlin.

After attending country schools and the Castleton Seminary in Castleton, Vermont, Wright entered the senior class in Oberlin’s Preparatory Department in 1855. His classmates included Major John Wesley Powell, Emory Upton, and Elisha Gray. He, like many students at the time, supported his education by teaching school during the winter vacations. In his four years as an undergraduate student, he taught at several district schools around Ohio, in Franklin, Medina, Fayette, and Belmont Counties. Wright graduated from Oberlin College with an A.B. degree in 1859.

Wright subsequently enrolled in the Theological Seminary to study with Reverends Charles G. Finney, John Morgan, and Henry E. Peck. His studies were interrupted by the Civil War, however. In April 1861, Wright was among the first hundred Oberlin students to volunteer; these students formed Company C of the Seventh Regiment of Ohio Volunteers. Wright was invalided home that summer after contracting pneumonia, and he returned to Oberlin, ultimately receiving his theological degree in 1862.

Wright served as a Congregational pastor for nineteen years from 1862 to 1881. His first church was in Bakersfield, Vermont, where he served from 1862 to 1872. It was during his time in Vermont that Wright developed a strong interest in glacial deposits. He left Bakersfield for the Free Church in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1872 and was pastor there until 1881.

Wright returned to the Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1881 as Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, replacing his former professor John Morgan who had retired one year earlier. In 1892 he was named Professor of the Harmony of Science and Revelation. This professorship, also known as the Cleveland Professorship, was specially endowed for Wright by alumni living in the Cleveland area. This position permitted Wright to teach a geology course in the College, in addition to his courses in the Theological Seminary, and also allowed him to devote part of each year to research. He became Professor Emeritus upon his retirement in 1907. During his retirement Wright gained a reputation as a local historian.

Wright’s first article “Ground of Confidence in Inductive Reasoning,” published in 1871, brought him to the attention of Harvard University botanist and Christian Darwinist Asa Gray (1810-1888). With Gray’s encouragement, Wright took on the task of reconciling the theory of evolution with Christian beliefs and thus joined the ranks of those known as Christian Darwinists.

Wright’s early writings advanced his reputation in scholarly circles as an evolutionist. In later years, however, he became a significant figure in fundamentalist circles. His shift toward fundamentalism came about in reaction to the growing trend of biblical criticism. Wright was a staunch defender of the infallibility of the Bible, and much of his later work was devoted to using scientific evidence to verify biblical accounts. Of his views Ronald L. Numbers writes:

<p style="margin-left:.5in;"> Although Wright never subscribed to a purely naturalistic form of Darwinism, and his final views on human evolution remain obscure, it is clear that he revised his opinions substantially. Most significantly, he gave up a relatively uniformitarian view of Darwinian evolution for a catastrophist theory of paroxysmal evolution, a switch he justified with frequent reference to Darwin’s mistakes and to the even more unforgivable errors of his followers. During his last years Wright unashamedly invoked miraculous acts of creation and felt ill at ease when people called him an “evolutionist.” (p. 644)

Wright’s long association with the respected theological journal Bibliotheca Sacra began in 1875 with the publication of a series of articles on evolution. While in Andover, Massachusetts, Wright worked as an assistant to editor Edwards A. Park, and, upon Park’s retirement in 1883, Wright took over as editor, a position he held until his death in 1921. With Wright as editor, the publication of Bibliotheca Sacra moved from Andover to Oberlin.

Although Wright’s formal scientific training was limited to his undergraduate courses at Oberlin, he continued to study geology throughout his life. During his years as an active minister, Wright’s geological interests became focused on the study of glacial deposits. His theory that gravel ridges in New England were the result of glacial deposits brought him to the attention of geologists. He soon became a respected member of scientific circles, and in 1881 Wright, with Henry Carvill Lewis (1853-1888), was asked to survey the glacial drift border in Pennsylvania as part of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania. He continued this survey work independently, and later as part of the United States Geological Survey, to include Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois.

Wright’s best-known geological work was The Ice Age in North America, and Its Bearings Upon the Antiquity of Man, published in 1889 by D. Appleton and Company. This well-received book, which was largely based upon his 1887 Lowell Institute lecture series, went through six editions. The positive reception led Wright to publish a new book in 1892. Man and the Glacial Period (also published by D. Appleton and Company) was essentially a condensed version of The Ice Age in North America with the addition of some new data. Unlike the earlier work, however, Man and the Glacial Period was met with attacks by a number of geologists who disagreed with Wright’s theory of a single Ice Age and questioned his scientific accuracy. Despite the fact that many geologists took his side in the debate, Wright lost much of his sense of belonging to the geological community and began to focus less of his time on geological matters and more on his theological studies.

While teaching at the Oberlin Theological Seminary, Wright devoted vacation periods to continuing his geological studies. In addition to examining geological formations across the United States, he traveled to Alaska in 1886 and Greenland in 1894 to study their glaciers. During his 1886 trip, Wright became the first person to study the Muir Glacier in Alaska. He also visited Europe several times between 1892 and 1908 to see archaeological sites and glacial phenomena. His most ambitious voyage was a 1900-01 trip across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe with his son, Frederick B. Wright, which came about from his desire for firsthand observation of geological conditions.

His geological interests expanded to include archaeology. He and his son, Frederick B. Wright, edited the archaeology journal Records of the Past, from its creation in 1901 until its 1914 merger with Art and Archaeology. During his retirement, he was president of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1907-19, and he was active in efforts to preserve prehistoric earthworks.

Wright was a prolific writer and a popular lecturer. He published sixteen books and nearly six hundred articles; during the last years of his life he averaged one article a month. Wright was invited three times to give lecture series at the Lowell Institute in Boston. These lecture series were “The Ice Age in North America” (1887), “The Antiquity and Origin of the Human Race” (1892), and “The Scientific Aspects of Christian Evidences” (1896). He also lectured in Japan at the beginning of his 1900-01 trip across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

He was honored in both theological and geological circles. Wright received two honorary degrees in 1887: the degree of Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) from Brown University and Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from Drury College in Springfield, Missouri. He was named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 1890.

Throughout his many years living in Oberlin, he was an active community member. Wright was a longtime member of Second Congregational Church and was involved in its leadership for many years. He also had an interest in music and was a charter member of the Musical Union. With Professors Fenelon B. Rice and Edward Dickinson, Wright edited the hymnal New Manual of Praise: for Sabbath and Social Worship, published in 1901.

In addition to his theological and geological work, Wright was known as a local historian. He wrote a scholarly biography of Charles Grandison Finney that was published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in 1891. Wright also compiled the two-volume work, A Standard History of Lorain County, published in 1916.

Wright married Hulda Maria Day (d. 1899) in August 1862. They had four children, all Oberlin graduates: Mary Augusta Wright Berle (1867-1940, A.B. 1889), Etta Maria Wright (1870-1943, A.B. 1893), Frederick Bennett Wright (1873-1922, S.B. 1897), and Helen Marcia Wright (1879-1983, A.B. 1902). In 1904, five years after his first wife’s death, he married Florence Eleanor Bedford (d. 1943). George Frederick Wright died in Oberlin of cardiac asthma on April 20, 1921, and he is buried in Westwood Cemetery in Oberlin.

Subject/Index Terms

Congregational churches--Clergy--Sources
Evolution--Religious aspects--Christianity--Sources
Geology--United States--Sources
Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, 1858--Sources
Oberlin College--Graduate School of Theology--History--Sources
Theology--Sources
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources
Wright, G. Frederick (George Frederick), 1838-1921--Sources

Administrative Information

Repository: Oberlin College Archives

Accruals: Accessions: 61, 84, 130, 140, 1978/32, 1981/23, 2000/68, 2001/94, 2015/42

Access Restrictions: Unrestricted.

Acquisition Method: The George Frederick Wright Papers were received in eight accessions, 1968-2001, with the bulk of the material being transferred from the Oberlin College Library in 1968. The daguerreotypes and ambrotypes were received from a descendant of George Frederick Wright in 2015 (2015/042).

Related Materials:

The student and faculty files of G.F. Wright are found in RG 28 Alumni Records. Wright correspondence is found the Office of the Treasurer, RG 7/1/5, Box 31. Correspondence with Elisha Gray is in the records of the Physics Department, 9/5. Wright’s correspondence regarding the plagiarism controversy between E.H. House and James K. Newton is in the Library autograph file, RG 16/5, filed under “H.” Additional correspondence may be found in the papers of Henry Churchill King (RG 2/6), James Harris Fairchild (RG 2/3), and in the Jones Family Papers (RG 30/107). Oberlin College Annual Reports, 1892-1902, include reports from Wright summarizing his activities. Notes taken by students in classes taught by Wright are in RG 19/6. Researchers interested in the Graduate School of Theology should consult RG 11.  The papers of G.F. Wight's son, Frederick Bennett Wright (RG 30/412) contain photographs taken during a research trip for the book Asiatic Russia, written by his father.

Oberlin College Special Collections holds additional printed material relating to George Frederick Wright.

Finding Aid Revision History: Processed by Melissa Gottwald, October 2000.  Revised by Rebecca Deeb, September 2001; Melissa Gottwald, October 2001.

Other URL: http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/archon_pdfs/Wright_George_Inventory.pdf


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[Series VI: Geological Files, 1877-1903, undated],
[Series VII: Ministerial Files, 1863-1181, undated],
[Series VIII: Miscellaneous Materials, 1817-1912, undated],
[Series IX: Newspaper Clippings, 1879-1919, undated],
[Series X: Printed Matter, 1860-1919, undated],
[Series XI: Sermons and Addresses, 1860-1918, undated],
[Series XII: Student Essays, 1854-1862, undated],
[Series XIII: Theological Files, 1893, undated],
[Series XIV: Topical Files, 1866-1920, undated],
[Series XV: Writings, 1871-1998],
[Series XVI: Photographs, 1849-1899, undated],
[All]

Series I: Appointment Books, 1897-1899Add to your cart.
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Item 1: Appointment Book, 1897Add to your cart.
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Series II: Biographical File, 1868-1968, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Folder 1: Biographical File, 1883-1968, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Genealogical Material, 1868-1963Add to your cart.
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Folder 1: Certificates, 1867-1895, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Folder 2: Diplomas, 1859-1887Add to your cart.
3 items.
Folder 3: Passports, 1891-1900Add to your cart.
2 items.
Series III: Contracts and Agreements, 1879-1920Add to your cart.
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Subseries 1: George Frederick Wright Publications, 1879-1916Add to your cart.
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Folder 1: Contracts and Agreements, 1879-1916Add to your cart.
Subseries 2: Bibliotheca Sacra, 1912-1920Add to your cart.
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Series IV: Correspondence Files, 1811-1921, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Subseries 1: Calendared Correspondence, 1850-1921, undatedAdd to your cart.
See Victor Lytle's seven-volume calendar and index.
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Subseries 2: Incoming Letters (Not Calendared), 1876-1915, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Folder 1: Incoming Correspondence, Abbot-Owen, 1876-1910Add to your cart.
Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
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Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
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Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
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Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
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Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
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Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
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Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
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Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
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Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
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Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
Folder 12: Incoming Correspondence, Abbot-Owen, 1876-1910Add to your cart.
Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
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Folder 1: Incoming Correspondence, Owen-Williams, 1876-1910Add to your cart.
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Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
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Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
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Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
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Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
Folder 15: Incoming Correspondence, Owen-Williams, 1876-1910Add to your cart.
Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
Folder 16: Incoming Correspondence, Owen-Williams, 1876-1910Add to your cart.
Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
Folder 17: Incoming Correspondence, Owen-Williams, 1876-1910Add to your cart.
Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
Folder 18: Incoming Correspondence, Owen-Williams, 1876-1910Add to your cart.
Uncalendared correspondence. Arranged alphabetically.
Folder 19: Incoming Correspondence (Arranged Chronologically), 1879-1915, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 20: Calendar, undatedAdd to your cart.
Subseries 3: Miscellaneous Family Letters, 1811-1915Add to your cart.
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Folder 1: Correspondence, 1811-1869Add to your cart.
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Folder 4: Correspondence Regarding Second Congregational Church, Oberlin, Ohio, 1907-1915Add to your cart.
Subseries 4: Select Letters in the R.B. Hayes Library, 1913-1914Add to your cart.
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Folder 1: Outgoing Letters to the Hayes Family (Copies), 1913-1914Add to your cart.
Series V: Diaries, 1875-1879Add to your cart.
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Series VI: Geological Files, 1877-1903, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Folder 1: Exam Questions, 1907Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Field Notes, 1880, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Folder 5: Lectures, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Item 1: Field Notes, 1877-1903, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Item 1: Field Notes, 1880-1885Add to your cart.
Geological survey descriptions for New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky.
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Geological survey descriptions for New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky.
Item 3: Field Notes, 1880-1885Add to your cart.
Geological survey descriptions for New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky.
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Geological survey descriptions for New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky.
Series VII: Ministerial Files, 1863-1181, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Folder 1: Address by E. Mix at Wright's Installation, Bakersfield, 1866Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Miscellaneous Material, 1863-1881Add to your cart.
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Item 4: Register, Andover Free Church, 1872-1881Add to your cart.
Series VIII: Miscellaneous Materials, 1817-1912, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Folder 1: Foreign Language Material, ca. 1900-1901Add to your cart.
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Item 3: Index Compiled by Wright (Readings), ca. 1868Add to your cart.
Item 4: New Testament, 1861Add to your cart.
Given to Wright upon his enlistment.
Folder 5: Class List, Unidentified School, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Grade Book, Select School, Fairhaven, Vermont, ca. 1856Add to your cart.
Folder 7: Report on Ohio Centennial Forestry Exhibit, 1899Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Resolution on Protection of Archaeological Sites, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: Sample Ballot for Sturges Voting Machine, ca. 1901Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Summary of Church Membership by County, New Connecticut (Ohio), 1817Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Notes, "Books Read", undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 12: Notes, "Population of Palestine", undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 13: Notes, "Fort Miami", undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Notes, Untitled, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: Receipted Bills and Receipts, 1886-1912, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Folder 1: Map of the Johnson Company's Property in Lorain, Ohio, 1894Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Blueprints, Noye Manufacturing Co., Milling Engineers, Buffalo, N.Y., undatedAdd to your cart.
Series IX: Newspaper Clippings, 1879-1919, undatedAdd to your cart.
3.75 linear feet.
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Series X: Printed Matter, 1860-1919, undatedAdd to your cart.
0.4 linear feet
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Folder 1: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1900-1901Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Congregational Club of Cleveland, 1887-1901Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Geology Class Excursions, 1899-1903Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Lecture Advertisements, 1889-1902, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Folder 7: Programs Upon Which Wright Appeared, 1886-1917, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Folder 18: Programs Upon Which Wright Appeared, 1886-1917, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 19: Temperance, 1905-1916, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 20: Miscellaneous, 1894-1919, undatedAdd to your cart.
Series XI: Sermons and Addresses, 1860-1918, undatedAdd to your cart.
2.0 linear feet. See Series X for lecture advertisements and programs.
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Folder 1: Sermons and Addresses, 1860-1873Add to your cart.
Skeletons of sermons preached at Gustavus revival of 1860-1861.
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Skeletons of sermons preached at Gustavus revival of 1860-1861.
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Skeletons of sermons preached at Gustavus revival of 1860-1861.
Folder 4: Sermons and Addresses, 1860-1873Add to your cart.
Skeletons of sermons preached at Gustavus revival of 1860-1861.
Folder 5: Sermons and Addresses, 1860-1873Add to your cart.
Skeletons of sermons preached at Gustavus revival of 1860-1861.
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Folder 1: Sermons and Addresses, 1873-1878Add to your cart.
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Folder 1: Sermons and Addresses, 1879-1899Add to your cart.
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Folder 7: Sermons and Addresses, 1879-1899Add to your cart.
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Folder 1: Sermons and Addresses, 1900-1918Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Sermons and Addresses, A-K, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Sermons and Addresses, A-K, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Folder 7: Sermons and Addresses, A-K, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Folder 1: Sermons and Addresses, L-Z, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Sermons and Addresses, L-Z, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Folder 4: Sermons and Addresses, L-Z, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Sermons and Addresses, Not Titled, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Sermons and Addresses, Not Titled, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: Printed Accounts of Addresses, 1886-1917Add to your cart.
Series XII: Student Essays, 1854-1862, undatedAdd to your cart.
0.1 linear feet
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Folder 1: Essays, 1854-1862, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Essays, 1854-1862, undatedAdd to your cart.
Series XIII: Theological Files, 1893, undatedAdd to your cart.
0.9 linear feet
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Extracts and Notes on Readings, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Lectures, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Lectures, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: Lectures, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: Lectures, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: Lectures, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: Lectures, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 8: Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 10: Notes, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Item 1: Notebooks, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Item 3: Notebooks, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Item 7: Notebooks, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 8: Notebooks, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 9: Notebooks, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Item 1: Notebooks, 1893, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 2: Notebooks, 1893, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 3: Notebooks, 1893, undatedAdd to your cart.
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Item 6: Notebooks, 1893, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 7: Notebooks, 1893, undatedAdd to your cart.
Item 8: Notebooks, 1893, undatedAdd to your cart.
Series XIV: Topical Files, 1866-1920, undatedAdd to your cart.
0.4 linear feet
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Folder 1: Judge Charles Candee Baldwin, 1881-1895Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Judge Charles Candee Baldwin, 1881-1895Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Judge Charles Candee Baldwin, 1881-1895Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Evolution, 1876-1878, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 5: History of Sunday Schools in Ohio, 1866-1892, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 6: History of Sunday Schools in Ohio, 1866-1892, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 7: Z. Swift Holbrook Regarding Attack on Holbrook's Character, 1895Add to your cart.
Folder 8: Oberlin College, 1897-1919, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 9: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1885-1920, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 10: World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, 1892-1893Add to your cart.
Series XV: Writings, 1871-1998Add to your cart.
1.6 linear feet
Subseries 1: Writings by George Frederick Wright, 1871-1921, undatedAdd to your cart.
Arranged in alphabetical order by topic.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: "Anthropological Museums in Central Asia," Section H, undatedAdd to your cart.
4 pages
Folder 2: "Bearing of the Glacial Epoch on Theories of Evolution," Abstract, undatedAdd to your cart.
4 pages
Folder 3: "Chips from a German Workshop," F. Max Müller, M.A., ca. 1875Add to your cart.
5 pages
Folder 4: "An Archaeological Fraud in Michigan," Detroit Tribune, 1891Add to your cart.
4 pages. Also in Stanton Weekly Clipper, December 11, 1891.
Folder 5: "Archaeological Treasures of Ohio–The Mound Builders of Ohio", ca. 1900Add to your cart.
See also Journal of Archaeological Institute of America 4, no. 165. 24 pages.
Folder 6: "Ethnological and Archaeological Discoveries in Ohio", 1887 NovemberAdd to your cart.
11 pages
Folder 7: "Objects of Archaeological Interest in the State of Ohio", ca. 1887Add to your cart.
In Ohio State Archaeology & Historical Society  Public., no. 1: 55-60, 174-186. 12 pages.
Folder 8: "Archaeological Discoveries in the Delaware Valley", 1889 October 10Add to your cart.
Published in The Independent.
Folder 9: Unpublished Geology Writings, ca. 1878-ca. 1902, undatedAdd to your cart.

"Additional Facts Regarding the Courses of the Kames in Maine," ca. 1878-1879, 5 p.

"After Completing Investigations in Gaspe..." undated, 8 p.

"The Age of Certain Clayey Bands in the Glacial Delta of Cleveland..." ca. 1883-1884, 2 p.

"The Age of Lake Baikel," ca. 1900, 11 p. (See Geological Society of America Bulletin v. 13, 1901)

"Age of the Gravel Deposits in the Valleys of the Somme and the Thames," undated, 7 p.

"The Approaching Centennial Exposition of the State...," ca. 1902, 8 p.

Folder 10: Geology Writings, ca. 1874-1900Add to your cart.

"The Balkash Basin," ca. 1900, 6 p. (See The Nation 71: 401-2. N22)

"Blagovyeshchinsk to Stregtinsk," 1900, 11 p. (See The Nation 71: 225-226 S20, August 6, 1900)

"The Caspian Sea," ca. 1874, 6 p. (See The Nation 72: 66, January 1874)

Folder 11: Geology Writings, ca. 1883-1891,  undatedAdd to your cart.

“Catastrophes of the Glacial Period,” ca. 1891, 11 p. (See The Nation 53:350-1 N5)

“Catastrophes of the Glacial Period,” revised, undated, 11 p.

“Causes and Consequences of the Irregular Boundary of the Glacial Extension into the Ohio Valley,” ca. 1883-4, 9 p.

Folder 12: Geology Writings, 1905-1908Add to your cart.

“The Cedars of Lebanon,” Nov. 4, 1905, 26 p.

“Chronology of the Glacial Epoch in North America,” 1908, 24 p.; typed, 48 p. longhand, 9 p. (introductory material in longhand)

Folder 13: Geology Writings, 1888-1900, undatedAdd to your cart.
“Climatic Changes in Central Asia...” undated, 6 p. “A Closing Word with Professor Chamberlain,” 1888, 4 p. (two drafts) “Constantinople,” 1900, 24 p. Also letter from Wendell P. Gamin of The Nation “The Deep Waterways Convention” Oct. 8, 1895, 8 p.
Folder 14: Geology Writings, undatedAdd to your cart.

[Depression in the land surface in central Asia] undated, 48-64 p. (fragment)

“Erosion as Seen in the Min River of Southern China,” undated, 5 p.

Folder 15: Geology Writings, ca. 1892-1917Add to your cart.
“Explanation of the Abandoned Beaches About the Southern End of Lake Michigan,” Bulletin of the Geographical Society of America 20: 235-44, October 4, 1917 [copy of folder 8] 6 p., Version I, 4 p., Version II (AB), 5 pp. Version III (EABSELM), 10 p. “The Extra-Morainic Drift of New Jersey,” ca. 1892, 13 p.
Folder 16: Geology Writings, 1917Add to your cart.
“Explanation of the Abandoned Beaches About the Southern End of Lake Michigan,” [fragile-see copy in Folder 7], 1917, 6 p.
Folder 17: Geology Writings, undatedAdd to your cart.
“Fallacious Estimates of Prehistoric Time,” undated, 9 p. “Fish Packing in the Rocky Mountains,” undated, 11 p. longhand “Fish Packing in the Rocky Mountains,” undated, 6 p. typescript “Floods in the Missouri River Towards the Close of the Glacial Period,” undated, Version I, 2 p., Version II, 3 p. “Floods in the Glacial Period,” undated, 9 p. “Floods of the Glacial Period,” undated, 2 p.
Folder 18: Geology Writings, 1884-1901, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Further Examination of the Lateral Erosion at the Mouth of Niagara Gorge,” ca. 1900, 8 p. (plus 1 p. re: photographs)

“Geological History of the Dead Sea,” Jan. 7, 1901, 11 p.

“Geological History of the Great Lakes...” undated, 9 p.

“Geology in a Liberal Course of Study,” undated, 36 p.

“Glacial Boundary in Southeastern Dakota,” ca. 1885, 14 p.

“The Glacial Boundary in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana,” March 1,1884, 1 p.

Folder 19: Geology Writings, undatedAdd to your cart.
[Glacial boundary in western Pennsylvania], undated, 139 p. (subsequent p. missing)
Folder 20: Geology Writings, 1886, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Glacial Period in Ohio,” undated, 84 p.

“Glacial Theories versus Glacial Facts,” undated, 4 p.

“Glacier Bay Alaska – A Trip to Alaska,” Aug. 19, 1886, 15 p.

[Glaciers in Illinois], undated, 12 p. (missing p. 1-7)

“Glaciers of Southern Greenland,” undated, 5 p.

Folder 21: Geology Writings, ca. 1875-1884, undatedAdd to your cart.
“History of the Discoveries and Discussions Concerning the Glacial Terraces in the Upper Ohio and its Tributaries,” n.d., 10 p. “How Mountains Grow,” undated, 3 p. “The Hypothesis of a Glacial Dam at Cincinnati,” 1884, 63+ p. American Nation 18: 563-7 June 1884 “Indian Ridge in Andover Massachusetts...,” ca. 1875, 11 p.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Geology Writings, ca. 1880-1900Add to your cart.

“The Influence of the Glacial Epoch upon the Early History of Mankind,” ca. 1880, 61 p.

“The Irtish River,” 1900, 6 p. (see The Nation 71: 383 N15)

Folder 2: Geology Writings, ca. 1891-1900, undatedAdd to your cart.
“Lake Baikal,” August 23, 1900, 22 p. “The Latest Discoveries of the Traces of Glacial Man at Trenton, New Jersey,” 1899, 8 p. Presented August 23, 1899 at Ohio State University before the Anthropological section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Revised for the Scientific American Supplement. “The Lava Beds of Idaho,” 1891, 23 p. see Scientific American S19 “The Lava Beds of Idaho and California and their Relationship to the Antiquity of Man,” undated, 16 p.
Folder 3: Geology Writings, 1892-1908, undatedAdd to your cart.

“The Lava Beds of the Snake River Valley,” ca. 1894 5 p. (see Worth Magazine 3:227-41 Mar)

“A Lesson from the Rocks,” 1908, 5 p.

[Loess], undated, 17 p. (missing pp. 1-3, 5, 7-9, 11-14)

“Maintaining the Level of the Great Lakes,” undated, 3 p.

“Man alone is interested in the past or future...,” undated, 11 p.

“Man and the Glacial Period in Europe,” 1892, 8 p. — Presented May 20, 1892 for the Western Reserve Historical Society.

Folder 4: Geology Writings, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Modifications of Evolutionary Theories Necessitated by the Facts of the Glacial Period,” undated, 13 p.

“Moraine Hunting in Pennsylvania,” (copy of the orig.?) undated, 47 p.

“Moraine Hunting in Pennsylvania,” undated, 44 p.

Folder 5: Geology Writings, 1889-1890, undatedAdd to your cart.

“A Moraine of Retrocession in Ontario,” 1890, 5 p., Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 1: 544-6

“The Motion of the Mini Glacier,” undated, 7 p.

“The Nampa Image,” 1889, 26 p.

“A New Estimate of Glacial Chronology from the Erosion of Plum Creek, Oberlin, Ohio,” undated, 7 p.

“New Facts Bearing upon the Question of the Unity of the Glacial Period,” undated, 19 p.

Folder 6: Geology Writings, 1892-1913, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Observations in Pennsylvania, Sept. 23-26, 1913,” 1913, 4 p.

“The Rate of Glacial Erosion,” after 1892, 2 p.

“Perhaps the clearest and most interesting...” undated, 17 p. (part of larger work?)

“The Physical Conditions in North America during man’s Early Occupancy,” undated, 12 p.

“Physical Geography of Palestine,” undated, 9 p.

Folder 7: Geology Writings, after 1892-1913, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Observations in Pennsylvania, Sept. 23-26, 1913,” 1913, 4 p.

“The Rate of Glacial Erosion,” after 1892, 2 p.

“Perhaps the clearest and most interesting...” undated, 17 p. (part of larger work?)

“The Physical Conditions in North America during man’s Early Occupancy,” undated, 12 p.

“Physical Geography of Palestine,” undated, 9 p.

Folder 8: Geology Writings, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Pre-glacial Drainage of the Little Miami River,” undated, 6 p. (Plus map)

“Pre-glacial Erosion in the Delaware Valley,” undated, 6 p.

“Probable Effects of the Glacial Period upon the Land Levels of Central Asia,” undated, 5 p.

“The Problem of the Loess in the Mississippi Valley Compared with that in Europe and Asia,” undated, 9 p.

“Professor Wright Introduced his Account of the Greenland Voyage,” undated, 29 p.

Folder 9: Geology Writings, ca. 1891-1907Add to your cart.
“The Rate of Glacial Erosion,” after 1892, 2 p. “Recent Discoveries Concerning the Relation of the Glacial Period in North America to the Antiquity of Man,” ca. 1891, 47 p. “Recent Geological and Climatic Changes in Central Asia,” 1901, 5 p. “Recent Geological Changes as Affecting Theories of Man’s Development,” 1907, 10 p.
Folder 10: Geology Writings, 1915, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Recent Geology of the Jordan Valley,” undated, 6 p.

“Recent Variations of Glaciers,” undated, 5 p.

“The Relations of the Loess to the Glacial Drift,” undated, 9 p.

“The Relative Age of the Illinoian Drift,” ca. 1915, 5 p.

“Reminiscences of James Birmingham Berington by one who was Privileged to Know Him,” undated, 5 p.

Folder 11: Geology Writings, 1896-1897, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Report of G.F. Wright of the explorations on the Lalor Farm, Trenton, N.J....,” June 25-28, 1897, 6 p.

“Sand and Pebbles,” Letter from Frances J. Dyer of The Congregationalist regarding “Some Familiar Geological Forces,” April 1, 1896, 1 p.

“Some Familiar Geological Forces” [or “Water as a Geological Force”], undated, 4 p.

“Some new Terrestrial Facts Bearing on the Date of the Close of the Last Glacial Period,” undated, 13 p. “Stealing the Great Lakes,” n.d., 7 p.

“A Summer with the Alaskan Glaciers,” undated, 37 p.

Folder 12: Geology Writings, ca. 1886-ca. 1896, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Supposed ‘Corduroy Road’ Near Conneaut, Ohio,” undated, 2 p.

“Supposed ‘Corduroy Road’ of Late Glacial Age, at Amboy, Ohio,” undated, 4 p.

“Terraces vs. Bars and Deltas,” undated, 5 p.

“To the Editor of the American Geologist with reference to the Nampa Figurine,” ca. 1890s, 7 p.

“A Trip to the Land of Boulders,” undated, 5 p.

“A Trip to the Land of Boulders,” undated, 6 p.

“A Vacation on Mt. Rainier,” Aug. 4-13, 1886, 15 p.

“The Whereabouts of Nansen,” ca. 1896, 6 p.

Folder 13: Geology Writings, Fragments, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Geology Publications, 1903-1904Add to your cart.
“Autobiography of the Glacial Tramp,” 1903, 5 p. “Evidence of the Agency of Water in the Distribution of the Loess in the Missouri Valley,” 2 copies, April 1904, 18 p.
Folder 2: Geology Publications, 1884-1892, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Extra-Morainic Drift...” 1892, 16 p.

“The Glacial Boundary...” 1890, (Bulletin of the US Geological Survey No. 58) 112 p.

“The Glacial Boundary in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky,” 1884, 72 p. [incomplete]

“The Glacial Boundary in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana,” book review, copy, March 1, 1884, 1 p.

“Klondyke Gold,” undated, 1 p.

Folder 3: Geology Publications, 1880-after 1915Add to your cart.

“My Recent European Trip,” April 1906, 6 p. in Oberlin Alumni Magazine

"The Nampa Image,” 1889, 26 p.

“New Method of Estimating the Age of Niagara Falls,” June 1899, 10 p.

“Observations Upon the Glacial Phenomena...,” 1895, 9 p.

“The Origin and Distribution of Loess,” after 1915, 29 p.

“Prehistoric Andover,” 1880, 9 p.

Folder 4: Geology Publications, 1884-1902Add to your cart.

“The Rate of Lateral Erosion at Niagara,” March 1902, 7 p.

“Recent Geological Changes in Northern and Central Asia,” 1901, 7 p. (two copies)

“Some of Professor Salisbury’s Criticisms...” 1893, 6 p.

“Supposed Interglacial Shell-Beds in Shropshire, England,” 1891, 4 p.

“The Supposed Post-Glacial Outlet of the Great Lakes,” 1892, 5 p.

“Terminal Moraine,” 1884, 86 p.

Box OVS 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: "The Evidence of Glacial Man in America", 1893 January 26Add to your cart.
3 columns in The Advance.
Folder 2: "Mr. Holmes's Criticism Upon the Evidence of Glacial Man", 1893 May 19Add to your cart.
2 pages in Science
Folder 3: "Hard Problems of Scripture: Science and the Deluge; "The Crossing of the Red Sea"; "The Limitations of Science vs. the Certainties of Faith"Add to your cart.
From The Ram's Horn, December 12, 1903.
Box 4Add to your cart.
Folder 1: History Writings, 1896-1913, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Old Fort Sandoski of 1745 and the Sandusky Forts,” 1913, (Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society Publication 22: 371-80) 4 p., [An answer to a rejoinder to the above article follows, 6 p.]

“Our Debt to the Pioneers of a Hundred Years Ago,” undated, 8 p.

“Significant Events of the Seventy-five Years,” [Oberlin History] 1908, 17 p.

“Two Estimates of Oberlin by the New York Nation,” 1896, 3 p.

Folder 2: History Writings, 1900-1921Add to your cart.

“Cornerstone Laid for Archeological Museum,” Oberlin Review, October 8, 1912, 1 p.

[Early history of the region] Year Book of the Sandusky County Pioneer and Historical Association, p. 8-14, 1913, 7 p.

“Oberlin College,” New England Magazine, September 1900, 2 copies, 20 p.

“Oberlin College,” September 1900, 2 copies, 20 p.

“The Oberlin I First Knew and Oberlin Today,” April 1921, 4 p.

“Older Oberlin Not So Worldly,” January 26, 1919, 2 copies, 6 p.

“Reminiscences of Early Oberlin,” October 1917, 5 p.

“Reminiscences of Early Oberlin,” in the Oberlin Literary Magazine, October 1917, 5 p.

Folder 3: Music (Unpublished), undatedAdd to your cart.
“The Importance of Systems in the Instruction that is given in Vocal Music,” undated, 5 p.
Folder 4: Science, 1900, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Carbon & Company,” undated, 8 p.

“Chapter IV – Summary of Conclusions,” undated, 2 p.

[Darwinism], undated, p. 9-68, [many p. missing, 24 p. total]

[Darwinism], undated, 4 p.

“The Evolutionary Fad,” 1900 (Bib Sac 57:303-316 Ap), 1 p.

Folder 5: Science, 1898, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Gulick’s Theory of Evolution,” 1898 (Ind Ap 7) 3 p. (fragment)

“A Lesson from the Past,” [very faint] undated, 4 p.

“Man has a twofold nature,” undated, 4 p.

“The Nature and Sources of Our Information,” undated, 7 p.

“Scientific Conception of ‘Vitality,’” Sept. 29, 1898, 4 p.

Folder 6: Science and Theology, 1892-ca. 1906, undatedAdd to your cart.

“The Antiquity of the Human Race,” ca. 1892, 11 p.

“Contributions of Geology to the Credibility of the Flood,” ca. 1901, (McClures Magazine 7 no. 2, June p. 134-9), 4 p.

“Crisis in Biblical Criticism,” undated, 12 p.

“Darius the Mede,” undated, 7 p.

“Genesis and Geology” (SS Times Jan. 6), ca. 1906, 4 p.

“Geological Credibility of the Flood,” ca. 1901, 44 p.

“Geological Possibility of the Flood,” ca. 1904-5, 14 p.

“God in Geology,” undated, 3 p.

Folder 7: Science and Theology, 1871-1880, undatedAdd to your cart.
“The Growth of Confidence in Inductive Reasoning,” 1871 (New Eng 30: 601-615), 51 p. + 5 pp. of notes “The Logic of Christian Evidences—in Three Parts,” 1880, Part I, Part II, Part III, 16 p., Chapters II and III 26 pp. [To the Reviewer] (The Publishers’ Weekly) of “The Logic of Christian Evidences,” by G.F. Wright, undated, 4 p. “New Light on Christian Evidence,” undated, 14 p. (includes outline)
Folder 8: Science and Theology, ca. 1870s-1916, undatedAdd to your cart.
“The Oppositions of Science Falsely So-called,” ca. 1905, (Bib Stud and Tea 2: 38-41) Ja, 4 p. “Periodicity a Law of Nature,” 1916 (Bib Sac 73: 302-317 Ap), [p. 1-5, 5a, 5G, 5c, 6-9], 12 p. total “Prof. Davis’s review of my book ‘Scientific Confirmations of Old Testament History,’” undated, 10 p. “A Questionable Analogy,” undated, 7 p. “Some of the most mischievous Delusions,” undated, 34 p. [Two distinct styles of penmanship may indicate that the first section is not written by Wright] “Treatise on Darwinism,” ca. 1870s, 8 p.15 misc. pages [fragments]
Folder 9: Science and Theology, 1901-1916, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Contributions of Geology to the Credibility of the Flood,” undated, printed copy, 7 p.

“The Crossing of the Red Sea,” S.S. World, July 1901, 11 p.

“The Destruction of Sodom,” March 1913, 2 p.

“The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ...,” [frag.] undated, 2 p.

“The Fundamentals,” “The Passing of Evolution,” Chap. 1, 1916, 16 p.

“Geological Confirmations of the Biblical History of Israel from Abraham to the Exodus,” undated, 4 p.

Folder 10: "The Royal Road to Influence", 1897 FebruaryAdd to your cart.
7 pages in the Oberlin Review.
Folder 11: Social-Political Writings, 1881-1918, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Affairs in South Eastern Alaska,” undated, 5 p.

“The Church and petitions,” undated, 5 p.

“Dear American” (2nd Geological Survey of PA), July 1881, 3 p.

“Ethics of the Standard Oil Company,” April 22, 1905, (Bib Sac 62:538-559 Jl), 7 p.

“From Peking to Holgan(?),” May 14, 1900, 18 p.

“From Port Arthur to Harbin(?),” June 26, 1900, 18 p.

“Future Balkan Boundaries,” Sept. 16, 1918, 7 p. and memo.

Folder 12: Social-Political Writings, 1900-1910s, undatedAdd to your cart.

“The Future of Oberlin,” undated, 21 p.

“The Mongolian Border,” June 1, 1900, 19 p.

“Observations in China, Manchuria, Siberia, and Turkistan,” ca. 1903 (Cract 37: 245-262 Je), (incomplete) 4 p.

“An Oriental Allegory,” Sept. 1900, 8 p.

“The phrase Illinois Country...,” 1910s, 2 p.

“President Payne’s Third Party Fallacies,” undated, 1 p., incomplete

“Ravarovsk (?) to Blagoryeshchensk ,” July 24, 1900, 10 p.

[Russia, no title], [p. 1 missing], Nov. 24, 1900, 14 p.

“Samarkand,” 1900, (Nation 71: 507 D27), 2 p., incomplete

“Statement on Standard Oil’s morals,” ca. 1905, (Bib Sac 62: 538-559 Jl, Bib Sac 62: 370-76 Ap), 1 p.

“Stead’s Mission to Russia,” Sept. 26, 1905, 4 p.

“The Sungarei (?) River,” July 2, 1900, 9 p.

“Tashkend,” 1900, (Nation 71:441 D6), 5 p.

“Vladivostok to Havarosk,” July 11, 1900, 7 p.

"What Shall the President Do?," undated, 4 p.

Box 5Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Theology, ca. 1878-ca. 1889, undatedAdd to your cart.

“...are born with sin,” [Calvinism, etc.] undated, (p. 71-90) 20 p.

“Atheism,” undated, 1 p.

“Bushnell’s ‘Vicarious Sacrifices,’” [review], undated, 36 p.

“A Child of God in a Poor House,” undated, 19 p.

[Design vs. Chance] undated, 1 p.

“Destiny not in the sense...,” fragment, undated, 1 p.

“The Difficulties of Our President,” undated, 4 p.

“The Doctrine of Immortality,” ca. 1878 [Ind Mr 28, Apr 11], 6 p.

“Dr. Briggs on Inspiration,” ca. 1889 (Bib Sec 46:381-3 Ap; 47:136-153 Ja) 15 p.

Folder 2: Theology, undatedAdd to your cart.

“The Essential Verity in Religion,” Part 2nd, Galley One, undated, 10 p.

“Evidences of Christianity,” undated, 65 p. in longhand, 7 p. of fragments.

Folder 3: Theology, 1886-after 1908, undatedAdd to your cart.

“The Evolution of Christianity. By Lyman Abbott...” [book review], 1892, 2 p.

“Ignorance of Daniel’s Critics,” undated [after 1908], 3 p.

“An Institute of Christian Sociology,” Nov. 19, 1894, 6 p.

“The Inductive Principles in Biblical Knowledge,” undated, 3 p.

“John Locke...,” undated, 28 p.

“Logic of Christian Evidence,” undated, [p. 1-90 missing] 118 p.

“Missions in South Eastern Alaska,” ca. 1886, 7 p.

“Missionary Fruit in South Eastern Alaska,” Sept. 11, 1886, 6 p.

Folder 4: Theology, 1895, undatedAdd to your cart.

“The New Testament Endorsement of the Genuineness of the Pentateuch,” undated, [2 pages with the number “4”] 7 p.

“The Oberlin Summer School of Christian Sociology,” June 29, 1895, 4 p.

“The Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God as manifested in his Works,” (Graham Lecture I), [Pub. Bib Sac] undated, [p. 6-7 missing], 12 p.

Folder 5: Theology, 1883Add to your cart.
"The Practical Bearings of Our Belief Concerning the Relation of Death to Probation," 1883 (Bib Sac 40: 694-713 O) 77 p.
Folder 6: Theology, 1860-1899, undatedAdd to your cart.

“The Prayer Gauge Tested by Inductive Philosophy,” undated, 7 p.

“President Ballentine’s Inductive Logic,” Feb. 8, 1899, 4 p.

“The Proof of Christianity,” undated, 14 p.

“A Quaker Wedding,” undated, 7 p.

“The Rapids of the St. Lawrence,” June 1860, 5 p.

“Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep it Holy,” undated, 2 p.

“Responsibility for Damages on Theological Highways,” undated, 3 p.

“The Science of Natural Theology..., by Rev. Asa Mahon D.D.,” [review], 1869, 4 p.

“Shallow Scholarship of the Destructive Biblical Critics,” undated, 2 p.

“Stratification of the Pentateuch,” [incomplete] undated, 6 p.

Folder 7: Theology, ca. 1871-1894, undatedAdd to your cart.

“Such then, without entering into...,” [results from Tel Armana, 1894], 2 p.

“We do well to emphasize...,” [Distinction between Fact and Theory], undated, 3 p.; p. 13-17

“What is the true Growth of Confidence in Inductive Reasoning,” (New Eng 30: 601-15 O), ca. 1871, 16 p.

“Why I accepted the invitation...,” undated, 8 p.

Folder 8: Theology, undatedAdd to your cart.

Fragments, no titles.

"The Conclusion of the Whole Matter, undated, 2 pages.

"Aristotle Defined Nature as...," undated, 4 pages.

"The Evidence for Christianity," undated, pages 219-229, 11 pages.

"I Preliminary Considerations," undated, 4 pages.

"Part III – Difficulties Involved in Denying The Truth of Christianity, Chap. I Introductory," 12 pages.

Folder 9: Theology, undatedAdd to your cart.

Chapter IV–The Mythical Hypothesis, undated, pages 169-176, 7 pages.

Preliminary Considerations, undated, 1 page.

[Miscellaneous pages], undated, 17 pages.

[Fragments, miscellaneous], undated, 2 pages.

[Theology fragments], undated, 8 pages.

[Fragment of play,] undated, 8 pages.

Folder 10: Theology, 1916-1920Add to your cart.

"The Mission of the Russian Church," The Living Church, (February 28, 1920): pages 566-567.

"The Newest Things in Biblical Criticism," Advance, January 13, 1916, 2 pages.

Folder 11: Miscellaneous, undatedAdd to your cart.
"Elder Duncan McPHerson and Side Walk Reform–or Two Leaps in the Dark," [6 tablets of fragments, 4 pages, 12 pages, 11 pages, 12 pages, 6 pages, 14 pages], undated, 59 pages.
Folder 12: Miscellaneous, Obituary, 1920Add to your cart.
"Dr. Smith N. Penfield," 1920, 5 pages.
Folder 13: Miscellaneous, 1901-1920Add to your cart.

"Dr. Smith N. Penfield," [G.F. Wright conducted the service for Mr. Penfield. This appears to be the memorial talk by Wright], 1920, 10 pages.

"Captain Judson N. Cross," 1901, 3 pages.

Folder 14: Miscellaneous, undatedAdd to your cart.

[Miscellaneous Notes on Charles G. Finney," undated, 62 pages.

Finneyana I [small notebook], undated, 87 pages.

Finneyana II [small notebook], undated, 46 pages.

Folder 15: Autobiography: "Story of My Life and Work", 1916Add to your cart.
459 pages.
Folder 16: Guide Book: "See Ohio First" [2 copies], 1915-1919Add to your cart.
85 pages.
Folder 17: Writings Regarding Finney, 1875-1876Add to your cart.

"Dr. Hodge's Misrepresentations of President Finney's System of Theology," 1876, 12 pages.

Rev. Henry Matison, "Mr. Finney," Oberlin Review, November 17, 1875, 2 pages.

Box 6Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Authors A-Z, ca. 1910s-1920sAdd to your cart.
Folder 2: Authors A-Z, ca. 1910s-1920sAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Authors A-Z, ca. 1910s-1920sAdd to your cart.
Folder 4: No Author and Partial Articles, 1846-1902, undatedAdd to your cart.
1846, 1850, 1890, 1902
Folder 5: Ellen Wright, "Travels of George Wright", 1998Add to your cart.
Series XVI: Photographs, 1849-1899, undatedAdd to your cart.
0.99 linear feet
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: New Comerstown, Ohio, ca. 1889Add to your cart.
Folder 2: G.F. Wright and Charles B. SHedd at Stony Island Near Chicago, Illinois, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 3: Views Near Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, undatedAdd to your cart.
Mounted.
Folder 4: Miscellaneous, 1899, undatedAdd to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Daguerreotypes, 1849, undatedAdd to your cart.

Accession 2015/042.

William W. Wright, 1849; Unidentified woman, undated.

Folder 2: Ambrotypes (Tinted), undatedAdd to your cart.

Accession 2015/042.

Unidentified Woman, undated; Pair: man and woman, undated.


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