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Stearns, William A. (William Augustus), 1805-1876

 Person

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Amherst College Inaugurations Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00094
Abstract

Speeches, notes, newsclippings, photographs, invitations, tickets, programs,, and guest lists from various Amherst College Inauguration ceremonies dating from 1821 to present.

Dates: 1821-present
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

Bullock, Alexander Hamilton (AC 1836) - Summaries of letters to Alexander H. Bullock, 1870-1881

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and literary manuscripts - mostly orations, disputations and essays - written by Amherst College alumni. The collection includes materials of such individuals as Henry Ward Beecher, John Quincy Adams, William Austin Dickinson, and Edward Hitchcock.

Dates: 1870-1881
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Amherst College Student Work and Correspondence

Envelope, 1865 December

 File — Box 26A, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 14 contains material relating to Edward Hitchcock's father Justin Hitchcock, his brother Henry Hitchcock, his sister Marissa Hitchcock, and his children, Catherine Hitchcock Storrs, Charles Henry Hitchcock, Edward Hitchcock, Jr. (AC 1849), Emily Hitchcock Terry, Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock Putnam, and Mary Hitchcock. Much of the information in the series consists of references to material located in different parts of the collection. Of particular interest are Mary Hitchcock's drawings...
Dates: 1865 December
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers / Series 14: The Family of Edward Hitchcock / Sub-series E: Charles Henry Hitchcock (son) (AC 1856)

Grob, Samuel A. (Prospective Student), 1935

 File
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Amherst College Non-Alumni Biographical Files document individuals associated with the college as faculty, staff, honorary degree recipients, trustees, visiting speakers and artists or in any role other than student. Files contain information about the individual and their relationship to the college and may including newpaper clippings, photographs, curriculum vitae, pamphlets, correspondence and other materials. Some files contain biographical questionaires submitted by the individual...
Dates: 1935
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Amherst College Non-Alumni Biographical Files / G

Stearns, William A. (President), 11 folders, 1852-2005

 File
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Amherst College Non-Alumni Biographical Files document individuals associated with the college as faculty, staff, honorary degree recipients, trustees, visiting speakers and artists or in any role other than student. Files contain information about the individual and their relationship to the college and may including newpaper clippings, photographs, curriculum vitae, pamphlets, correspondence and other materials. Some files contain biographical questionaires submitted by the individual...
Dates: 1852-2005
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Amherst College Non-Alumni Biographical Files / S

To William A. Stearns, President of Amherst College (27 letters); to unidentified recipient (probably Stearns), 1864 February-March

 File — Box 2, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Series: Sub-series A: Biographical Materials - contains material arranged by type. Traditional details are provided by a newspaper notice of his marriage to Orra White in 1821 and by his diploma from Yale (1818). Also included is the manuscript "phrenological description" of Hitchcock by L.N. Fowler, completed in 1847. Hitchcock is also mentioned in a diary (1824; present in typescript) and five letters written in 1833, 1835, 1846, 1850, and 1854 - all of which provide insight about how he was...
Dates: 1864 February-March
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers / Series 1: Edward Hitchcock - Personal Affairs / Sub-series D: Death of Edward Hitchcock / Section 2: Condolences and memorials

William Augustus Stearns Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00120
Abstract

This collection contains a small body of correspondence, biographical material and other general material related to William A. Stearns and his family. The bulk of the collection consists of Stearns's sermons in manuscript form. The correspondence is mostly personal letters to and from members of Stearns's family, but there are some letters from Stearns to others, a group of anti-slavery letters and documents, and some religious documents pertaining to Stearns's ministry.

Dates: 1801-1875
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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