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Dwight, H. G. O. (Harrison Gray Otis), 1803-1862

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Dwight, Harrison G. O. to Mary A. Bliss [Dwight] and Laura A. Bliss [Ward], 1862

 File — Box 9, Folder: 134
Scope and Contents

Harrison G. O. Dwight (father of Henry O. Dwight) to Mary (his future daughter-in-law) and Laura, a letter written three weeks before his death in a train accident in Vermont.

Dates: 1862
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Mark Hopkins Ward (AC 1906) Family Papers / Series 7: Laura A. Bliss Ward Correspondence / Sub-series C: Incoming Correspondence from Friends and Acquaintances

Justin Perkins (AC 1829) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MA.00153
Abstract

Educator, minister and missionary to Persia beginning in the 1830s. Collection includes: correspondence with others in his field; manuscript sermons; lectures and notes; newspaper clippings and pamphlets, and seven volumes of bound manuscripts - mostly letters and journals.

Dates: circa 1830-1869
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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Archival Object 1
Collection 1
 
Subject
Amherst College -- Alumni and alumnae 1
Correspondence 1
Missions -- Iran 1
Missions to Church of the East members 1
Sermons 1
 

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