Calendar of the Baptist Collection of Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Prepared by the Michigan Historical Records Survey Project, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Work Projects Administration.
Abstract
The papers calendared in this volume were brought together by
Kalamazoo College at the time of its centennial. They are, therefore,
frequently referred to as the College Centennial Collection. However,
an examination of this calendar will show that it is not merely a
college historical collection but rather a collection of material on
Baptist activities in the State of Michigan, for it gives an insight
into the labors of early Baptist missionaries, the financial struggles
of churches and the Michigan Baptist State Convention, and the founding
and early history of Kalamazoo College, toward whose success many a
Baptist missionary preacher contributed much of his energy, and many
Baptist pioneer settlers considerable sums of money, taking into consideration,
of course, the economic conditions of a pioneer civilization.
By far the greater part of this collection are the papers of
Reverend Thomas Z.R. Jones, Baptist missionary preacher in Michigan
from 1835 to 1876 and financial agent both of the Michigan Baptist
State Convention and of Kalamazoo College.
This calendar does not describe several bundles of fiscal
records such as bills and receipts, nor a quantity of memos and
notes.
Those parts of letters which are mere lists of names and
amounts subscribed or collected have been incorporated in the
Appendix. They carry the same entry numbers as the letters from
which they are excerpted.
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