Whitman family papers, A1352
Scope and Contents
Seth Whitman's diary contains brief descriptions of Whitman's travels and what appears to be the text of an address to a Baptist convention. The commonplace books contain notes, poems, images, and excerpts from other works. Seth's also contains notes on Hebrew.
Dates
- Creation: 1825 - 1880
Creator
- Whitman, Seth Spencer (Person)
- Whitman, Matilda Nicholas (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Biographical note
Seth Spencer Whitman attended Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, which later became Colgate University, from 1820-1823, and graduated from Hamilton College in 1825. He was a professor of Hebrew and Biblical criticism at the Seminary from 1829-1835.
Whitman was born in Fairfield, Vermont on February 5, 1802. He attended Newton Theological Institution from 1825-1828, earned an AM from Brown University in 1828, and was ordained in Hamilton on August 18, 1829. He was a pastor in Belvedere, Illinois (1836-1846 and Madison, Wisconsin (1851-1852). He died in Madison on January 2, 1852.
Elmer William Smith, ed., Colgate University General Catalogue, vol. 2, (Hamilton, NY: Colgate University, 1939), 7.
Extent
.6 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Whitman, Seth Spencer (Person)
- Whitman, Matilda Nicholas (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Whitman family papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Allyson Smally
- Date
- May 5, 2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and University Archives, Colgate University Libraries Repository
13 Oak Drive
Case Library and Geyer Center for Information Technology
Colgate University
Hamilton New York 13346 United States US
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