Inventory of the Allen Howard Godbey Papers, 1785-1948

Collection Number 1599


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Godbey, Allen Howard, 1864-1948.
Title
Allen Howard Godbey Papers, 1785-1948 (bulk 1900-1948).
Call Number
1599
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 5,000 items.
Abstract
General and family correspondence, mainly 1900-1948, and writings of Godbey of Missouri, Methodist minister, Methodist historian, and teacher and scholar in the field of Old Testament, Hebrew history, archeology, and Semitics, professor at Duke University, 1926-1932. Volumes include writings, notebooks, scrapbooks; also financial records of Central Methodist College at Fayette, Mo., 1900-1909. Materials earlier than 1900 (7 volumes and a few papers of scattered dates) pertain to the Reverend William Clinton Godbey, other Methodist preachers, and Methodism in 19th-century Missouri, including a preacher's diary and record, 1871-1872, on the St. Louis circuit.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Gift 1949-1958
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Allen Howard Godbey Papers, #1599, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Central Methodist College (Fayette, Mo.)--History--20th century.
Circuit riders--Missouri.
Clergy--Missouri--Diaries.
Clergy--Missouri--History.
College teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
Diaries.
Duke University--Faculty--History--20th century.
Godbey, Allen Howard, 1864-1948.
Godbey, William Clinton.
Methodism--Missouri--History--19th century.
Methodist Church--Missouri--History.
Missouri--Religion--19th century.
Religion--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina--History--20th century.
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Collection Overview

General and family correspondence, mainly 1900-1948, and writings of Godbey of Missouri, Methodist minister, Methodist historian, and teacher and scholar in the field of Old Testament, Hebrew history, archeology, and Semitics, professor at Duke University, 1926-1932. Volumes include writings, notebooks, scrapbooks; also financial records of Central Methodist College at Fayette, Mo., 1900-1909. Materials earlier than 1900 (7 volumes and a few papers of scattered dates) pertain to the Reverend William Clinton Godbey, other Methodist preachers, and Methodism in 19th-century Missouri, including a preacher's diary and record, 1871-1872, on the St. Louis circuit.