Friday, September 20, 2019

From North Carolina to Indian Territory

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The train traveling west from Greenville, North Carolina, left the station three hours late. But Meta Chestnutt didn't mind. The only th...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

R. W. Officer Reports on Stone-Campbell Churches in I.T., 1890

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During the second half of 1890, only a year after Meta Chestnutt first arrived in Silver City, R. W. Officer reported on the state of Stone-...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

R. W. Officer Writes from Minco about Meta Chestnutt

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Part of R. W. Officer's report from Indian Territory in the fall of 1890 includes the following, written at Minco, I.T.: Miss Meta Che...
Sunday, September 08, 2019

Protestant Dominance in 19th-Century America and Stone-Campbell Churches

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During the nineteenth century, Americans could hardly fail to notice that although Protestant Christianity was officially non -established, ...
Saturday, September 07, 2019

J. Alba and Meta Sager at the Lake Mohonk Conference 1910

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In late October of 1910, Meta Chestnutt and J. Alba Sager traveled from Oklahoma to New York to attend the annual Lake Mohonk Conference of ...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

The Historic Conferences at Lake Mohonk, NY

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Beginning in 1883, Albert and Alfred Smiley, twin brothers and devout Quakers, hosted the "Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Ind...
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Saturday, August 24, 2019

Mrs. Sager on Modern Translations of the Bible

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On Sunday night, April 28, 1935, Meta Chestnutt Sager wrote to her sister-in-law, Clara Dixon Chestnutt, and complained about preachers and ...
Friday, August 23, 2019

Meta Chestnutt Sager on the Christian Church's Neglect of the Poor and the Social Sources of Denominationalism

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The long, rambling letters that Meta Chestnutt Sager sent to her sister-in-law, Clara Dixon Chestnutt, include reflections on religion in Am...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Meta Chestnutt Sager on the Depression, Roosevelt, Prohibition, and Repeal

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Among the more interesting parts of the Meta Chestnutt Sager Collection is a small group of letters Mrs. Sager (1863-1948) wrote from her ho...
Monday, August 19, 2019

R. W. Officer's Letters to Meta Chestnutt 1890

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Sometime in June of 1890, the evangelist R. W. Officer sent a handwritten letter addressed to "Miss Meta Chestnutt, Silver City, I.T....
Thursday, July 11, 2019

U.S. Citizens and their Federal Government, c. 1900-1975

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This post is my answer to a broad question: How and why did the relationship between American citizens and the federal government change be...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Federal Census of the Texas Panhandle, 1880

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The last day or two, I've been spending time with the federal census of 1880. It's amazing. This was the first census following th...