George Royal Avery Papers

Series

Identifier: I

Staff Only

Content Description

From the Collection: Dr. Emmett K. Vande Vere of Berrien Springs, Michigan, donated the papers of several Emmanuel Missionary College (Andrews University) administrators to the Adventist Heritage Center at James White Library, Andrews University in April 1973. Dr. Vande Vere collected and used these materials to write his book, The Wisdom Seekers (1972). The collection contains the correspondence, diaries, papers, manuscripts, articles, pamphlets, legal instruments, notations, photographs, and miscellany of George Royal Avery, Sydney Brownsberger, Rowland H. Harris, Herman O. Olson, and others and the historical materials collected by Dr. E . K. Vand e Vere on the campus of Andrews University and those received from the Southern Publishing Association, Nashville, Tennessee. The photographs are reposited in the "Photographs File" of the Adventist Heritage Center. Pamphlets included in this collection have been cataloged and placed in the pamphlet section of the Adventist Heritage Center. All items of the George Royal Avery papers have been copied (typescript, carbon copy) by Dr. E. K. Vande Vere from the originals of Mrs. Vesta Keeney, East Lansing, Michigan.

Dates

Majority of material found within 1855 - 1973

Biographical / Historical

George Royal Avery (1855-1935) was a student at Battle Creek College from 1875-1880. His papers here have been copied (typescript and carbon copy) by Dr. E. K. Vande Vere from the originals at that time belonging to Mrs. Vesta Avery Keeney of East Lansing, Michigan, daughter of George Royal Avery. Those original papers are now here, having been given to the Adventist Heritage Center by Mrs. Keeney on February 22, 1977; see Collection 7. For more details, see the thesis, "George Royal Avery," by D. C. Beardsell (G.S. Th B368) and The Wisdom Seekers (LD 171 .A42V3).