Maryland

Content Description The four persons whose diaries make up this collection are from one family. • John Byington was the first president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and a senior leader of the early Adventist being older than most of the other leaders. • Catharine Newton Byington is John Byington's wife. • Martha D. Byington-Amadon is the daughter of John and Catharine Byington. • George Washington Amadon is Martha Byington's husband.The diaries date from 1857 to...

Content Description Personal and Business Documents, Published and Unpublished Writings (short stories, book manuscripts, and poems)

Content Description This collection contains Mrs. Bee’s correspondence for a portion of the time she served as the elementary education superintendent for the Indiana Conference of Seventh-day Adventist as well as after she moved to Pennsylvania and Maryland later in her career. The correspondence encompasses Bee’s time at the Carlisle School as well as her time associated with the Chesapeake Conference in Maryland.

Content Description This collection is made up articles and documents that Fisel found interesting. The general focus of this collection is on the subjects of Adventist theology and beliefs with a bent towards those who disagree with the mainline denominational views.

Content Description J. Lloyd Holbert (d. 1998) was for many years (1950s to 1990s) the recording technician at Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church in Takoma Park, Maryland, on the campus of Columbia Union College. By virtue of its location near the Church world headquarters and as one of the largest Adventist churches in the world, Sligo was a destination for a virtual who’s who of Adventist speakers. This very large tape collection captures the voices of these leaders plus the flavor of a week by week Adventist...

Content Description This collection provides a picture of the life of an American local church pastor. Materials include church board agenda and minutes, evangelistic handbills, materials of weddings Jaecks conducted. There are also number of tapes sermon tapes preached by L. D. Jaecks.

Content Description The collection contains correspondence, papers, manuscripts, articles, quotations, clippings, notes, an account of a symposium, etc. written by Spicer and others during the course of his life.