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| Title: | Sweet, William Warren. Papers |
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| Dates: | 1927-1946 |
| Size: | 1.5 lineae feet (3 boxes) |
| Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
| Abstract: | William Warren Sweet, Professor of American Church History at the University of Chicago, 1927 to 1946. Among his many books on church history are Story of Religion in America, Religion on the American Frontier, and American Culture and Religion. The papers include professional and personal correspondence, manuscripts, reports and other administrative documents. |
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William Warren Sweet, Professor of American Church History at the University of Chicago, was born in Baldwin, Kansas, in 1881. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University, A.B., 1902; Drew Theological Seminary, B.D., 1906; Crozer Theological Seminary, M.TH. 1907; the University of Pennsylvania, A.M., 1909; Ph.D., 1912. Ohio Wesleyan awarded Sweet a D.Litt. in 1935 and DePauw University a L.H.D. in 1956. Sweet taught at Ohio Wesleyan, 1911-1912, DePauw University, where he was professor and chairman of the Department of History, 1913-1927, and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, 1926-1927. He was Professor of American Church History at the University of Chicago from 1927 to 1946. From 1946 to 1952, Sweet taught at Garrett Biblical Institute and Southern Methodist University, and was president of the American Society of Church History in 1932. Among his many books on church history are Story of Religion in America, Religion on the American Frontier, and American Culture and Religion. Sweet died in Texas in 1958.
The papers deposited in the University of Chicago Archives, comprising three manuscript boxes, cover Sweet's career at the University of Chicago. They deal with both personal and professional matters. The correspondence, which makes up roughly half of the material, deals with a variety of subjects-correspondence with publishers, letters concerning inaccuracies and criticisms of Sweet's books, recommendations for Sweet's students, affairs of the Methodist Episcopal Church, University of Chicago affairs, and others. The remainder of the papers are made up of reports, official documents-such as contracts, licenses, speeches, and several manuscripts by Sweet. Box III contains term papers written by Sweet's students.
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| Box 1 Folder 1 | Personal and professional correspondence, A |
| Box 1 Folder 2 | Professional correspondence, Abingdon Press (John W. Longdale) |
| Box 1 Folder 3 | Personal and professional correspondence, B |
| Box 1 Folder 4 | Personal and professional correspondence, C |
| Box 1 Folder 5 | Personal and professional correspondence, Shirley Jackson Case |
| Box 1 Folder 6 | Personal and professional correspondence, D |
| Box 1 Folder 7 | Personal and professional correspondence, E-F |
| Box 1 Folder 8 | Personal and professional correspondence, G |
| Box 1 Folder 9 | Personal and professional correspondence, H |
| Box 1 Folder 10 | Professional correspondence, Harper & Brothers, Publishers |
| Box 1 Folder 11 | Personal and professional correspondence, I-K |
| Box 1 Folder 12 | Personal and professional correspondence, L |
| Box 1 Folder 13 | Personal and professional correspondence, M |
| Box 1 Folder 14 | Personal and professional correspondence, McNeill, John T. |
| Box 1 Folder 15 | Personal and professional correspondence, Mathews, Shailer |
| Box 1 Folder 16 | Personal and professional correspondence, Mead, Sidney E. |
| Box 2 Folder 1 | Personal and professional correspondence, N-O |
| Box 2 Folder 2 | Personal and professional correspondence, Oxnam, G. Bromley |
| Box 2 Folder 3 | Personal and professional correspondence, P-Q |
| Box 2 Folder 4 | Personal and professional correspondence, R |
| Box 2 Folder 5 | Personal and professional correspondence, S |
| Box 2 Folder 6 | Personal and professional correspondence, Smith, Horace G. |
| Box 2 Folder 7 | Personal and professional correspondence, Sperry, Willard L. |
| Box 2 Folder 8 | Personal correspondence, Sweet Family |
| Box 2 Folder 9 | Personal and professional correspondence, T |
| Box 2 Folder 10 | Personal and professional correspondence, Tilleux, Eugene A. |
| Box 2 Folder 11 | Professional correspondence, University of Chicago Press |
| Box 2 Folder 12 | Personal and professional correspondence, W |
| Box 2 Folder 13 | Personal and professional correspondence, Y-Z |
| Box 2 Folder 14 | Reports on Research in the Department of Church History SEE ALSO Folder 14a |
| Box 2 Folder 14a | Miscellaneous notes on Church History in America (including Presbyterian Church, Congregational Church) |
| Box 2 Folder 15 | Official Documents, contracts, etc. |
| Box 2 Folder 16 | Speeches on Methodist Ecumenical Conference-undated. |
| Box 2 Folder 17 | Miscellaneous documents |
| Box 2 Folder 18 | Manuscripts-Sweet |
| Box 2 Folder 19 | Mss (various chapters) on Religion in Colonial America |
| Box 2 Folder 20 | Mss on Religion in Colonial America (cont.) |
| Box 2 Folder 21 | Notes on Religion in Kentucky |
| Box 3 Folder 1 | The Missionary Societies-Don W. Holter |
| Box 3 Folder 2 | The Times, Life and Letters of N. C. Clark-Cornell E. Talley |
| Box 3 Folder 3 | A Study and Comparison of Preaching in the United States-Merrill E. Gaddis |
| Box 3 Folder 4 | The First Presbyterian Church of Lancaster Ohio-Benjamin F. Paist |
| Box 3 Folder 5 | Transcendentalism |
| Box 3 Folder 6 | The Congregational View of the Plan of Union-A. T. DeGroot |
| Box 3 Folder 7 | Congregational Home Missionary Activity...-Thomas P. Inabinett |
| Box 3 Folder 8 | The Evangelical Association as a Factor in the Development of the West-Charles Osolin |
| Box 3 Folder 9 | Foreign Missions Controversy in the Northern Baptist Convention-Merrill L. Hutchins |
| Box 3 Folder 10 | Church Polities as they relate to...the Missouri Synod-Daniel Schulz |
| Box 3 Folder 11 | Toleration and Religious Liberty in New Hampshire-T. Edgar Lyon |
| Box 3 Folder 12 | Religion and the American Destiny-Jim Boyack |
| Box 3 Folder 13 | The Work of Lyman Beecher...-Wm. Kyle Shown |
| Box 3 Folder 14 | Post Civil War Revivalism-Rolland Sheafor |
| Box 3 Folder 15 | The Rise of Endowments of Church Institutions-Edwin A. Briggs |
| Box 3 Folder 16 | The Churches of Massachusetts (known as Colored)-Johnson W. Hill |
| Box 3 Folder 17 | The Columbia-Duck Creek-Pleasant Ridge Branch of the Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati and Columbia-E. R. Booth |
| Box 3 Folder 18 | The Anti-Slavery Movement as a cause of the Presbyterian Schism of 1837 |