Guide to the Papers of Samuel W. Davis c1820-1914
1820-1914
Metadata Details
- Title
- Samuel W. Davis papers 1820-1914
- Creator
- Subject
- Methodist Episcopal Church, Coal mines and mining--Pennsylvania--Fayette County, Coal miners--Pennsylvania--Fayette County, Floods--Pennsylvania--Johnstown, Hungarian Americans--Pennsylvania--Fayette County, Immigrants--Pennsylvania--Fayette County, Slavic Americans--Pennsylvania--Fayette County, Slovak Americans--Pennsylvania--Fayette County, Temperance--Societies, etc, Crawford County (Pa.)--Education, Europe--Description and travel, Fayette County (Pa.)--Religion, Fayette County (Pa.)--Social life and customs, Homestead (Pa.)--Religion, Homestead (Pa.)--Social life and customs, McKeesport (Pa.)--Religion, McKeesport (Pa.)--Social life and customs, Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Religion, Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Social life and customs, Somerset County (Pa.)--Religion, Somerset County (Pa.)--Social life and customs, West Virginia--Religion, West Virginia--Social life and customs, Westmoreland County (Pa.)--Religion, Westmoreland County (Pa.)--Social life and customs, Wilkinsburg (Pa.)--Religion, Wilkinsburg (Pa.)--Social life and customs
- Description
- Papers include diaries, a book of sermons, correspondence, essays and other sundry items. The bulk of the materials are diaries kept by Samuel Davis from 1868 to 1914, documenting his daily activities, along with general discussion of 19th and early 20th century life in the region., Catherine Davis gift papers 1992 1992.161, Samuel W. Davis was a Methodist Episcopal minister who was active as a missionary and temperence reformer in southwestern Pennsylvania in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries., Gift of Catherine Davis, 1992., Processed MSS #17 9/15/94 J. Geller., Inventory available.
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Davis, Samuel W. , 1839-1914, Davis, Mary K., Davis family, Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.), Coke Mission, Methodist Church (U.S.) Pittsburgh Conference., Women's Christian Temperance Movement, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- Identifier
- pitt: US-QQS-MSS17
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-MSS17, http://collection1.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/search/collection/davis, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Fayette County, Crawford County (Pa.), Europe, Fayette County (Pa.), Fayette County (Pa.), Homestead (Pa.), Homestead (Pa.), McKeesport (Pa.), McKeesport (Pa.), Pittsburgh (Pa.), Pittsburgh (Pa.), Somerset County (Pa.), Somerset County (Pa.), West Virginia, West Virginia, Westmoreland County (Pa.), Westmoreland County (Pa.), Wilkinsburg (Pa.), Wilkinsburg (Pa.)
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/