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Box 1

 Container

Contains 33 Results:

Reproduction of Rhode Island's Civil Rights Act of 1885

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection documents the life and work of Mahlon Van Horne, who served as pastor of the Union Congregational Church in Newport, Rhode Island, for 28 years, beginning in 1869, along with papers from his family. Included is the original manuscript of his sermon, “The Negro in Rhode Island,” that he delivered in 1887, a letter he wrote October 15, 1902, reporting the death of his son in a horse-riding accident in St. Thomas, a letter addressed to Florence (Van Horne) Miller, a collection...
Dates: 1862 - 1911

Letter from Mahlon Van Horne to David Baker, Jr. (Reproduction), 1885-04-07

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection documents the life and work of Mahlon Van Horne, who served as pastor of the Union Congregational Church in Newport, Rhode Island, for 28 years, beginning in 1869, along with papers from his family. Included is the original manuscript of his sermon, “The Negro in Rhode Island,” that he delivered in 1887, a letter he wrote October 15, 1902, reporting the death of his son in a horse-riding accident in St. Thomas, a letter addressed to Florence (Van Horne) Miller, a collection...
Dates: 1885-04-07

Van Horne family papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS 024.001
Scope and Contents This collection documents the life and work of Mahlon Van Horne, who served as pastor of the Union Congregational Church in Newport, Rhode Island, for 28 years, beginning in 1869, along with papers from his family. Included is the original manuscript of his sermon, “The Negro in Rhode Island,” that he delivered in 1887, a letter he wrote October 15, 1902, reporting the death of his son in a horse-riding accident in St. Thomas, a letter addressed to Florence (Van Horne) Miller, a collection...
Dates: 1862 - 1911