This series contains Josiah Strong biography manuscript drafts by Elsie Strong with commentary notes by Margery Strong. Drafts are subdivided into Parts 1-4, and these parts are further divided by chapter. Chapters encapsulate Strong's entire life, from early childhood and background, early influences, his time out west as a missionary, his role in social service and religion, and his later years. The title of this unpublished manuscript was Josiah Strong: Social Pioneer, and was worked on for several decades by the daughters and Nathaniel Pratt, Charles Macfarland, C.Howard Hopkins, and Dorothea Muller.
This series is arranged by book section.
Box 1.1 Folder 1
Correspondence and Deposit of materials to archive, 1969
Box 1.1 Folder 2
J Strong Biography- offprint by D.R. Miller; Statement by N. M. Pratt, circa 1969
Box 1.1 Folder 3-9
Manuscript drafts: 1a Part 3, circa 1886 -- 1916
Box 1.1 Folder 10-13
Manuscript drafts: Part 1, Chapters I-IV, circa 1847 -- 1916
Box 1.1 Folder 14-18
Manuscript drafts: Part 2, Chapters V-XIII, circa 1871 -- 1876
Box 1.1 Folder 19-26
Manuscript drafts: 1c Part 4 and 1d, circa 1881 -- 1916
Box 1.1 Folder 27
Manuscript Outlines Based on Pratt's Work, circa 1881 -- 1916
Redrafted Contents List Outlines of Chapter XIX South America with JS travel diary Chapter III Creative influences; Chapter II Personality; Chapter XVI Egypt
Box 1.1 Folder 28
Death Announcements of J. Strong: Clippings, Correspondence Transcriptions, Funeral Addresses, 1916
Box 1.2 Folder 1
As His Children Knew Him; In His Thought and Work, circa 1930 -- 1939
Box 1.2 Folder 2
Chapter XII: The Evangelical Alliance and Social Point of View, final written manuscript, circa 1900 -- 1916
Box 1.2 Folder 3
Ancestry; Boyhood; Cheyenne; Return to Northern Ohio, circa 1900 -- 1916
Box 1.2 Folder 4
Cincinnati; Chapter XXII: Neighbors and Friends; Hospital,, 1951
Box 1.2 Folder 5
South America and Social Needs of Latin America, circa 1900 -- 1916
Box 1.2 Folder 6
Misc., 1889 -- 1905
Areas for Consideration by International Congress on General Economic Expansion, Belgium, Source Documents and Notes, 1905 Report of Evangelical Alliance House to House Visitation, 1889; Content of Clippings re: JS and John Brown Draft Letter and Autobiographical Notes
Box 1.2 Folder 7
Misc., 1886 -- 1938
Miscellaneous Sources and Clippings: Testimonial to JS from Central Congregational Church, Cincinnati, 1886 Draft letter to First Cong'l. Church, Cheyenne for 25th Anniversary, 1894 Clippings re JS, 1895 – 1898 Transcribed Comments re Death of JS Postal envelopes, 1887-1938
Box 1.2 Folder 8
Clippings and Articles by and about JS, annotated by ES/MS, 1898 -- 1916
Box 1.2 Folder 9
Misc., 1891 -- 1916
Clippings: Obituaries; Book Reviews, 1891 Opposition to Rockefeller funding Addresses and speeches delivered by JS at 75th Anniversary of Western Reserve University, 1891-1916 Invitation to Banquet for Emperor of China, 1906
Box 1.2 Folder 10
Chapter IX: Conferences, Notes and Documents, circa 1900 -- 1916
Box 1.2 Folder 11
Chapter X: London and the Continent, circa 1900 -- 1916
Box 1.2 Folder 12
First Manuscript and Notes: Background, circa 1900 -- 1916
Box 1.2 Folder 13
First Manuscript and Notes: Cheyenne; Boyhood, circa 1900 -- 1916
Box 1.2 Folder 14
Interchurch Conference of Federation Pamphlet, 1905 Background Notes, circa 1900 -- 1916
Box 1.2 Folder 15
Chapter VIII: Evangelical Alliance-Notes and Documents, circa 1893 -- 1916
Box 1.2 Folder 16
MacMillan: Notes and Correspondence re: N. Pratt's Manuscript, 1940
Box 1.2 Folder 17
Manuscript notes and clippings, circa 1900 -- 1916
Box 1.3 Folder 1
NY Times Book Review: Rebel America, 1934
Box 1.3 Folder 2
Tributes and Correspondence about JS- YMCA, circa 1934
Box 1.3 Folder 3
Notes, Correspondence, American Institute of Social Service, 1906 -- 1910
Box 1.3 Folder 4-5
Chapter XI draft: International interests, [19??] Arbitration treaty at Gridelwald, circa 1896 -- 1916
Box 1.3 Folder 6
Chapter IX draft: International and national conferences, 1885 -- 1891
Box 1.3 Folder 7
Manuscript draft Ch. XII: Evangelical Alliance First MS, circa 1900 -- 1916
Box 1.3 Folder 8-10
Drafts for Manuscript 2 on JS Biography by M. Strong, circa 1900 -- 1916
Box 1.3 Folder 11
Draft Clippings for Ch. I-IX, circa 1900 -- 1916
Box 1.3 Folder 12
Draft clippings and discarded notes for Ch. XII, 1938
This series contains correspondence and notes written by Josiah Strong, personal effects and memorabila, a travel diary, and other materials.
This series is unarranged.
Box 1A.4 Folder 1
Social Consciousness Notes, circa 1855 -- 1954
Box 1A.4 Folder 2
Chapter XXVIII: The Problem of Wealth, circa 1855 -- 1954
Box 1A.4 Folder 3
Plans for Our World: Introductions, Preface, Appendix, circa 1855 -- 1954
Box 1A.4 Folder 4
Notes on The Great Discord and Social Consciousness Publisher correspondence, 1895 -- 1913
Box 1A.4 Folder 5
Misc. files and memorabilia, circa 1855 -- 1954
Offices and Events Memorabilia; Clippings on JS 1889-1915 Poem entitled The Closed Gentian by JS; Book Reviews Henry Farwell Tribute to JS; Obituary of Major William Strong, 1914 Annual Report of Evangelical Alliance 1886-1887 Studies in Social Christianity, 1918
Box 1A.4 Folder 6
Personal effects, circa 1855 -- 1954
Minister's license, passport Photographs of family members, including J. Strong, Senior Bisbee and Strong Family Genealogy, 1939 Attendance record for Mary Strong [sister?], 1855 Western Reserve documents Announcement of Margery Strong Death, 1954
Box 1A.4 Folder 7-8
Record of South American Trip Part 1, circa 1855 -- 1954
Box 1A.4 Folder 9
Letter to NY Times Editor from JS about Civil War and Journal brochures, circa 1855 -- 1954
This series contains correspondence from and to Josiah Strong, including correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt, Jacob Riis, WJ Pratt, William Dodge, Philip Schaff, founder of Howard University Major General Oliver O. Howard, Walter Rauschenbusch, and Woodrow Wilson. Organizations and topics in his correspondence include but are not limited to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), the Evangelical Alliance, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the situation in Turkey in 1896 and the missionaries there, the YMCA, and various divinity schools and seminaries. This series also contains correspondence between Strong's daughters Elsie and Margery to those involved with his biography, including publishers, scholars, and universities.
This series is arranged in chronological order.