James Morris Whiton papers, circa 1819 -- 1929

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Series 1: Journals, 1847 -- 1920

This series is open for research.

1.5 linear feet; 1.5 linear feet; 3 boxes

This series contains diaries and logs of journeys for Whiton. There are multiple diaries for the late 1880s period specifically.

This series is arranged roughly chronologically.



Box [Ut00171913 ] 1:1 Journals , 1847, 1850 -- 1880



Box [Ut00171921 ] 1:2 Journals and supplement, 1858 -- 1901



Box 1:3 Journals, 1902 -- 1920

Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1819 -- 1929

This series is open for research.

2.5 linear feet; 2.5 linear feet; 5 boxes

This series contains letters to individuals, publishers, companies, organizations and committees that Whiton was involved with. Included are letters from Herbert A. Youtz at Auburn Seminary and letters regarding an essay prize that Whiton won at Talladega College. In the folders with the topic of Modern Theology are writers such as Walter Rauschenbusch and McGiffert, W. Dougla MacKenzie at Hartford Theological Seminary, Charles Francis Carter, Nathanial Schmidt, and Frederic Palmer. Also contained in the series are two bound letter books. The first, called "Valuable Letters," contains material related to a proposition to become pastor at a church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts; settlement in Lynn; and overtures from other churches that Whiton declined. These letters are from a variety of locations, not just Massachusetts. Also includes letters from parents regarding their sons' work during the term and a memorial service booklet for President James A. Garfield from 1881.The second book, "Letters worth keeping," contains similar material including from the American Home Missionary Society; about his emigration to England; the New York Society of Christian Socialists; and from a variety of theological seminaries.

This series is arranged by type of correspondence.



Box 2:1 Folder 1-7 A-Z, 1872 -- 1919


Box 2:1 Folder 8 Correspondence, 1864 -- 1919

Outlook Company, 1907-1919 Publication of and about Latin and Green Works, 1864-1889


Box 2:1 Folder 9 Correspondence, 1903 -- 1920

The Life of God in the Life of his World, 1918-1919 Talladega College, 1903; 1918-1920


Box 2:1 Folder 10-11 Works on Modern Theology, 1898 -- 1908



Box 2:2 Folder 1 Correspondence, 1878 -- 1918

Publications, 1878; 1885; 1917 The Bible as a Self-Correcting Book, 1890; 1918


Box 2:2 Folder 2 British letters, 1888 -- 1891


Box 2:2 Folder 3 Rectorship, Hopkins Grammar School, 1854 -- 1864


Box 2:2 Folder 4 First Congregational Church, Lynn, Massachusetts, 1865 -- 1869


Box 2:2 Folder 5 First Congregational Church, Log Pastoral Activity, 1865 -- 1869


Box 2:2 Folder 6 History, North Congregational Church of Lynn, Massachusetts, 1868 -- 1875


Box 2:2 Folder 7 North Congregational Church, Log Pastoral Activity, 1868 -- 1875


Box 2:2 Folder 8 Newark Council, 1879


Box 2:2 Folder 9 Willistoniana School, East Hampton, 1876 -- 1878


Box 2:2 Folder 10 History, First Congregational Church of Newark, New Jersey, 1879 -- 1885



Box 2:3 Folder 1 Trinity Congregational Church, New York City, 1887 -- 1891


Box 2:3 Folder 2 Correspondence, 1901

Haworth New Jersey Parish, 1901 Ministerial Conferences and Advertisements of Congregations


Box 2:3 Folder 3 Correspondence, 1899 -- 1900

Second International Congregational Council, 1899 Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Missions, 1900


Box 2:3 Folder 4 Family correspondence, 1877 -- 1917

Biographical Data and Bibliography 25th Marriage Anniversary Event, 1880 Draft Poems to Mary Elya, 1877-1917


Box 2:3 Folder 5 Family correspondence, 1920

Helen [daughter], 1920 Little Morris


Box 2:3 Folder 6 12 Sermons by J.M. Whiton's Father[?], 1819 -- 1850


Box 2:3 Folder 7 Family correspondence, 1902 -- 1919

From Bartlett and Howard Whiton to Grandparents, 1902-1919 Helen Herrick to J.M. Whiton, 1907-1911


Box 2:3 Folder 8 Family correspondence, 1844 -- 1920


Box 2:3 Folder 9 Condolences on death of Whiton's Mother, 1906


Box 2:3 Folder 10 Death of J.M. Whiton, 1920 -- 1921


Box 2:3 Folder 11 Memorial Service: Address, Correspondence, Notices, circa 1920 -- 1929



Box 2:4 Book, "Valuable Letters,", 1864 -- 1888



Box 2:5 Book, "Letters Worth Keeping,", 1889 -- 1910

Series 3: Writings, 1848 -- 1919

This series is open for research.

3.25 linear feet; 3.25 linear feet; 7 boxes

This series contains manuscript and print addresses, essays, and notes, as well as sermons. The newspaper articles were either by or about Whiton. There are also articles that influenced or were collected by Whiton himself. Whiton was an active reviewer of books and other publications, and this series also contains information on those. The "topic files" contain information and articles on specific organizations and people that influenced Whiton. This includes Henry Ward Beecher, the Federal Council of Churches in America, liturgy, slavery, Church Union, and Westminster Catechism.

This series is arranged by material type.



Box 3:1 Folder 1 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"The Alleged Infallibility of the Scriptures Practically Considered," "The Anti-Christian Use of the Bible," "Business Ethics," "Christology," "Church Action for Political Morality," "The Coming of the Son of Man"


Box 3:1 Folder 2 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"Damage by a Good Word," "The Divine Trilogy as Biological Reality"


Box 3:1 Folder 3 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"An Ethical Creed," "Ethical Regulations," "The Gambling Evil," "The God-Consciousness of Jesus," "Inefficient Religion and Efficient," "The Inspiration of the Prophets," "Introduction to the Meeting of the General Assembly of Congregational Churches of Massachusetts"


Box 3:1 Folder 4 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"John Wiclif as a Social Leader," "Missions and Massacres," "Modern Theology," "Moorehead Lake," "The Moral Crisis Confronting the Church," "Moral Defects in Recent Sunday School Teaching," "Morality Real and Unreal," "Outworn Theological Ideas"


Box 3:1 Folder 5 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"The Place of Departed Spirits," "Practicing the Presence of God," "Public Sentiment," "Premature Burial," "The Reaction of Ethics upon Economics"


Box 3:1 Folder 6 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"Religion in Our Public Schools," "Religion Versus Customary Morality," "Religious Solidarity"



Box 3:2 Folder 1 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"Report on the Work of the Churches and State of Religion," "Retrospect and Prospect," "The Revival of Atheism," "Selections, Chiefly from the Holy Scriptures, for Devotional Use in Public and Social Worship," "Self Realization as the Christian Aim, "Some Implicates of Theism"


Box 3:2 Folder 2 Articles, essays, and notes, circa 1866 -- 1919

"The Teaching of Christ Respecting the Duration of Future Punishment," "The Teaching of Paul Respecting the Duration of Future Punishment," "Theological Bearings of Modern Philosophy and Science," "Through the Phenomena of Change to the Reality of God," "Trinity and/or Creed," "U.R.S.," "Victim or Warrior?"


Box 3:2 Folder 3-4 For "The Christian Union", 1888 -- 1896


Box 3:2 Folder 5-6 For "The Homiletic Review", 1899 -- 1917



Box 3:3 Folder 1 Interludes in a Time of Change (Reviews), 1909


Box 3:3 Folder 2 For "The Outlook", 1895 -- 1910


Box 3:3 Folder 3 For "The Universalist Leader", 1915


Box 3:3 Folder 4 General, 1894 -- 1919


Box 3:3 Folder 5 Sermons, 1885 -- 1901

"Peace by Power," "Contrasts of a Century," "Reconciled to God," "A Quarter Century Retrospect of Change and Progress in Christian Thought," "Fiftieth Anniversary of North Church," "The Law of Christ," "Christian Morality,"


Box 3:3 Folder 6-8 Sermons, general, 1868 -- 1910



Box 3:4 Sermon scrapbook, 1871 -- 1874



Box 3:5 Folder 1-2 "New Theology," Controversy over Whiton's sermons, General Content by Whiton, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:5 Folder 3-4 Articles that Influenced Whiton, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:5 Folder 5 Contributed and Editorial, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:5 Folder 6 Articles about Book Reviews, National Tribune and New York Herald, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:5 Folder 7 Articles by Whiton, Washington D.C. and London, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:5 Folder 8 Scraps from English Papers, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:5 Folder 9 Correspondence from journals, circa 1866 -- 1919



Box 3:6 Folder 1-4 Reviews of Books and Publications, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:6 Folder 5-6 Publications Collected by Whiton, circa 1866 -- 1919


Box 3:6 Folder 7-11 Topic Files, circa 1866 -- 1919



Box 3:7 Folder 1 Poetry, circa 1890 -- 1910


Box 3:7 Folder 2 Prizes for Writing, 1848 -- 1891


Box 3:7 Folder 3 Translation Notes, Lecture on Cato the Elder, circa 1848 -- 1891


Box 3:7 Folder 4-5 Practical Ethics, 1863 -- 1904


Box 3:7 Folder 6 Henry Ward Beecher, circa 1863 -- 1904


Box 3:7 Folder 7-9 Unpublished Manuscript: From Seers to Prophets, 1885

Series 4: New York State Conference of Religion, 1898 -- 1915

This series is open for research.

2.25 linear feet; 2.25 linear feet; 5 boxes

This series contains information about the New York State Conference of Religion (NYSCR). Included is the original register of those in attendance, correspondence related to the Conference, published proceedings of the conference, and addresses to and related to the Conference. The addresses before the New York State Conference of Religion usually contained four numbers in the series with meetings being held regularly through the year. Some of the numbers are missing in each year. Meetings were held throughout the state, including in Poughkeepsie and Schenectady. Whiton was very involved in the conference and served as the Chairman of the Executive Committee. Other members of the Executive Committee were Josiah Strong, Henry Mottet, Reverend W. C. Gannett, and L. A. Maynard. Reverend Leighton Williams served as the General Secretary, with Thomas Whittaker as Treasurer.

This series is arranged by material type.



Box 4:1 Conference register book and correspondence, circa 1899



Box [Ut00172073 ] 4:2 Correspondence, 1899 -- 1900



Box [Ut00172081 ] 4:3 Proceedings, 1900 -- 1906



Box [Ut00172090 ] 4:4 Published Addresses, Series 1-13, 1903 -- 1915



Box [Ut00172103 ] 4:5 Folder 1 Statement of Purpose, 1898 -- 1899


Box [Ut00172103 ] 4:5 Folder 2-7 Meetings, Correspondence, Minutes and Reports, 1900 -- 1915


Box [Ut00172103 ] 4:5 Folder 8 Ancient Hebrew Ethics, 1902


Box [Ut00172103 ] 4:5 Folder 9 Chairman's Address, circa 1903 -- 1913


Box [Ut00172103 ] 4:5 Folder 10 Typed and Annotated Addresses, circa 1903 -- 1913


Box [Ut00172103 ] 4:5 Folder 11 Presentations: Ethics of Money, Applied Morality, Moral Crisis and Revival, 1905


Box [Ut00172103 ] 4:5 Folder 12 Presentations: Music; Protestant Reformers, circa 1904


Box [Ut00172103 ] 4:5 Folder 13 Newspaper Clippings about Conference, 1900 -- 1906

Series 5: Photographs and scrapbooks, circa 1870 -- 1916

This series is open for research.

1 linear feet; 1 linear foot; 2 boxes

This series contains photographs depicting Whiton himself, locations he lived, and other well-known theologians in the field, as well as scrapbooks with loose papers, pamphlets, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.

This series is arranged by format.



Box [Ut00172111 ] 5:1 Photographs, circa 1870 -- 1906

Including Mrs. W.B. Brown; Dr. W. B. Brown, predecessor in Newark; Unidentified, Oxford, 1886; Portraits of James Morris Whiton, 1891; Antrim, New Hampshire; H. Trumbull; Rev. J. Brierley, 1906; Whiton Portrait, Lynn, Massachusetts; Whiton Portrait, Birmingham, 1887; Whiton Portrait, Newark, New Jersey, 1882; Whiton Portrait, August 1891; Baldwin Coolidge; [A.] W. Dale; Alfred R. Wallace



Box [Ut00172120 ] 5:2 Scrapbooks, 1876 -- 1916