Kaercher and Packer family papers
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Letters to Kaercher commenting on education, economic and social conditions, the costs of travel, revivals among students and laymen, Taylorism (New Haven theology), Millerism (Millerite movement), the need of ministers among German immigrants of Ohio and Pennsylvania, the American Tract Society, religion on the frontier, epidemics, the Reverend Albert Barnes, Dr. Tyng, and other divines; commissions and reports to the American Home Missionary Society, licenses to preach, accounts as to expenses and salaries; correspondence of Rev. Kaercher during the Civil War with the Woman's Central Association of Relief, sermons, and a few Anti-Masonic and Anti-Slavery items. Also, Packer family papers, including deeds, agreements, accounts, receipts, personal and business correspondence of the Packer, Mason, and Kaercher families; veterinary formulas of Johnathan Packer; includes diaries, essays, poetry, and miscellanea. Families are centered in Preston, Chenango County, New York.
Dates
- 1789-1938.
Creator
- Kaercher family. (Family)
- Packer family. (Family)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
George Kaercher was a divinity student at Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vermont, and Western Reserve, Ohio and a minister in Ohio.
Extent
2.5 cubic feet.
4 volumes.
2 mapcase folders.
Abstract
Correspondence and other papers relating the life of George Kaercher, who was a divinity student at Burr Seminary in Manchester, Vermont and Western Reserve College in Ohio, and later a minister in Ohio. Also includes papers of the Packer family.
Physical Description
Correspondence, commissions, reports, licenses, financial accounts, sermons, deeds, agreements, veterinary formulas, diaries, essays, poetry, and other items.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- N. Dean
- Date completed:
- February 1998
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, December 2002
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, August 2018
- American Home Missionary Society
- American Tract Society
- Antislavery movements.
- Barnes, Albert.
- Burr Seminary
- Chenango County (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
- Chenango County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Chenango County (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
- Clergy.
- Diaries.
- Families -- New York (State) -- Preston.
- Freemasonry.
- Immigrants.
- Kaercher, George.
- Mason family.
- Millerite movement.
- New Haven theology.
- Packer, Johnathan.
- Revivals.
- Sermons.
- Theological seminaries.
- Veterinary drugs.
- Western Reserve College
- Woman\'s Central Association of Relief
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by N. Dean
- Date
- December 2002
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu