John C. Calhoun Newton papers, 1870-1931
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Summary
- Creator:
- Newton, John C. Calhoun
- Abstract:
- This collection contains letters and papers of John Caldwell Calhoun Newton, a Methodist minister and missionary to Japan, concerning his education at Kentucky Wesleyan College, Kentucky Military Institute, and Johns Hopkins University; his experience as a minister in Kentucky and Virginia; and his career as dean of the theological school at Kwansei Gakuin Union Mission College and Seminary in Kobe, Japan, 1888-1897, and president of that institution, 1913-1923.
- Extent:
- 8 Linear Feet (16 boxes, 3,732 items (including 132 vols.))
- Language:
- Materials are in English and Japanese.
- Collection ID:
- RL.10132
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains letters and papers of John Caldwell Calhoun Newton, a Methodist minister and missionary to Japan, concerning his education at Kentucky Wesleyan College, Kentucky Military Institute, and Johns Hopkins University; his experience as a minister in Kentucky and Virginia; and his career as dean of the theological school at Kwansei Gakuin Union Mission College and Seminary in Kobe, Japan, 1888-1897, and president of that institution, 1913-1923.
Papers contain family letters and correspondence with mission leaders of the church in America and missionaries of all churches in Japan. Volumes include sermon and lecture notes, some in Japanese; notebooks on courses Newton taught or had taken as a student, including 5 volumes of notes taken at Johns Hopkins University on G. Stanley Hall's lectures on philosophy, education, psychology, and psycho-physics, and one volume of notes on a history course taught by Herbert Baxter Adams; a Kwansei Gakuin classbook; a list of subscribers to the Twentieth Century Educational Fund of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; a book of Kwansei Gakuin accounts; diaries, 1868-1869 and 1869-1879; a scrapbook; journals, 1881, 1888, and 1924; memoranda books, 1886-1888, 1889-1890, 1895-1896, 1898, and 1899-1900; pastor's books for Hillsboro, Kentucky, 1876-1877, Somerset, Kentucky, 1878-1879, Carlisle, Kentucky, 1879-1881, and Portsmouth, Virginia, 1900-1901; and notes on the scriptures and Newton's reading, including a large amount on the history of Scotland, Ireland, and Great Britain.
- Biographical / historical:
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John Caldwell Calhoun Newton spent his career as a minister, missionary, and college professor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Acquisition information:
- The John C. Calhoun Newton Papers were acquired by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library in 1944.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Rubenstein Library staff.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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