Scope and Contents
The Harry P. Dewey Papers, 1896-1936, document the professional work of Dewey. The collection is arranged according to the following categories: biographical material, travel journal, meditations, addresses, sermons, prayers and miscellaneous literary manuscripts. The bulk of the collection consists of addresses and sermons.
Dates
- 1896 - 1936
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from Andover Newton Theological School in 2017.
Arrangement
The collection is organized in seven series:
Series I. Biographical material
Series II. Travel Journal
Series III. Meditations
Series IV. Addresses
Series V. Sermons
Series VI. Prayers
Series VII. Miscellaneous Literary Manuscripts
Series I. Biographical material
Series II. Travel Journal
Series III. Meditations
Series IV. Addresses
Series V. Sermons
Series VI. Prayers
Series VII. Miscellaneous Literary Manuscripts
Extent
3 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
The collection documents the professional work of Harry Pinneo Dewey (1861-1937), a Congregational minister in New Hampshire, Brooklyn, and Minneapolis.
Biographical / Historical
Harry Pinneo Dewey was born October 30, 1861, in Toulon, Il. He graduated from Williams College in 1884 and completed the course of study at Andover Theological Seminary in 1887. He was ordained at South Congregational Church in Concord, NH, October 12, 1887, and served that church as minister until 1900. From New Hampshire he moved to New York to become minister of Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn. After seven years in Brooklyn, in 1907 Dewey became minister of Plymouth Church in Minneapolis, where he remained until his retirement in 1935.
Dewey was a trustee of several schools and Congregational organizations: Andover Theological Seminary (1907-1937), Home Missionary Society (1908-1909), Carleton College (1911-1937), American Missionary Association (1914-1923), and Straight University (1916-1935). He was also an active member of several other organizations: National Service Commission of Congregational Churches (1917-1919), National Council Commission on Missions (1921-1927), National Council Commission of Twelve for Unification of Congregational Missionary Societies (1923-1927), Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America from National Council (1923-1930).
Dewey died in Babson Park, Fl., April 26, 1937.
Dewey was a trustee of several schools and Congregational organizations: Andover Theological Seminary (1907-1937), Home Missionary Society (1908-1909), Carleton College (1911-1937), American Missionary Association (1914-1923), and Straight University (1916-1935). He was also an active member of several other organizations: National Service Commission of Congregational Churches (1917-1919), National Council Commission on Missions (1921-1927), National Council Commission of Twelve for Unification of Congregational Missionary Societies (1923-1927), Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America from National Council (1923-1930).
Dewey died in Babson Park, Fl., April 26, 1937.
- Title
- Guide to the Harry P. Dewey Papers
- Author
- Andover Newton Theological School and Yale Divinity Library staff
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Yale Divinity Library Repository