A Guide to the Oscar Murray Addison Papers,
1834-1915
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| Creator: | Addison, Oscar Murray |
| Title: | Oscar Murray Addison
Papers |
| Dates: | 1834-1915 |
| Abstract: | Addison was a Methodist
clergyman (1820-1898), circuit rider in the Texas Conference, served in the
Confederate Army, represented the American Bible Association in Texas, and
became charter member of the Northwest Texas Conference in 1866. Papers
document the history of the Methodist Church in Texas as well as the Addison
family and Addison’s career. |
| Accession No.: | AR 1934 |
| Extent: | 3 feet |
| Language: | Materials
are written in English. |
| Repository: | Center for American History,The
University of Texas at Austin |
Methodist clergyman (1820-1898), circuit
rider in the Texas Conference, served in the Confederate Army, represented the
American Bible Association in Texas, became charter member of the Northwest
Texas Conference in 1866.
Papers document the history of the
Methodist Church in Texas as well as the Addison family and Addison’s career.
Included are correspondence, reminiscences, diaries, financial papers, legal
papers, minutes, resolutions, broadsides, notes, newspaper clippings, pictorial
items, certificates and literary productions consisting of poetry and a
manuscript biography of Texas pioneer Methodist preacher Joseph P. Sneed, as
well as two typescript copies.
Access Restrictions
Unrestricted access.
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| Subjects |
| | Addison, Oscar Murray, 1820-1898. |
| | Mann, Horace,
1796-1959--Photographs. |
| | Sneed, Joseph P., 1804-1881. |
| | American Bible Society. |
| | Clergy--Texas. |
| | Methodist Church--Texas. |
| | Methodist Episcopal
Church--Texas. |
| | Religious literature. |
| | United States--History--Civil
War, 1861-1865. |
Oscar Murray Addison Papers, 1834-1915,
Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Detailed Description of the Papers
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Inventory
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| 2A103 | | | Journal of church conference held at Montgomery, Texas,
1839-1850 |
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| 2A120 | | | Corrrespondence: |
| | | | 1834-1952 |
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| 2A121 | | | | 1853-1864 |
| | | | 1865-1909, undated |
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| 2A123 | | | Letters as Bible agent,
1877-1878 |
| | | Legal instruments,
1839-1898 |
| | | Minutes, resolutions and other notes on church government,
1834-1892, undated |
| | | Sermons,
1843-1897 |
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| 2A124 | | | Sermons,
undated |
| | | Writings to church publications,
1842-1898 |
| | | Manuscript notes |
| | | Manuscript writings |
| | | Nashville, Texas, mission |
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| 2A125 | | | Diaries and private journals,
1852-1859 |
| | | Private journals,
undated |
| | | “Life and Times of Rev. Joseph P. Sneed” |
| | | Joseph P. Sneed’s journal,
1839-1840 |
| | | Reports and private notes |
| | | Poetry |
| | | Account papers,
1847-1892 |
| | | Account books,
1854-1877, 1883-1884 |
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| 2A126 | | | Personal certificates,
1847-1848 |
| | | Printed materials |
| | | Newspaper clippings,
1860-1914 |
| | | Miscellaneous |
| | | Fragments |
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| 2Q399 | | | “The Life and Times of Rev. Joseph P. Sneed, A Pioneer
Methodist Preacher Late a Member of the North West Texas Annual Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South” |
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| 3S102 | | | Photographs and pictorial: |
| | | | Unidentified man, albumen [?] photograph,
undated |
| | | | Horace Mann, president of Antioch College, Yellow
Springs, Ohio, copper engraving [intaglio print?], by J.C. Buttre, from a
daguerreotype, inscription on reverse “Found among papers captured at the
taking of Brashear City, June 23rd, 1863,”
undated |
| | | | Rev. Bishop James O. Andrews, D.D., copper engraving
[intaglio print?], by J.C. Buttre, New York, NY, from a daguerreotype by C.C.
Hughes,
undated |
| | | | Thomas O. Summers, D.D., steel engraving [?], woodcut
[?], [relief print?], by J.W. Orr,
undated |
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| 3S142 | | | Oversize materials: |
| | | | Marriage certificate for James H. Addison and Elizabeth
Montgomery, performed by Oscar M. Addison,
June 5, 1856 |
| | | | Passport of W.B. Krumbhaar, from New Orleans, Louisiana,
to Havana, Cuba,
May 2, 1866 |
| | | | Blank form, statistical report for use in Methodist
churches [?],
undated |
| | | | Three blank certificates of dismissal, two for Sunday
school pupils, one for a teacher, in the Methodist Episcopal Church, together
on one paper |
| | | | Our Little People, Sunday school publication, Southern
Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tennessee, four issues printed on one
sheet,
March 2, 9, 15, 23, 1879 |
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| Map collection | | | Map of Farwell Heights, an addition of Waco, McLennan
County, Texas,
ca. 1860 |
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