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[Identification of item], John R. Pendell Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The John R. Pendell Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 1954 and 1956.
Processed by Walt Evans, May 2001
Encoded by Noah Huffman, April 2010
Accessions from 1954 and 1956 were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.
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John R. Pendell was a teacher, Baptist minister, and book salesman.
Collection consists of personal correspondence of several generations of the family of John R. Pendell, teacher, salesman, and Baptist minister, and of the related F. D. Ingersoll and Jeduthan Stevens families, discussing family finances, social life and customs in Massachusetts and New York, the need for education for various members of the family, religion, temperance and prohibition, and the presidential elections of 1884 and 1888.
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