Inventory of the James Cannon III Papers, 1912 - 1974
James Cannon III worked as an educator and
administrator at Trinity College and Duke University from
1919 to 1960, serving as Dean of the Divinity School from
1951 to 1958. The Canon papers contain correspondence,
manuscript drafts of sermons and publications, course
materials, subject files, clippings, photographs, ephemera,
and scrapbooks relating to the life and work of James
Cannon III. Major subjects include biblical literature and
the Bible as literature, religious education, missionary
training, history of religion, Christianity, Buddhism,
comparative religion, and the Cannon family, especially
James Cannon, Jr. and James Cannon IV.
- Title
- James Cannon III Papers, 1912 - 1974.
- Creator
-
Cannon, James,
1892-1960.
- Extent
- 4.6 Linear Feet,
, 4,500
Items
- Repository
- University Archives, Duke University
- Location
- For current information on
the location of these materials, please consult University
Archives, Duke University.
- Language
- English.
The Cannon papers were originally organized into
three main files and arranged alphabetically within these
files. Three series reflecting the original order were
created: Personal files and family history, Writings, and
Subject files. The Writings series was reorganized by type
of writing into three subseries: Sermons, Articles, and
Course materials. Some clippings files, reference
materials, gradebooks, and duplicates were removed from the
papers.
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Copyright for Official University records is
held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by
the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants,
as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Correspondence, clippings, publications,
photographs and ephemera primarily related to Cannon's life
and career. Typed note cards within some of the files
provide background information on major events and
cross-references to other files; a family member or office
assistant of Cannon most probably created these. Additional
personal and family photographs, clippings, and scrapbooks
can be found in Oversize Boxes 10 and 11.
Association of Methodist Theological Schools, 1958
Box 1
Bennett, William Wallace, 1939-1959
Box 1
Bishop Cannon's Own Story, 1950-1958
Box 1
Blackstone, [Virginia], 1960-1965
Box 1
Cannon, James, Jr., Bishop and Mrs., 1937-1964
Box 1
Cannon, Walter, 1943-1958, undated
Box 1
Cape Cod, Mass., July 1957
Box 1
Cartoons, James Cannon III, ca. 1954
Box 1
Chairman, Duke Divinity School Faculty, 1950
Box 1
Chaplaincy: Appointment, assignments, identity card, 1918-1919
Box 1
Citation, United States Army, 1918-1919
Box 1
Cleland, James T., 1950-1959
Box 1
Conference, Western North Carolina, 1959-1960
Box 1
Convocation and James A. Gray Lectures, 1953-1956
Box 1
Correspondence, 1958-1963
Box 1
Cushman, Robert E., 1958-1959
Box 1
Daily Suggesters [pocket calendars], 1950, 1952
Box 1
Installation as Dean, 1951
Box 1
Death and funeral notices, 1960
Box 2
Discharge, Army, 1918-1919, 1960
Box 2
Divinity School students, 1953-1967
Box 2
Duke Divinity School Bulletin, First editor, 1946
Box 2
Duke University, 1938-1955, undated
Box 2
Edens, A. Hollis, President, 1949-1960
Box 2
Edinburgh [University], 1919
Box 2
Faculty resolutions on death, 1960
Box 2
Faculty resolutions on retirement, 1958
Box 2
Famous Virginians' Dinner, 1957
Box 3
Federal Council of Churches, 1925
Box 3
First Division, 1918-1960
Box 3
France and Germany, World War I [photographs and post cards], ca. 1920
Box 3
Garrett Biblical Institute, 1924
Box 3
[Graduate Department of Religion], 1959
Box 3
History of Southern Methodist Missions, 1924-1927
Box 3
Holy Land [photographs], ca. 1937
Box 3
Honorary degrees, 1938, 1956
Box 3
Hope Valley [photographs], undated
Box 3
Ireland, World War I, ca. 1920
Box 3
Italy, Army YMCA, ca. 1918
Box 3
Jimmy [James Cannon IV], 1923-ca. 1934
Box 3
Kendall, Helen M., 1957-1958
Box 3
Kodak pictures (Assorted) [photographs of James Cannon III], 1938-1959
Box 3
Library Lectures, Duke Divinity School, 1955, 1959
Box 3
Memorial service, April 19, 1960
Box 3
Methodist Theological Seminaries, 1958-1960
Box 3
Missions, Courses in; Missionary Institutes; Missionary Alumni, 1950-1966
Box 4
National Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1960-1961
Box 4
Painting, Lura Bennett Cannon, 1957, undated
Box 4
Phi Beta Kappa, 1925, 1957-1960
Box 4
Photographs, 1914-1960, undated
Box 4
Princeton Theological Seminary, 1915-1917, 1924-1925, 1951
Box 4
Princeton University, 1924
Box 4
Princeton University Alumni Association, 1960
Box 4
Publications, 1932-[1958]
Box 4
Randolph-Macon College, 1956
Box 4
Registration Cards, 1917, 1942
Box 4
Those Who Remembered, 1960
Box 4
The Richmond Virginian, 1915
Box 4
Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 1921
Box 4
Seminars, Duke Divinity School, 1952-1956
Box 4
Sigma Chi [certificate of membership], 1912
Box 4
Spence, H. E., 1942-1963, undated
Box 4
Standard Training Schools, M. E. Church, South, 1922, 1924
Box 4
The Stars and Stripes, 1918
Box 4
Stockham, Herbert C., 1958-1960
Box 4
Supply Pastors' School, Duke Divinity School, 1954-1955
Box 4
A Tribute to Dean Cannon, 1958
Box 4
Trinity College, 1913-1955
Box 4
Correspondence, Margaret Faw, 1917-1919, undated
[5
folders]
Box 5
Automobile accident, 1952
Box 5
O'Brien-Glass correspondence, other papers in re-trial
Box 5
Guest book from memorial service for James Cannon III, 1960
Box 5
Research notes, manuscript drafts, clippings,
programs, and bulletins related to Cannon's sermons,
publications, and courses. Additional course-related
material can be found in the Subject Files series.
Organized by type of writing into the
following subseries: Sermons, Articles, and Course
materials; then arranged alphabetically by title within
each subseries.
At Ease with God, Randolph-Macon College Commencement, June 3, 1956
Box 6
Christ and Human Need, Duke University Church, February 28, 1954
Box 6
Christian Faith, Duke University Chapel, January 20, 1957
Box 6
The Christian Message, St. Paul Methodist Church, Durham, N. C., August 5, 1951
Box 6
The Christian Ministry; or, How Shall They Hear Without a Preacher? 1951
Box 6
The Consolations of God, Duke University Church, March 15, 1953
Box 6
Easter Message, Duke University Chapel, undated
Box 6
Jesus Christ: Who He Was; What He Did, York Chapel Talk, undated
Box 6
Men of Conviction, Duke University Church, January 13, 1952
Box 6
The Opportunity of a Chain, undated
Box 6
The Pilgrims, Duke University Chapel, July 13, 1952
Box 6
The Pure Flame of Truth, Phi Beta Kappa address, undated
Box 6
Three Ways of Life: the Communist Way, the American (Democratic) Way, the Christian Way, Duke University Church, July 15, 1951
Box 6
When Our Ideals Betray Us, undated
Box 6
Women in Today's World, Columbia College Commencement, 1941
Box 6
An Appreciation of the Duke Endowment, North Carolina Christian Advocate, May 31, 1956
Box 6
Can the Hebrew Old Testament be Relied Upon? undated
Box 6
David Livingstone, undated
Box 6
A Day's Work for a Day's Pay, Christian Advocate, September 4, 1925
Box 6
The Department of Religious Training, Trinity Alumni Register, undated
Box 6
The Doctrine of the Future Life in India, The Union Seminary Quarterly, January 1926
Box 6
Every Christian a Missionary, Christian Advocate, June 5, 1925
Box 6
Figures by Which the Church is Represented in the New Testament, undated
Box 6
The Functions of a College Department of Missions, North Carolina Christian Advocate, May 14, 1925
Box 6
Future Life among Animistic Peoples, Methodist Quarterly Review, October 1925
Box 6
The Gospel of Barnabus, The Moslem World, April 1942
Box 6
Habakkuk, a Monograph on Faith, Nashville Christian Advocate, February 19, 1926
Box 6
Investment Opportunity, North Carolina Christian Advocate, August 16, 1951
Box 6
Japanese Indigenous Christianity, South Atlantic Quarterly, July 1925
Box 6
The Linguistic Argument for the Late Date of Canticles, Methodist Quarterly Review, April 1925
Box 6
Methodist Theological Schools Are Growing, North Carolina Christian Advocate, July 31, 1952
Box 6
Missionary Education at the Home Base, The Missionary Review of the World, April 1926
Box 6
Missionary Families, undated
Box 6
The Order of the Green Mustaches, [Poem], undated
Box 6
Our Missionary Literature, Christian Advocate, March 13, 1925
Box 6
The Philosophy of Missions, World Outlook, April 1952
Box 7
Proofs of the Christian Life, Christian Advocate, July 9, 1926
Box 7
The Search for Saviors, undated
Box 7
Shinto: Literary Sources and Popular Cultus, The Review and Expositor, July 1925
Box 7
The Teaching of Missions in Colleges, Christian Advocate, March 27, 1925
Box 7
Transmigration and Karma in Hinduism, undated
Box 7
The Vital Breath of Missions, North Carolina Christian Advocate, August 16, 1928
Box 7
Who Should Pay for Educating Methodist Ministers? Virginia Methodist Advocate, Nov. 23, 1950
Box 7
Will We Run Out of Preachers? Shepherds, April 1952
Box 7
The Witness of the Roman Catacombs to Early Christianity, New York Christian Advocate, undated
Box 7
The World Outlook of Duke University, World Outlook, July 1941
Box 7
The Bible as literature, Summer school, undated
Box 7
The Bible, The use of in public schools, Summer school, ca. 1920
Box 7
Buddhism, Miscellaneous, 1929-1933
Box 7
Buddhism in Ceylon, Burma, Cambodia, Siam, undated
Box 7
Buddhism in China, ca. 1929
Box 7
Buddhism in India, undated
Box 7
Buddhism in Japan, undated
Box 7
Christianity and world movements, undated
Box 7
The Church on the mission field, ca. 1947
Box 7
College courses in missions, 1929, 1949
Box 7
Divinity School, early days, 1926
Box 7
Divinity School faculty, 1926-1958
Box 7
Ethical ideals and social practice in the religions of the world (Comparative Religion), undated
Box 8
Expansion of Christianity to the Reformation, Summer school, ca. 1920
Box 8
Great preachers and missionaries, undated
Box 8
Ideas of future life [Religion 284: Comparative Religion], ca. 1941
Box 8
The idea of God, Comparative Religion, ca. 1945
Box 8
The idea of salvation, Comparative Religion, undated
Box 8
The idea of sin (Comparative Religion), ca. 1942
Box 8
How religions have spread, undated
Box 8
Latin America, Christian work in, ca. 1936
Box 8
Missionary education, suggested program for a local church, ca. 1944
Box 8
Missions in the modern world, 1935-1960
Box 8
The nature and early development of religion [Religion 181], undated
Box 8
Preaching, Expository, undated
Box 8
Religions of Eastern Asia, China, Korea, Japan, ca. 1943
Box 8
Religions of India, Religion S285, 1939-1947
Box 8
Rise and expansion of Islam, undated
Box 8
Theological scholarships, ca. 1950
Box 8
Research notes, correspondence, clippings, and
other materials related to Dr. Cannon's teaching and
writing. Some files contain outlines for courses included
in the Course materials subseries above.
Program of Advance in Foreign Ministries, October 1948
Box 9
Chronology of China, undated
Box 9
Cleland, James T., 1955-1965
Box 9
Comparative religion, Outlines, undated
Box 9
Garber, Bishop and Mrs. Paul N., 1947-1963
Box 9
February 10, 1945 - October 5, 1945
Box 9
October 11, 1945 - March 12, 1946
Box 9
March 13, 1946 - December 15, 1946
Box 9
March 22, 1947 - September 4, 1947
Box 9
Hindu sacred literature, course notes, undated
Box 9
History of Religion 15, Examination, 1951
Box 9
Islam, lecture notes, ca. 1939
Box 9
Living religions, course outline, undated
Box 9
The philosophy of the Christian world mission, lecture notes, 1946-1951
Box 9
Nature and Development of Religion [Religion 181], undated
Box 9
Schweitzer, Albert [Clippings], 1947
Box 9
World mission of the Christian religion, course, ca. 1930
Box 9
The Book of Jimmy Cannon
This scrapbook details the life of James
Cannon IV, son of James Cannon III. The book contains
photographs, ephemera, correspondence and other
materials.
Box 10
From 1919 to 1960, Reverend Dr. James Cannon III
worked as an educator and administrator at Trinity College
and Duke University, serving as Dean of the Divinity School
from 1951 to 1958. He was born on November 30, 1892 in
Farmville, Virginia to Bishop James Cannon, Jr., and Lura
Bennett Cannon. He earned a bachelor's degree from Trinity
College in 1914 and a master's degree at Princeton
University in 1917. Cannon served in the military as a
chaplain during World War I, for which he merited the
French Croix de Guerre in
1919. Later that year, he returned to Trinity College to
teach Biblical Literature and Missions. While he taught at
Trinity, he continued his graduate studies at the Princeton
Theological Seminary, earning his bachelor's and master's
degrees in theology in 1925. When the Duke University
Divinity School opened in 1926, Cannon became the Ivey
Professor of the History of Religion and Missions, a
position he held until his death on March 9, 1960.
In addition to his work at Duke University,
Cannon actively participated in several religious and
educational organizations and authored and edited a number
of scholarly publications. In 1958, he was elected
president of the Association of Methodist Theological
Schools. Cannon also served as president of the Professors
of Missions in Eastern Universities in 1941. He was
secretary of the Duke chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and served
on the Phi Beta Kappa National Senate in 1953. He wrote the
History of Southern Methodist Missions (Cokesbury Press, 1926) and co-authored
A Guide to the Study of the English Bible (Duke University Press, 1926). Cannon
also edited periodicals such as
Christian Advocate and
The Muslim World.
- Chapel Sermons [sound
recordings]. (University Archives, Duke
University.)
- James Cannon, Jr. papers. (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke
University.)
[Identification of item], James Cannon III
Papers, University Archives, Duke University.
The James Cannon III Papers was received by the
University Archives as a gift in 1974.
Processed by Jill Katte
Completed July 2002
Encoded by Jill Katte, September 2003
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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