TY  - GEN
AU  - Dike,Samuel W.
ED  - United States.
TI  - Samuel W. Dike papers,
KW  - Adams, Herbert Baxter,
KW  - Baker, Newton Diehl,
KW  - Peabody, Francis Greenwood,
KW  - Wright, Carroll Davidson,
KW  - Dike family.
KW  - Committee of Fifty for the Investigation of the Liquor Problem
KW  - National Divorce Reform League (U.S.)
KW  - National League for the Protection of the Family (U.S.)
KW  - Woman's Christian Temperance Union
KW  - Alcoholism
KW  - United States
KW  - Congregational churches
KW  - Education
KW  - Divorce
KW  - Domestic relations
KW  - Families
KW  - Elections
KW  - 1884
KW  - 1888
KW  - 1892
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Mormon Church
KW  - Mormons
KW  - Polygamy
KW  - Social problems
KW  - Temperance
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1865-1918
KW  - Clergy
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Reformers
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, speeches, writings, annual reports, articles, lecture notes, family papers, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Dike's activities as a Congregational minister and social reformer.  Chiefly correspondence with members of the National Divorce Reform League (after 1897 the National League for the Protection of the Family) and other social reformers pertaining to Dike's responsibilities as corresponding secretary for both leagues.  Subjects include attitudes toward society and societal problems, especially attitudes toward the family in society.  Topics include divorce, marriage, Mormons and polygamy, temperance, the home study movement in the Congregational Church, and the elections of 1884, 1888, and 1892.  Includes articles written by and about Dike; his unpublished autobiography; A Report on Marriage and Divorce in the United States, 1867-1886, published in 1889 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor; and material on temperance published by the Committee of Fifty for the Investigation of the Liquor Problem and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.  Correspondents include Herbert Baxter Adams, Newton Diehl Baker, Francis Greenwood Peabody, and Carroll Davidson Wright
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011207
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011207.3
ER  -