06827cpcaa2201021 4500 mm 77035097 DLC 20260227111618.0 cr ||||||||||| 850730|||||||||||| eng mm 77035097 DLC dacs DLC DLC R lcmd Ogden, Robert C. (Robert Curtis), 1836-1913. Robert C. Ogden papers, 1843-1913 (bulk 1890-1913). 10,000 items. 30 containers. 12 linear feet. Arranged in 6 series. Series 1: Family Papers, 1843-1921; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1855-1913; Series 3: Special Correspondence, 1862-1913; Series 4: Subject File; Series 5: Speeches, Writings, and Related Materials, 1888-1912; and Series 6: Miscellany. Open to research. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, reports, family papers, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Ogden's business career, interests in philanthropy and religion, and activities on behalf of education of African Americans in the South. Documents his involvement with the Conference on Education in the South; General Education Board (New York, N.Y.); Hampton Institute; Presbyterian church in Philadelphia, Pa., and New York, N.Y.; Southern Education Board; Southern Improvement Company (1900-1918), an effort to facilitate African-American land ownership in the South; Tuskegee Institute; Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.); and various philanthropies and disaster relief efforts. Includes an unpublished biography of Ogden by Samuel Chiles Mitchell, along with notes and copies of letters collected by Mitchell. Family papers include correspondence of Ogden's daughter, Helen Ogden Purves, and her husband, Alexander Purves. Other correspondents include Lyman Abbott, Edwin Anderson Alderman, S.C. Armstrong, Charles B. Aycock, Ray Stannard Baker, William Henry Baldwin, Edward William Bok, Nicholas Murray Butler, Wallace Buttrick, Andrew Carnegie, Frank R. Chambers, P.P. Claxton, Schuyler Colfax, J.L.M. Curry, Charles William Dabney, W.E.B. Du Bois, Hollis Burke Frissell, Frederick Taylor Gates, Job E. Hedges, David Franklin Houston, Seaman Ashahel Knapp, Seth Low, Charles Duncan McIver, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Walter Hines Page, George Foster Peabody, John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jay Schieffelin, Albert Shaw, William H. Taft, Oswald Garrison Villard, John Wanamaker, Booker T. Washington, and Woodrow Wilson. Businessman and philanthropist. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012139 Index to selected correspondents in the Special Correspondence series available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/ms012139.appx.pdf Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Correspondence. Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931 Correspondence. Armstrong, S. C. (Samuel Chapman), 1839-1893 Correspondence. Aycock, Charles B. (Charles Brantley), 1859-1912 Correspondence. Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946 Correspondence. Baldwin, William Henry, 1863-1905 Correspondence. Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 Correspondence. Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947 Correspondence. Buttrick, Wallace, 1853-1926 Correspondence. Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 Correspondence. Chambers, Frank R. Correspondence. Claxton, P. P. (Philander Priestley), 1862-1957 Correspondence. Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 Correspondence. Curry, J. L. M. (Jabez Lamar Monroe), 1825-1903 Correspondence. Dabney, Charles William, 1855-1945 Correspondence. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 Correspondence. Frissell, Hollis Burke, 1851-1917 Correspondence. Gates, Frederick Taylor, 1853-1929 Correspondence. Hedges, Job E. (Job Elmer), 1862-1925 Correspondence. Houston, David Franklin, 1866-1940 Correspondence. Knapp, Seaman Ashahel, 1833-1911 Correspondence. Low, Seth, 1850-1916 Correspondence. McIver, Charles Duncan, 1860-1906Seaman Ashahel Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948 Correspondence. Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918 Correspondence. Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938 Correspondence. Purves, Alexander, -1905 Correspondence. Purves, Helen Ogden Correspondence. Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937 Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Correspondence. Schieffelin, William Jay, 1866- Correspondence. Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947 Correspondence. Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 Correspondence. Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 Correspondence. Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922 Correspondence. Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 Correspondence. Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 Correspondence. Ogden family. Conference on Education in the South. General Education Board (New York, N.Y.) Hampton Institute. Tuskegee Institute. Southern Improvement Company (1900-1918) Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.) African Americans Education. African Americans Southern States. Disaster relief. Education Southern States. Land tenure Southern States. Humanitarianism. Presbyterian Church Pennsylvania Philadelphia. Presbyterian Church New York (State) New York. Religion. Businessmen. itoamc Philanthropists. itoamc Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948. Unpublished biography of Robert C. Ogden. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012139 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012139.3 39459 39459