Ogden, Robert C. (Robert Curtis) 1836-1913 creator mixed material monographic eng 10,000 30 12 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 Includes an unpublished biography of Ogden by Samuel Chiles Mitchell, along with notes and copies of letters collected by Mitchell.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. Open to research. 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 Philanthropists Mitchell, Samuel Chiles, 1864-1948 mm 77035097 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012139 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012139.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012139 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012139.3 Open to research. DLC 850730 20260227111618.0 mm 77035097