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    <title>Samuel J. Baird papers, 1834-1892</title>
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    <namePart>Baird, Samuel J. (Samuel John)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1817-1893</namePart>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <abstract>Correspondence and miscellaneous material relating to Presbyterian Church affairs and doctrinal questions, the work of the American Bible Society in Virginia (1865-1875), and the Baird family.  Includes letters concerning Baird's efforts to minister to soldiers and to assist wounded soldiers and prisoners during the Civil War.  Correspondents include James W. Alexander, E. Thompson Baird, Thomas Dickson Baird, William Logan Baird, Henry A. Boardman, John Breckinridge,  Robert J. Breckinridge, William C. Cattell, Jeremiah Chamberlain, John T. Duffield, Robert Smith Finley, P. D. Gurley, Mark Hopkins, George Howe, Edward P. Humphrey, Richard McIlwaine, John Miller, John W. Nevins, Theodore Sutton Parvin, William S. Plummer, Stacy G. Potts, Hugh Reid, Stuart Robinson, William Greenough Thayer Shedd, Henry B. Smith, William B. Sprague, William J. R. Taylor, T. D. Witherspoon, and James Wood.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Presbyterian clergyman and author of Newark, Ohio.</note>
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  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Alexander, James W. (James Waddel)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1804-1859</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baird, E. Thompson (Ebenezer Thompson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1821-1887</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baird, Thomas Dickson</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baird, William Logan</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Boardman, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1880</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Breckinridge, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1841</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Breckinridge, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1871</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cattell, William C. (William Cassiday)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1827-1898</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chamberlain, Jeremiah</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1794-1851</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Duffield, John T. (John Thomas)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1901</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Finley, Robert Smith</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1804-1860</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gurley, P. D. (Phineas Densmore)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1816-1868</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Hopkins, Mark</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1802-1887</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Howe, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1802-1883</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Humphrey, Edward P. (Edward Porter)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1809-1887</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McIlwaine, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1834-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Miller, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1895</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nevins, John W</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Parvin, Theodore Sutton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1817-1901</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Plummer, William S</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Potts, Stacy G. (Stacy Gardner)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1799-1865</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Reid, Hugh</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Robinson, Stuart</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1814-1881</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1894</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Smith, Henry Boynton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1877</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sprague, William B. (William Buell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1876</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Taylor, William J. R. (William James Romeyn)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1823-1891</namePart>
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      <namePart>Witherspoon, T. D. (Thomas Dwight)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1836-1898</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Wood, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1799-1867</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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      <namePart>Confederate States of America.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
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    <topic>Religious life</topic>
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    <topic>Doctrines</topic>
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    <topic>Medical care</topic>
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