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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Benjamin Titus Roberts family papers, 1832-1954 (bulk 1870-1900)</title>
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    <namePart>Roberts, Benjamin Titus</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1823-1893</namePart>
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    <extent>38</extent>
    <extent>34</extent>
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  <abstract>Family and general correspondence, diaries, notebooks, speeches and writings, and other papers of Benjamin Titus Roberts and members of his family: his wife, Ellen Lois Stowe Roberts, his sons, lawyer George Lane Roberts and clergyman Benson Howard Roberts, and their wives, Anna A. Rice Roberts and Emma Sellew Roberts, respectively.   Topics include family and domestic matters; Benjamin Titus Roberts's work and association with the Free Methodist Church of North America, especially in upstate New York; Benson Howard Roberts's duties as principal of the Chili Seminary, later A. M. Chesbrough Seminary, North Chili, N.Y.; George Lane Roberts's law practice and business ventures in Bradford, Pa., and Rochester, N.Y., and brief residency in South America; and matters relating to the allied Rice, Sellew, and Stowe families.  Includes material on the dissension and division within the Genesee Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1850s and the overseas missionary work of the Free Methodist Church in the 1880s and 1890s.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of the portion of the collection processed before 1990 available, no. 20,293.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1990.</note>
  <note>Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Clergyman and founder of the Free Methodist Church of North America.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009135">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009135</note>
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      <namePart>Rice family</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
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    <name type="personal">
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stowe family</namePart>
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      <namePart>A.M. Chesbrough Seminary (North Chili, N.Y.)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Chili Seminary (North Chili, N.Y.)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Free Methodist Church of North America.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Methodist Episcopal Church.</namePart>
      <namePart>Genesee Annual Conference.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Methodist Church</topic>
    <topic>Clergy</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Methodist Church</topic>
    <topic>Missions</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Methodist Church</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Methodist theological seminaries</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>North Chili</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Practice of law</topic>
    <geographic>New York (State)</geographic>
    <geographic>Rochester</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Practice of law</topic>
    <geographic>Pennsylvania</geographic>
    <geographic>Bradford</geographic>
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    <geographic>Bradford (Pa.)</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
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    <geographic>Rochester (N.Y.)</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>South America</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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    <occupation>Clergy</occupation>
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      <title>Anna A. Rice Roberts papers</title>
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      <namePart>Roberts, Anna A. Rice,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1881</namePart>
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      <title>Benson Howard Roberts papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roberts, Benson Howard.</namePart>
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      <title>Ellen Lois Stowe Roberts papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roberts, Ellen Lois Stowe.</namePart>
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      <title>Emma Sellew Roberts papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roberts, Emma Sellew.</namePart>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>George Lane Roberts papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roberts, George Lane.</namePart>
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