STORER COLLEGE. Manuscript ledger for the Curtis Free Will Baptist Church. Typical tall ledger from Stationer, with 69 pages of entries Tall 4to, 1/4 calf and cloth-covered boards; edges rubbed, joints started but firm. Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, 1896-1902
A church ledger with a direct association to Storer College. Several members of the Curtis Free Will Baptist Church went on to co-found, and become faculty members of Storer College. The church continued to be a social focal point and chapel for the school. One of the founders and prominent church members, Richard I. McKinney, has made several entries in this ledger as has ex-slave Jared M. Arter (see lot 148), who attended both church and college at Storer and is cited many times as a minister in the ledger as late as 1917. These pages also tell personal stories of back-biting and some rather antiquated church thinking. The story, for example of three members excommunicated for 'drunkenness and unchristian behavior, and nonattendance' in 1897.
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