{"id":2128,"date":"2015-09-14T20:23:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2015-09-14T20:42:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:42:34","slug":"2128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2015\/09\/14\/2128\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-discovering the archives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Posted by Peter Rawson, Associate Curator of Archives &amp; Manuscript Collections]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_3248.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2129\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_3248-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3248\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_3248-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/09\/IMG_3248-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>While conducting a survey of the archives I came across two 19th-early 20th century collections.<\/p>\n<div>The first are the papers of the Reverend Frederick William Harriman, D.D, Class of 1872. Harriman served for over thirty years as the rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Windsor, CT, retiring in 1920.\u00a0 The collection contains several of his hand-written sermons, information pertaining to his father, the Reverend Frederick Durbin Harriman, Class of 1845, personal correspondence, and family genealogy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The second are the papers the Reverend Abner Jackson, Class of 1837, and eighth President of Trinity from 1867-1874. The papers contain three of his diaries from 1860-1864, personal correspondence, 1840-1874, certificate of ordination as a priest by Bishop Brownell (first President of Trinity), and a published volume of his discourses, 1875.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Both of these collections give us insight into Trinity&#8217;s early roots in the Episcopal Church, and the lives and perspectives of members of our community in the 19th and early 20th centuries.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Posted by Peter Rawson, Associate Curator of Archives &amp; Manuscript Collections] While conducting a survey of the archives I came across two 19th-early 20th century collections. The first are the papers of the Reverend Frederick William Harriman, D.D, Class of 1872. Harriman served for over thirty years as the rector of Grace Episcopal Church in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,5,37,39,29,32,47,31,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}