Spencer Bidwell King, Jr. 1904-1977 Professor of History, Mercer University (1946 – 1970)

Contact Information Mercer University Library Archives and Digital Initiatives 1501 Mercer University Dr. Macon, Georgia 31207 478-301-2968 [email protected]

Table of Contents Biographical Note Scope and Content Note Subjects Restrictions Separated Material Administrative Information Finding Aid Note Container List

Biographical Note

Dr. Spencer Bidwell King Jr. was born December 14th, 1904 in Omega, Alabama and died December 14th, 1977. He was married to Caroline Paul King and had one son, Spencer B. King III, and two daughters. He earned his A.B. from Mercer University in 1929, his M.A. from Peabody College in 1936, and his PhD from North Carolina in 1950.

King was a Baptist minister at Blakely Baptist Church in the years of 1921-1925 and 1931-1945 and served on the Home Mission Board and as State Superintendent of Missions with the Georgia Baptist Convention. He later became Chairman of the Dept. of History at Mercer University (1946-1970), and retired in 1973.

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of papers of Spencer Bidwell King from ca. 1917-1973. The papers include a scrapbook of newspaper clippings of sermons Billy Sunday preached in Atlanta in 1917; a scrapbook of clippings, programs, and memorabilia relating to his father's, Spencer B. King, Sr., ministry at the Blakely Baptist Church (Early County, Ga.) from the 1920's-1940's; articles, addresses, and writings by King relating to Georgia history, including extensive information regarding the Civil War and Darien (Ga.); and correspondence pertaining to his involvement with the Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, the Southern Baptist Historical Commission, and the Civil War Centennial Commission.

Subjects

Baptists – Southern States Baptists – Georgia – Clergy Historians – Georgia Preaching – Georgia Sermons

Blakely (Ga.) Early County (Ga.) Darien (Ga.) – History Georgia – History – Civil War, 1861 – 1865 – Centennial celebrations, etc.

Blakely Baptist Church (Blakely, Ga.) Southern Baptist Convention. Historical Commission United States. Civil War Centennial Commission

Sunday, Billy, 1862 – 1935

Restrictions

Restrictions on access Unrestricted access. All requests subject to limitations noted in departmental policies on reproduction.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction To quote in print, or otherwise reproduce in whole or in part in any publication, including on the World Wide Web, any material from this collection, the researcher must obtain permission from (1) the owner of the physical property and (2) the holder of the copyright. Persons wishing to quote from this collection should consult the reference archivist to determine copyright holders for information in this collection. Reproduction of any item must contain the complete citation to the original.

Separated Material

None

Administrative Information

Citation [after identification of item(s)], Spencer Bidwell King Papers. Archives and Digital Initiatives, Mercer University Library, Macon, GA.

Source Gift of Spencer B. King III and Mrs. Caroline King

Additional papers donated by Dr. John Thomas Scott from Mercer University History Department (July 24, 1996)

Processing Cataloged as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts Automated Access project: A Special Collections Gateway Program of the University Center in Georgia (1993, 1996).

Finding Aid Note

Finding aid available in repository.

BOX 1

1/1 German, French and English Publications; University of Michigan literary magazine, Perspectives, August 1941 1/2 Therefore, Be It Resolved (c. 1960) 1/3 Savannah’s Rebels; Civitan Club, Savannah, Georgia, April 25, 1961 1/4 Sesquicentennial of Richland Baptist Church; October 8, 1961 1/5 Twenty Years of Europe in Twenty Minutes; Women’s Club, March 17, 1939 1/6 Some Early Georgia Muckrakers; Sent to The Georgia Review, October 16, 1968 1/7 Searching for sources of Georgia history; For National Archives Guide, 1948, Supplement 1 1/8 Atlanta’s Early Builders 1/9 Atlanta’s Urban Renewal Project of 1864-1966; Atlanta Civil War Roundtable, November 15, 1966 1/10 Lincoln and the Rebels; Fort Valley Kiwanis Club, June 16, 1961 1/11 Georgia’s Rebels Yesterday and Today; Beta Club, Davis House, Macon, Georgia, May 17, 1961 1/12 The Sword of Lee; Paper read to Kappa Chapter, Kappa Alpha Order, Mercer University, January 18, 1964 1/13 American Grows; America Is...; American Heritage Lectures, February 13, 1963 1/14 Jesse Mercer, Founding Father; Bicentennial Essay for Mercerian 1/15 Baptist Leaders in Early Georgia Politics; Georgia Baptist Historical Society, March 20-21, 1975 1/16 New Intellectual Highways; Paper read to Georgia Library Association, November 4, 1965; [Additional 3 page paper on Georgia Baptist History Depository] 1/17 History of Technology and Some Thoughts on its Implications; Georgia Industrial Arts Association, August 20, 1966 1/18 Fanny Cohen’s journal of Sherman’s occupation of Savannah; Ed. Spencer B. King, Jr. (No Date) 1/19 Customs and Inconsistencies of Ante-bellum Southerners as Observed by Foreign Travelers in Georgia; Presented P. E. O., December 6, 1966 1/20 Impressment, 1863: Its Impact on Northwest Georgia as seen in a Petition of Floyd County Citizens 1/21 April in Macon: 1965 1/22 Britain’s Reluctant Rebel 1/23 Controversies between Governor Burrington and the North Carolina Assembly (No Date) 1/24 The Belligerent Sex; Paper presented to Thomas Hardman, Jr. Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Macon, Georgia, April 26, 1974 and the Civil War Centennial Commission, June 10-12, 1964 1/25 The Poet and the Rustic: Georgia Crackers in Sidney Lanier’s Time 1/26 I Saw Atlanta Burning (No Date) 1/27 A Baptist Looks at Government; Ministers Conference, North Carolina, 1938-39 1/28 Pros and Cons of American Independence; Presented at DAR, February 11, 1976 1/29 Pamphlets and Poems as Strategy in the American Revolution; Presented to Palaver Club, December 5, 1974, also Macon Women’s Club, 1975 1/30 Atlanta’s Urban Renewal Project of 1864; Presented to Mercer Alumni College, Atlanta, Georgia, October 25, 1966 1/31 The Georgia Story - A Child’s History (c. 1954) 1/32 The Georgia Story - Unit One; (Chapters sent to various publishers to consider publication) 1/33 Ten-to-One Odds in >Sixty Five; Paper presented Memorial Day, West Point, Georgia, April 26, 1961 1/34 Will Parkins, A Yankee who Served the South; Draft copy 1/35 Atlanta’s Urban Renewal Project of 1864; Mercer University Alumni College (for slide project, October 25, 1966) 1/36 Manigault Letter on Andersonville Prison 1/37 Yankee Letters from Andersonville Prison; (For Georgia Historical Quarterly) 1/38 Georgia: Britain’s Reluctant Rebel; Presented to Colonial Dames, copies of pages from Songs and Ballads of the Revolution by Frank Moore 1/39 “Lee, the American” 1/40 The Sword of Lee; Paper read to Kappa Chapter, Kappa Alpha Order, Mercer University, January 18, 1964 1/41 Pragmatism is not Enough (Information on Georgia Association of Junior Colleges) 1/42 How to Save a City in War (No Date) 1/43 The Maturing of the American Mind; (Information on American Heritage Lecture Series) 1/44 The Discipline of Defeat; Memorial Luncheon, Combined Chapters of United Daughters of the Confederacy, April 26, 1955 1/45 Defeat Disciplined Us; Memorial Day Address, Robert E. Lee Institute, April 25, 1958 1/46 Visitors to Old Macon; Presented to Palaver Club, Colonial Dames, 1959 1/47 I Remember Matt 1/48 Society at the Turn of the Century (Chapter 15) 1/49 Patrick Hues Mell: Preacher, Pedagogue, and Parliamentarian 1/50 Remember Pearl Harbor 1/51 MISSING 1/52 Society and Thought - Race Relations 1/53 Common Schools in the South 1879 1/54 Atlanta Civil War Roundtable correspondence, 1966 1/55 King, Spencer, Bibliography 1956-68 1/56 Correspondence concerning Ebb Tide, 1957-60 1/57 King-Parkin, Frank A.; Correspondence, building architects, October 30, 1968 1/58 King-Garrett, Atlanta Historical Society 1/59 Dr. King’s books (miscellaneous) 1/60 The Legacy of Enduring Glory; Paper presented Memorial Day, Reynolds, Georgia, May 26, 1962 1/61 The Lesson of the Civil War for the South 1/62 From Churchill’s History of the English Speaking Peoples 1/63 This Is Your Life, Alma Mater; June 1958, Mercerian 1/64 That Critical Year...1873; Mercer student writes of his interests, problems, sorrows in 1873, Mercerian, March 1964 1/65 Mercer University-Connell, Harris Administrations 1/66 Mid-South Independent School Association; History in the Curriculum of the Independent Schools, March 1968 1/67 New Intellectual Highways; Georgia Library Association, November 4, 1965 1/68 Old Wesleyan; Made at City Council meeting, January 8, 1963 1/69 Economic and Social Conditions in Atlanta in the 1870s 1/70 Transportation in 1870 1/71 Georgia Weeps for Hill 1/72 A History of Tattnall Square Baptist Church 1891-1966; Manuscript copy by Spencer B. King 1/73 Georgia Refugees during the War Between the States 1/74 Juggernaut 1/75 The Confederate Arsenal 1/76 The Dove-Story of Will Parkins, Atlanta’s First Architect 1/77 A Permanent Philosophy in a Changing World 1/78 James Jackson: Democratic Aristocrat; DAR, Macon, Georgia, April 8, 1964 1/79 Impressions of Georgia as Recorded by Foreign Travelers in the Early 19th Century 1/80 Customs and Inconsistencies of Ante-bellum Southerners as Observed by Foreign Travelers in Georgia 1/81 History and the Technological Revolution; Parnassus Club, Dublin, Georgia, 1968 1/82 Speech before the Georgia Historical Society-124th Anniversary 1/83 Georgia’s Early Settlers; DAR, February 10, 18, 1971 1/84 The American Revolution in Georgia: Three Shades of Opinion 1/85 The South has Changed: Georgia in 1950 1/86 Georgia and the American Revolution: Three Shades of Opinion 1/87 There’ll Always Be An England 1/88 Professors Study War 1/89 The Legacy of Enduring Glory 1/90 Atlanta’s Early Builders 1/91 Conflict of National Cultures (German, French, English) 1/92 The Junior College in Defense of Liberal Education; Article in School and Society, July 6, 1944 1/93 The Rejuced Major 1/94 This Was Georgia-A History told by Contemporaries 1/95 The Birth of Georgia 1/96 Conflict between State and Nation 1/97 Industrial Revival and Agrarian Unrest (Chapter 14) 1/98 Society and Thought in the Gilded Age (Chapter 15) 1/99 History of Technology and Some Thoughts on its Implications; Georgia Industrial Arts Association, August 20, 1966 1/100 The Prodigal South; Address before Pi Gamma Mu, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1968 1/101 Lee and the Common Soldier; Eastman Study Club, January 28, 1959 1/102 Fanny Cohen’s Journal of Sherman’s Occupation of Savannah 1/103 Journal of what occurred during my stay in Savannah while the Yankees had possession of it 1/104 Baptist Leaders in Early Georgia Politics; Georgia Baptist Historical Society, March 20-21, 1975 1/105 The Poet and the Rustic: Georgia Crackers in Sidney Lanier’s Time 1/106 Pamphlets and Poems as Strategy in the American Revolution; Palaver Club, December 5, 1974 1/107 I Saw Atlanta Burning in 1917 1/108 Will Parkins: A Yankee Who Served the South 1/109 A Victorian’s Lament; Paper to the Palaver Club, May 16, 1966 1/110 Notes to Changing Times

BOX 2

2/1 Pictures (Buildings in Georgia) 2/2 Personal Letters (1967-74) 2/3 Correspondence regarding Andrews Wartime Journal 2/4 Andrews, Eliza Frances 2/5 Miscellaneous Clippings-Wartime journals 2/6 Where Jesse Mercer died-correspondence 2/7 Correspondence-Miscellaneous, 1959 (1959-1963) 2/8 Ku Klux Klan items 2/9 Miscellaneous politics 2/10 Georgia: This Was Georgia 2/11 Who’s Who, etc. 2/12 Atlanta fire, 1917 2/13 Pryor, Mrs. Roger A. 2/14 Source material not in Georgia Voices 2/15 Coulter, Saye, King-A History of Georgia (American Book Company, 1954) 2/16 King, S. B., Jr. Letters, 1948 2/17 King correspondence - H 2/18 Miscellaneous Writings/Clippings 2/19 Retirement 2/20 Nash, Miles H. (Mostly concerning Civil War material) 2/21 Mountain Boy, a short story 2/22 Archives Institute, 1970 2/23 Dagg, John L.-Dedication of Marker 2/24 W. W. Davidson-Georgia Review (All concerning A History of Georgia - Coulter, Saye, King) 2/25 Dowling, Walter-Correspondence 2/26 Enclyclopaedia Britannica (Macon, Valdosta, Warner Robins) 2/27 Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists 2/28 Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Part 1 2/29 Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Part 2 2/30 Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Part 3 2/31 E-General correspondence (All Otto Eisenschiml) 2/32 King correspondence-E 2/33 F-General Correspondence 2/34 Georgia Historical Commission 2/35 Georgia Historical Society 2/36 Gambrell, E. Smythe-Georgia Historical Pageant 2/37 Harris, Rufus/King Correspondence 2/38 King, Spencer/Dr. Harris-History Department move 2/39 Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1971 2/40 Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1972 2/41 Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1973 2/42 Hurt, John-Christian Index (and others) 2/43 Waverly Conference 2/44 Contract-University of Georgia Press-Ebb Tide 2/45 Pamphlets (most relating to Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists)

BOX 3

3/1 Newspaper Columns 3/2 Newspaper Columns, Civil War Centennial 3/3 Scrap Album-Clippings from 1880s-1890s 3/4 Manuscript Copy-Darien, The Death and Rebirth of a Southern Town; Contains contract with Mercer University Press 3/5 Final Proof-Darien, The Death and Rebirth of a Southern Town 3/6 Manuscript Copy-Flame of Hate, The Destruction on Darien, Georgia (Part One) 3/7 Manuscript Copy-Flame of Hate, The Destruction on Darien, Georgia (Part Two) 3/8 Georgia Voices Vol. I (Part One) 3/9 Georgia Voices Vol. I (Part Two) 3/10 Georgia Voices Vol. II 3/11 Manuscript Copy-Ebb Tide (Part One) 3/12 Manuscript Copy-Ebb Tide (Part Two) 3/13 War 1861-1865 (Diaries, Journals, Memoirs) 3/14 Booklets-Civil War History 3/15 Historic Homes

BOX 4

4/1 Macon Telegraph (Civil War Centennial Column) 4/2 Civil War Clippings 4/3 Civil War: “Father Sherman’s March to the Sea” -Coulter 4/4 Civil War: Gettysburg 4/5 Civil War: “My Old Confederate” John E. White 4/6 Civil War: “Sherman at Milledgeville, 1864" James C. Bonner 4/7 Civil War: Treatment of Prisoners, Andersonville, Elmira, etc. 4/8 Civil War: Macon – “The Last Campaign” George Mercer Diary 4/9 Darien 4/10 Darien MS 4/11 Darien Notes 4/12 Darien-Search File 4/13 Darien Connections 4/14 Darien: The Death and Rebirth of a Southern Town 4/15 University of Georgia 4/16 University of Georgia Press 4/17 Letter from Bill Haynes 4/18 Jones, Mrs. Frank F. 4/19 K Correspondence 4/20 Kennesaw Mountain, Battle of 4/21 Spencer B. King, Jr.-S. P. G. Letters: Georgia 4/22 Lewis Historical Publishing Company 4/23 Theodore Montfort Letters 4/24 Montfort Letters: Rebel Lawyer 4/25 Montfort-25th Georgia (Wilson) 4/26 Montfort- “Wise Guards” -Captain Mark McMullin, Co. K, 25th Georgia 4/27 Montfort Letters (VA)-Duplicate 4/28 Newton, Dr. Louie D. 4/29 New York Tribune July 25, 1864 4/30 University of North Carolina Press 4/31 Oglethorpe, etc. 4/32 Parkins, Frank A. 4/33 Parkins, Will H. 4/34 Will Parkins 4/35 Will Parkins, etc. 4/36 Reconstruction (Fletcher Green=s Lectures) 4/37 Rose: Anne Rose Diary 4/38 S Correspondence 4/39 Saye, Dr. Albert B.-University of Georgia 4/40 Shaw Letters 4/41 Civil War: Robert A. Smith, Captain “Macon Volunteers” 4/42 Snowden, Etsel 4/43 Southern Baptist Historical Commission, April 20-22 4/44 Stephens, Ralph H. - University of Georgia Press 4/45 Symmachus Trading Company

BOX 5

5/1 Andersonville Prisoner’s Letters 5/2 Bacon, Augustus Octavius (b. Oct. 20, 1839; d. Feb. 14, 1914) 5/3 Bacon, A. O.-1868 (National Democratic Convention) 5/4 A. O. Bacon-Journal and War Letters, August 1861 5/5 Bacon, A. O. Letters 5/6 Civil War Centennial 5/7 Civil War History 5/8 Bacon, A. O. (Military Record) 5/9 Green, Dr. James Mercer 5/10 Reconstruction Letters 5/11 Savannah-Civil War 5/12 Stillwell Papers (Ann Henry) 5/13 Head, William W.-Letters 5/14 Hoge, E. F.-Letters 5/15 Bacon, A. O.-Bibliography (from Lala Carr’s thesis) 5/16 Civil War Causes-James Callaway 5/17 Civil War Oral History 5/18 Civil War Letters 5/19 Confederate Women at War’s End 5/20 The Diary of A. F. Cooledge 5/21 DeHaven, Wesley W., Co. K., 16th Wisconsin Infantry-A Yankee Soldier’s Diary 5/22 Hardeman, Thomas, Jr. 5/23 Lincoln 5/24 Mercer Men who died in the Civil War 5/25 Montfort (Rebel Lawyer-Notes) 5/26 Montfort-Letters unedited 5/27 Civil War Centennial-Macon Telegraph and News 5/28 Newton, James M., Co. D (Butts Co. Volunteers) 5/29 Civil War Items 5/30 Screwball Weapons in Civil War 5/31 T Correspondence 5/32 Taylor, Dean Garland F. 5/33 Tipton Correspondence 5/34 V Correspondence 5/35 Washington, Georgia 5/36 Captain Wirz-Diary 5/37 Manuscript Copy-Darien 5/38 Harris, Rufus C. 5/39 Committee of Faculty College Self-Study 5/40 History Class Notes 5/41 Letters of Recommendation-Spencer B. King, Jr. 5/42 Letters of Recommendation-Spencer B. King, Jr.

BOX 6

6/1 Misc. XVI, XVII, XVIII 20th Century 6/2 Speeches on the South 6/3 Penfield, Josiah 6/4 History of Georgia (459-659 University of Georgia) Summer 1963 (Part One) 6/5 History of Georgia (459-659 University of Georgia) Summer 1963 (Part Two) 6/6 Eastman Study Club 6/7 Communism 6/8 Civil War Impressments 6/9 Christian Index 6/10 The Democratic Tradition 6/11 Depression of 1930s 6/12 Georgia Communism and Fellow Travelers-Question of 6/13 GA II - Chapter I, 1872-1900, Constitutional Change and Politics 6/14 Georgia Constitutional Development 1877-1945 6/15 Atlanta’s Early Builders 6/16 America Is... 6/17 Atlanta’s Urban Renewal Project of 1864 6/18 Mercer History 6/19 Mercer, Jesse 6/20 History- Georgia: Organization of State Government 6/21 H245 Objective Tests on Georgia Voices 6/22 Huguenots 6/23 H145 History of Georgia Lecture Notes 6/24 Philosophy of History (Wilhoit) 6/25 Harding and Coolidge 6/26 Social and Industrial Development 1815-1860 6/27 US: “Middle Period” 1815-1860 6/28 Baptist History 6/29 Foreign Affairs 1900-20 6/30 Taft, T. R., Wilson-Progressive Era 6/31 GA II, Ch. II-Industrial Revival and Agrarian Unrest 6/32 Confederate Flags 6/33 Treason Act: Royal Assembly Rough Draft 6/34 H132 Reconstruction Outline 6/35 History (G) 148-Constitutional Development (Reading Lists, Tests, Exams) 6/36 “Pictures from the Past” Moore, Adrianne Harp 6/37 Additions to Georgia Biography 6/38 Miscellaneous Papers 6/39 H136 Civil War and Reconstruction 6/40 History 133-US 1890-1963 6/41 History 50-Mercer/King 6/42 U. S.-New South

BOX 7

7/1 Old South 7/2 History 146-U. S. Diplomatic 7/3 H132-Civil War and Reconstruction 7/4 Miscellaneous Items 7/5 Emory University 7/6 Correspondence

BOX 8

8/1 Westville 8/2 Robertson, James I., Jr.-Civil War Centennial Commission 8/3 Research in Progress 8/4 Westville/Cotter-Lumpkin, Georgia Project 8/5 Vandiver, S. Ernest 8/6 Tate, William (Oldest Methodist church in Georgia) 8/7 American Association for State and Local History 8/8 Confederate Record and Pension Department (Atlanta) 8/9 Adcock, Mrs. R. L. 8/10 John Henry Bittinger Letters 8/11 Letters of Daniel R. Methvin 8/12 Confederate Pension and Record Department 8/13 Baptist Men’s Journal April-June 1967 8/14 Tattnall Square Baptist Church 8/15 Raboniwitz Case 8/16 Macon-Bibb Bicentennial

BOX 9

9/1 Darien #1 (Part One) 9/2 Darien #1 (Part Two) 9/3 Darien (Part One) 9/4 Darien (Part Two) 9/5 Ebb Tide Notes (Part One) 9/6 Ebb Tide Notes (Part Two)

BOX 10 *Contains notecards pertaining to the Darien manuscript. Also contains notes for additional projects.