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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