Finding Aid to the F. D. Leete Collection on Methodist Bishops Bridwell Library Perkins School of Theology Southern Methodist University

Overview Creator: Leete, Frederick DeLand Title: F. D. Leete collection on Methodist Bishops Inclusive Dates: 1830-1977 Bulk Dates: 1870-1956 Abstract: The F. D. Leete collection on Methodist Bishops comprises eight boxes of correspondence, historical data, and images of 254 Methodist bishops collected by Bishop Frederick DeLand Leete (1866-1958) and augmented by Bridwell Library staff until 1979. Accession Number: BridArch 301.09A Extent: 8 boxes; 7.5 linear ft. Language: Material is in English. Repository: Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University

Biographical Note Frederick DeLand Leete was born at Avon, New York on October 1, 1866. He studied at Syracuse University, earning A.B. (1889) and A.M. (1891) degrees. On July 28, 1891, Leete married Jeanette Fuller. They had three children.

Rev. Leete joined the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1888 and served congregations in New York state until 1906, when he was appointed Pastor of the Central Methodist Church in Detroit, Michigan. The General Conference of 1912 elected Leete bishop. Before retiring, Bishop Leete served two four-year terms in three different locations: the Atlanta area (1912-1920), the Indianapolis area (1920-1928), and the Omaha area (1928-1936). F. D. Leete Collection on Methodist Bishops Page 2

With insights gained from episcopacies in both northern and southern states, Bishop Frederick D. Leete advanced the cause of Methodist Church union. He also served as a member of the Ecumenical Methodist Conferences of 1911, 1921, and 1931 and as President of the Ecumenical Council of the Americas and Orient, 1931-1944.

Leete wrote the following books: Every-day Evangelism (1909); Christian Brotherhoods (1912); The Church in the City (1915); Palestine: Land of the Light (1917); Christianity in Science (1928); Palestine: its Scenery, Peoples and History (1933); Pictures of Jesus (1935); Skyward: A Book of Horizons (1936); New Testament Windows (1939); The Deland Family in America: a Biographical Genealogy (1943); and Methodist Bishops (1948). Twenty-one of his sermons, public addresses, essays and book reviews were also published between 1901 and 1947. In 1936 Southern Methodist University granted Bishop Leete an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.

Frederick D. Leete was a member of the American Historical Association. As a church historian, he gathered a significant quantity of manuscript and published materials by and about Methodist bishops and items concerning other topics in Methodist history. Leete donated his Methodist Historical Library to Bridwell Library in 1956. After the bishop’s death in 1958, Librarian Kate Warnick continued adding materials to the Leete collections in his honor until her retirement in 1979.

Sources: Earl, Jesse E. “Frederick D. Leete.” In Encyclopedia of World Methodism. Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 1974.

Warnick, Kate. “The Romance of Methodism: The Methodist Historical Library, Inc.” Perkins School of Theology Journal (Fall 1945): 17-21.

Scope and Contents of the Collection The F. D. Leete Bishops Collection consists of research materials on the lives of 254 Methodist bishops from the late eighteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century. The collection includes published and unpublished documents, personal and business correspondence, journals, biographical sketches, and images. These items range in date from 1830 to 1977. Materials collected before 1948 were used by Bishop Leete in writing Methodist Bishops: Personal Notes and Bibliographies.

Arrangement of the Collection The collection contains two series of materials: Series 1: Alphabetical File, 1830-1977 Series 2: Prints and Photographs, 1852-1964

Restrictions Access to Collection: The collection is open for research use.

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Access Terms This collection is indexed under the following terms in the Southern Methodist University Libraries’ online catalog. Researchers desiring related materials may search the catalog using these terms:

Methodist Church -- Bishops -- Biography. Methodist Church -- Clergy -- Biography. Methodist Church -- Bishops -- Portraits. Photographs. -- gmgpc

Administrative Information Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], F. D. Leete collection on Methodist Bishops, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.

Acquisition Information: Gift of Bishop Frederick DeLand Leete, 1956.

Processing Information This collection was arranged and described in 2010 by Timothy Binkley with assistance from Heather M. Oglevie.

Encoded by Lara Corazalla, 2010.

Related Collections F. D. Leete collection on Methodist history, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.

Derivative Collections: The following five collections were part of the original Leete gift of Methodist bishops’ papers. Due to the size and significance of these collections, they have been processed as separate but related sub- collections.

Earl Cranston papers, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. F. D. Leete Collection on Methodist Bishops Page 4

John Fletcher Hurst papers, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.

Thomas Nicholson papers, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.

William Xavier Ninde Family papers, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.

John Heyl Vincent papers, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series 1: Alphabetical File, 1830-1977 The first series includes 288 folders of information about, small images of, and correspondence with Methodist bishops and their families filed in alphabetical order by last name. Legal size and larger documents are housed in different boxes, as indicated in the inventory.

Box File Contents Dates

574 1 Abe, Yoshimune 1933-1954 2 Ainsworth, William N. 1923-1931 579A 1 Ainsworth, William N. (legal size) 1910-1940 574 3 Ainsworth, William N. 1916-1940 4 Akawaza, Motozo 1925-1935 5 Alejandro, Dionisio Deisto 1915-1948 6 Ames, Edward R. 1853-1878 7 Anderson, William Franklin 1896-1945 8 Andrew, James Osgood 1937-1976 9 Andrews, Edward Gayer 1887-1907 10 Archer, Raymond L. 1950-1953 11 Arvidson, Theodor 1947-1958 12 Atkins, James 1905-1971 579A 2 Atkins, James (legal size) 1884-1944 574 13 Avila, Sixto 1937-1941 14 Badley, Brenton Thoburn 1904-1949 15 Baker, James Chamberlain 1927-1951 16 Baker, Osmon Cleander 1833-1864 17 Baker, Osmon Cleander 1841-1869 2022 9 Baker, Osmon Cleander – Certificate (oversize) 1852 574 18 Balloch, Enrique Carlos 1941-1949 19 Barbieri, Sante Uberto 1956-1973 Page 5 F. D. Leete Collection on Methodist Bishops

Box File Contents Dates

574 20 Barbieri, Sante Uberto 1954-1977 21 Barbieri, Sante Uberto 1932-1974 22 Barbieri, Sante Uberto – “The Presiding Elder” 1932 23 Bascom, Henry Bidleman 1937-1948 24 Bashford, J. W. 1889-1943 25 Bast, Anton 1920-1963 26 Bast, Anton 1926-1944 579A 3 Bast, Anton (legal size) 1919-1932 574 27 Baxter, Bruce Richard 1937-1947 28 Beauchamp, William Benjamin 1917-1931 29 Berry, Joseph Flintoft 1892-1923 30 Bickley, George H. 1908-1930 31 Bickley, George H. – Resolutions Book 1903 579A 4 Bickley, George H. (legal size) 1924 574 32 Birney, L. J. and Laura C. 1924-1977 33 Blake, Edgar 1923-1941 34 Boaz, Hiram A. 1932-1962 35 Booth, Newell Snow 1944-1963 36 Bowen, J. W. E. 1948-1949 37 Bowman, Thomas 1890-1911 38 Branscomb, John W. 1952-1953 39 Brashares, Charles W. 1944-1963 40 Bristol, Frank Milton 1889-1969 41 Brooks, Robert Nathaniel 1944 42 Broomfield, John Calvin 1934-1950 43 Brown, Wallace Elias 1909-1945 44 Burns, Charles Wesley 1925-1935 45 Burns, Francis 1957-1961 46 Burt, William 1903-1950 575 1 Camphor, Alexander Priestley 1917-1934 2 Candler, Warren Akin 1893-1934 3 Cannon, James Jr. 1929-1972 4 Cannon, James Jr. 1930-1931 5 Cannon, James Jr. 1930-1945 6 Capers, William 1948-1957 7 Carman, Albert 1917-1948 8 Chen, W. Y. 1944-1948 9 Chitambar, Jashwant Rao 1916-1952 579A 5 Chitambar, Jashwant Rao (legal size) 1922-1930 575 10 Chung, Choon Soo 1934-1939 11 Clair, Matthew Wesley Jr. 1921-1942 12 Clark, Davis Wasgatt 1842-1867 F. D. Leete Collection on Methodist Bishops Page 6

Box File Contents Dates

575 13 Cooke, Richard Joseph 1905-1931 14 Coors, D. Stanley 1944-1956 15 Corson, Fred Pierce 1943-1952 16 Cranston, Earl [contents moved – See Earl Cranston Papers] 17 Cushman, Ralph S. 1933-1956 18 Dacorso, Cesar Filho 1938-1950 19 Darlington, Urban Valentine Williams 1928-1953 20 Dawsey, Cyrus Bassett 1946-1950 21 Dawson, Dana 1948-1953 22 Decell, John Lloyd 1938-1945 23 Denny, Collins 1915-1946 579A 6 Denny, Collins (legal size) 1937 575 24 Dickey, James Edward 1905-1932 25 Dobbs, Hoyt M. 1932-1948 26 Doggett, David S. 1830-1880 27 DuBose, Horace Mellard 1884-1948 28 Duncan, William W. 1888-1904 29 Early, John 1870-1945 30 Elphick, Roberto 1940-1951 31 Ensley, F. Gerald 1952 32 Eveland, William Perry 1912-1947 33 Fairbarn, Charles Victor 1945-1952 34 Fisher, Frederick Bohn 1903-1928 35 Fitzgerald, James Newbury 1887-1905 36 Fitzgerald, Oscar Penn 1886-1957 37 Flint, Charles Wesley 1927-1956 38 Foss, Cyrus David 1883-1906 39 Foster, Randolph Sinks 1878-1948 40 Fowler, Charles Henry 1872-1904 41 Franklin, Marvin Augustus 1949-1954 42 Galloway, Charles B. 1892-1946 43 Galloway, Paul V. 1970-1973 44 Garber, Paul Neff 1933-1956 45 Garth, Schuyler Edward 1945-1947 46 Gattinoni, Juan E. 1934-1945 47 George, Enoch 1928 48 Goodsell, Daniel Ayres 1890-1954 49 Gowdy, John 1920-1940 50 Granbery, John Cowper 1895-1956 51 Griffith, George William 1909-1946 52 Gross, George R. 1912-1924 Page 7 F. D. Leete Collection on Methodist Bishops

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575 53 Guerra, Eleazar 1938-1947 54 Hagen, Odd 1953 55 Hamilton, Franklin Elmer Ellsworth 1890-1918 56 Hamilton, John William 1892-1964 57 Hamilton, John William 1906-1933 58 Hamilton, John William - Photographs 1900-1933 579A 7 Hamilton, John William (legal size) 1908-1934 2022 10 Hamilton, John William – Resolution (oversize) 1934 576 1 Hamline, Leonidas Lent 1845-1883 2 Hammaker, Wilbur Emery 1938-1953 3 Hargrove, Robert Kennon 1889-1901 4 Harrell, Costen Jordan 1908-1952 5 Harris, Merriman Colbert 1887-1962 6 Harris, William Logan 1870-1884 7 Hartman, Lewis Oliver 1928-1954 8 Hartzell, Joseph 1911-1945 9 Haven, Erastus Otis 1858-1881 10 Haven, Gilbert 1869-1879 11 Hay, Samuel Ross 1937-1950 12 Haygood, Atticus Green 1866-1946 579A 8 Haygood, Atticus Green (legal size) 1866-1868 2022 11 Haygood, Atticus Green (oversize) 1888-1899 576 13 Hedding, Elijah 1862-1951 14 Henderson, Theodore Sommers 1912-1927 15 Hendrix, Eugene Russell 1888-1945 16 Hiraiwa, Yoshiyasu 1902-1915 17 Holt, Ivan Lee 1934-1967 18 Honda, Yoitsu 1894-1956 19 Honda, Yoitsu – Diary 1906 20 Hoss, Elijah Embree 1897-1917 21 Hughes, Edwin Holt 1908-1948 22 Hughes, Matthew Simpson 1898-1918 23 Hughes, William Alfred Carroll 1927-1952 24 Hurst, John Fletcher [contents moved to John Fletcher Hurst Papers] 25 Janes, Edmund Storer 1851-1876 26 Johnson, Eben Samuel 1916-1939 27 Jones, Burton Rensselaer 1947-1948 28 Jones, Robert Elijah 1920-1942 29 Joyce, Isaac Wilson 1882-1905 30 Kaung, Z. T. 1941-1950 31 Kavanaugh, Hubbard Hinde 1853-1947 F. D. Leete Collection on Methodist Bishops Page 8

Box File Contents Dates

576 32 Keener, John Christian 1876-1950 33 Keeney, Frederick 1920-1952 34 Kelly, Edward Wendall 1950 35 Kennedy, Gerald H. 1948-1964 36 Kern, Paul Bentley 1932-1953 37 Key, Joseph Staunton 1874-1947 38 Kilgo, John Carlisle 1921-1926 39 Kim, Chong Oo 1938-1949 40 King, Willis Jefferson 1895-1954 41 Kingsley, Calvin 1861-1975 42 Kugimiya, Tokio 1937-1939 43 Lacy, George Carleton 1944-1951 44 Lambuth, Walter Russell 1948 45 Ledden, W. Earl 1934-1947 46 Lee, Edwin Ferdinand 1932-1955 47 Leete, Frederick DeLand 1937-1963 48 Leonard, Adna Wright 1863-1945 49 Leonard, Adna Wright 1863-1943 579A 9 Leonard, Adna Wright (legal size) 1943 576 50 Lew, H. J. 1956 51 Lewis, W. S. 1900-1920 52 Locke, Charles Edward 1912-1946 53 Lord, John Wesley 1949 54 Lowe, Titus 1924-1950 55 Luccock, Naphtali 1877-1952 577 1 Magee, Junius Ralph 1934-1971 2 Mallallieu, Willard Francis 1886-1910 3 Marston, Leslie Roy 1943-1964 4 Marvin, Enoch Mather 1875-1950 5 McCabe, Charles Cardwell 1872-1906 6 McConnell, Francis John 1909-1947 7 McCoy, James Henry 1901-1955 8 McDowell, William Fraser 1892-1937 9 McIntyre, Robert 1888-1913 10 McKendree, William 1897 11 McMurray, William Fletcher 1916-1968 12 McTyreire, Holland Nimmons 1880-1942 13 Mead, Charles Larew 1920-1941 14 Melle, Freidrich Heinrich Otto 1921-1948 15 Merrill, Stephen Mason 1885-1966 16 Miller, George Ames 1924-1954 17 Mitchell, Charles Bayard 1901-1942 Page 9 F. D. Leete Collection on Methodist Bishops

Box File Contents Dates

577 18 Mondol, Shot Kumar 1941-1957 19 Moore, Arthur J. 1934-1954 20 Moore, David Hastings 1884-1915 21 Moore, John M. 1948 22 Moore, John M. 1912-1975 23 Morris, Thomas Asbury 1845-1915 24 Morrison, Henry Clay 1906-1907 579A 10 Mouzon, Edwin DuBose (legal size) 1917 577 25 Mouzon, Edwin DuBose 1912-1937 26 Murrah, William Belton 1913-1914 27 Neely, Thomas Benjamin 1893-1924 28 Newell, Frederick Buckley 1952-1955 29 Newman, John Philip 1877-1958 30 Nicholson, Thomas [contents moved to Thomas Nicholson Papers] 31 Ninde, William X. [contents moved to William X. Ninde Family Papers] 32 Northcott, H. Clifford 1948-1955 33 Nuelsen, John Louis 1910-1946 34 Oldham, William Fitzjames 1900-1937 35 Ormston, Mark D. 1939-1951 36 Oxnam, Garfield Bromley 1937-1957 37 Oxnam, Garfield Bromley 1940-1955 38 Oxnam, Garfield Bromley 1940-1955 39 Paine, Robert 1882-1941 40 Parker, Edwin Wallace 1890-1969 41 Parker, Linus 1946 42 Pascoe, Juan Nicanor 1930-1932 43 Pearce, William 1939-1947 44 Peck, Jesse Treusdell 1873-1881 45 Peele, William Walter 1938-1951 46 Phillips, Glenn R. 1949-1964 47 Pickett, Jarrell Waskom 1942-1950 48 Pierce, George Foster 1881-1951 49 Purcell, Clare 1938-1952 50 Quayle, William Alfred 1899-1948 51 Raines, Richard C. 1930-1954 52 Reed, Marshall R. 1944-1954 53 Richardson, Ernest Gladstone 1874-1947 54 Richardson, James 1860-1890 55 Roberts, Benjamin Titus 1885-1953 56 Roberts, Robert Richford 1840-1890 57 Robinson, John Edward 1904-1919 58 Robinson, John Wesley 1912-1947 F. D. Leete Collection on Methodist Bishops Page 10

Box File Contents Dates

577 59 Rockey, Clement Daniel 1938-1952 60 Ryang, Ju Sam 1932-1954 578 1 Scott, Isaiah Benjamin 1899-1949 2 Selecman, Charles Claude 1923-1971 3 Sellew, Walter Ashbel 1900-1948 4 Shaw, Alexander Preston 1926-1946 5 Shepherd, William Orville 1913-1947 6 Shepherd, William Orville – Bible 1879-1930 7 Short, Roy H. 1948-1973 8 Simpson, Matthew 1873-1942 9 Slicer, Henry 1875-1956 10 Smith, Alexander Coke 1889-1907 11 Smith, Charles William 1898-1911 12 Smith, Harry Lester 1912-1944 13 Smith, Philander 1860-1920 14 Smith, William Angie 1944-1953 15 Sommer, J. W. Ernst 1946-1952 16 Soule, Joshua 1842-1948 17 Spellmeyer, Henry 1880-1907 18 Springer, John McKendree 1912-1958 19 Springer, John McKendree: “I Love the Trail” 1950 20 Springer, John McKendree 1953 21 Straughn, James Henry 1937-1968 22 Stuntz, Homer Clyde 1883-1920 23 Subhan, John Abdus 1940-1951 24 Sucasas, Isaias Fernandes 1946 25 Tarboux, John William 1940-1947 26 Taylor, J. Paul 1947-1949 27 Taylor, William 1863-1951 28 Thirkeild, Wilbur Patterson 1894-1969 29 Thoburn, James Mills 1888-1907 30 Tigert, John James III 1899-1950 31 Tippett, Donald H. 1948-1952 32 Usaki, Kogoro 1910-1950 33 Valencia, José L. 1953-1959 34 Vincent, John H. [contents moved to John Heyl Vincent Papers] 35 Voight, Edwin E. 1952-1955 36 Wade, Raymond J. 1922-1954 37 Walden, John Morgan 1873-1911 38 Waldorf, Ernest Lynn 1920-1948 39 Wang, Chih P’ing 1930-1948 40 Ward, Ralph A. 1938-1963 Page 11 F. D. Leete Collection on Methodist Bishops

Box File Contents Dates 578 41 Ward, Seth 1887-1946 42 Warne, Francis Wesley 1900-1939 43 Warne, Francis Wesley – Lizzie Johnson’s Quilt 1910-1930 44 Warren, Henry White 1864-1948 45 Waterhouse, Richard Green 1898-1937 46 Watkins, William Turner 1938-1957 47 Watts, H. Bascom 1952 48 Welch, Herbert 1910-1962 579A 11 Welch, Herbert (legal size) 1932-1960 578 49 Werner, Hazen G. 1950-1956 50 Wesley, Arthur Frederick 1945-1949 51 Wicke, Lloyd C. 1953-1968 52 Wightman, William May 1845 53 Wilson, Alpheus W. 1895-1908 54 Wilson, Luther Barton 1902-1948 55 Zahniser, Arthur DeFrance 1933-1950

Series 2: Prints and Photographs, 1852-1964 The second series consists of prints and photographs divided into three subseries: prints (ordered by date), photographs of individuals (ordered by last name), and group photographs (ordered by date). All images in box 2023 are larger than 8x10”. Smaller prints and photographs can be found in many of the series 1 folders and in box 579A, files 12-26.

Subseries 1: Prints 2023 1 Bishops of the M. E. Church, South 1852 2 Centenary of American Methodism 1866 3 American Methodism 1872 4 Founder Bishops M. E. Church 1872 5 Bishops of the M. E. Church 1872 6 Bishops of the M. E. Church 1873 7 Bishops of the M. E. Church, South (3 copies) 1877

Subseries 2: Photographs of Individuals 2023 8 Ainsworth, William N. 1900-1925 579A 12 Asbury, Francis (Leete book, pages 25 and 45) 1948 2023 9 Hamilton, John William 1932 10 Hurst, John F. 1890-1903 11 Lambuth, Walter Russell 1900-1921 12 Nicholson, Thomas 1920-1950 13 Ninde, William X. 1890-1901 14 Smith, A. Frank 1950-1960 15 Waldorf, Earnest Lynn 1900-1950 F. D. Leete Collection on Methodist Bishops Page 12

Box File Contents Dates

Subseries 3: Group Photographs 2023 16 Bishops of the M. E. Church 1884 17 Bishop Ninde preaching to the Foochow Conf. 1885-1890 18 Bareilly Theological Seminary (Bishop Ninde) 1886 19 Bishops of the M. E. Church 1888-1901 20 Bishops of the M. E. Church (by W. L. Hoff) 1891 21 Bishops of the M. E. Church (2 copies) 1895 22 Bishops of the M. E. Church 1900 23 Bishops, M. E. Church, South in Asheville, NC 1902-1919 579A 13 Bishops of the M. E. Church, South 1904 2023 24 Bishops of the M. E. Church, South in Waco, TX 1904 25 Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1909 26 Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1910-1919 27 Board of Bishops, M. E. Church 1912 28 Bishops of the M. E. Church 1913 579A 14 Bishops: “Hostetler – Des Moines” 1920 2023 29 Bishops of the M. E. Church 1920 579A 15 Bishops meeting, Darjeeling, India 1921 2023 30 Bishops of the M. E. Church, South (2 copies) 1923 31 College of Bishops, M. E. Church, South (2 copies) 1930 32 Judicial Council, M. E. Church, South (2 copies) 1934 579A 16 Our Bishops 1784-1934 (MECS) 1934 17 MEC, MECS, and MPC bishops in Nashville, TN 1938 2023 33 Bishops attending Methodist Unification Conference 1939 579A 18 Bishops Moore, Straughn, and Hughes 1939 19 Bishops of the Free Methodist Church (Leete, p. 441) 1942 20 Some early bishops (Leete book, p. 101) 1948 21 First bishops of the MECS (Leete, p. 121) 1948 22 M. E. bishops of the Nineteenth Century (Leete, p. 185) 1948 23 MECS bishops, Middle Period (Leete, p. 255) 1948 24 Bishops Attending Meth. Unification Conference (p. 441) 1948 25 Bishops’ Council, Methodist Church 1949 2023 34 Methodist Church bishops in Minneapolis 1956 579A 26 Multiple bishops (some identified) 1900-1960 2023 35 Council of Bishops, Methodist Church 1964