Gannett (William Channing) Papers, 1841-1953 [finding guide]

"Correspondence and other papers of William Channing Gannett (b. 1840, d. 1923), Unitarian minister in St. Paul, Minn. (1877-1883) and Rochester, N.Y. (1889-1908). Correspondence to and from Mr. Gannett includes letters from Jane Addams, Abigail May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Samuel Longfellow, Elihu Root, Alphonso and William Howard Taft, Booker T. Washington, Frank Lloyd Wright and many Unitarian leaders of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Also, letters relating to the Western Unitarian Controversy, the education of the freedmen at Port Royal, the temperance crusade, Unity magazine, Unitarian church organization and membership, and to the editing of Unity Hymns and Chorals by Mr. Gannett and Frederick L. Hosmer ... ."

"Other material includes diaries belonging to Gannett and his wife, Mary Thorn (Lewis) Gannett, personal financial papers, hymns and hymnals, Gannett lectures and published writings ... In addition, family correspondence ... ."

"Presented to the University of Rochester Library by Lewis Stiles Gannett, New York, and Dr. E. Carleton MacDowell, Long Island, New York, Feb. 5, 1953; by Dr. Charles H. Lyttle, Chicago, Ill., Nov. 22, 1954; and by Lewis Stiles Gannett, West Cornwall, Conn., and Dr. E. Carleton MacDowell, Long Island, May 17, 1965".