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This collection contains correspondence, documents, and manuscripts written by and relating to Reverend George Johnson Barrett (1818-1876), an itinerant Methodist clergyman from Pittsfield, Illinois.
George Johnson Barrett (1818-1876) was born in Washington County, New York. He moved to Morgan County, Illinois, in 1837, where he began traveling as a Methodist preacher. Barrett had thirteen children, and his youngest, Oliver Rogers Barrett, became an attorney, Lincoln collector, and President of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Society.
This collection contains the correspondence and notes of Reverend George Barrett. In one 1872 letter, Barrett writes to his family from Venice, Italy, while on a journey through Europe. Many of the papers in this collection are notes on biblical texts and sermons given by Barrett near his home in Pittsfield, Illinois.
The Library acquired this collection from Clarendon Van Norman Jr. in 2014.
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