Correspondence
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- Part Of
- Jim and Dorothy Boyce fonds
- Scope & Content
- One file of Reverend Richard Whiteman's personal correspondence.
- Date Range
- 1908-1926
- Reference Code
- M250 / II / 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Jim and Dorothy Boyce fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- II. Reverend A. W. R. Whiteman papers
- Accession Number
- 7363
- Reference Code
- M250 / II / 1
- Date Range
- 1908-1926
- Physical Description
- 1 cm of textual records.
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description for biographical history. Reverend Arthur Wellesley Richard Whiteman was born in 1865 in Teeswater, ON. He graduated with a Bachelors Degree from Queen’s University and received his Bachelor of Divinity from his studies at the Belfast and Edinburgh Universities. He also attended Robertson College for a year in Edmonton. Rev. Whiteman began his career as a missionary in British Columbia. He worked in Presbyterian churches in Cardston, Cochrane, Calgary and Macleod. At Knox Church in Calgary he was financial secretary and assistant minister for nine years. He was active in the church union question, and organized congregation members at Knox Church and St. Andrew’s, Macleod who voted against union. He married Nina L. Whiteman (nee Grenny) in 1898, and their daughter Dorothy Whiteman was born in 1901. Rev. Whiteman died in 1926 in Macleod, AB.
- Scope & Content
- One file of Reverend Richard Whiteman's personal correspondence.
- Subject Access
- Professional and Personal Life
- Title Source
- Title based on records.
- Content Details
- Correspondence includes letters regarding the death of Richard Henry, the legal matters between Reverend Whiteman and Knox Church, and the settling of the Grenny Estate. File includes empty envelopes and undated correspondence, including a typed copy of the Sinn Fein Oath.
- Processing Status
- Processed
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