Jabez Thomas Sunderland papers, 1868-1936

Summary

Creator:

Sunderland, Jabez Thomas, 1842-1936

Abstract:

Unitarian minister, anti-imperialist, and advocate of independence for India. Extensive professional and family correspondence, diaries, sermons, manuscripts of books and articles, research notes, topical file on India, printed material, newspaper clippings, and miscellanea; also papers concerning his career first as a Baptist minister, later a Unitarian minister in Ann Arbor, Michigan and elsewhere, including his involvement in the Western Unitarian Conference.

Extent:

49.4 linear feet
1 oversize folder

Language:

English.

Call Number:

86485 Aa 2; UAm

Authors:

Finding aid prepared by: William McNitt (1972); Leilani Dawson (2003); Adriane Hansen (2005); Leonard Coombs (2013)

Background

Scope and Content:

The Sunderland papers are very complete for the early years of his career (1868-1887). The collection is divided into the following thirteen series: Correspondence, undated and 1868-1936, Visual Materials, Student papers and notebooks, Church and Ministerial Activities, Western Unitarian Conference, Diaries, Notebooks, etc., Sermon file, Manuscripts of Books and Articles, Research Notes and Manuscripts, Printed Materials, Topical Files on India, Miscellaneous Papers and Notebooks, Biographical/Autobiographical Material, and Topical File.

Biographical / Historical:

Jabez Thomas Sunderland (1842-1936) was an influential Unitarian minister and a leading anti-imperialist in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was born in Yorkshire, England, but his family soon moved to the United States where he was educated at the University of Chicago (A.B., 1867; A.M., 1869) and the Baptist Union Theological Seminary (B.D., 1870).

Sunderland entered the Baptist ministry even before he finished his seminary work and served churches in Omaha and Milwaukee. By 1872, his liberal religious beliefs caused him to leave the Baptist church and accept a position with the Unitarian church of Northfield, Massachusetts. He stayed in Northfield for four years and then served as minister at Unitarian churches in Chicago (1876-1878), Ann Arbor (1878-1898), Oakland, California (1898-1899), London, England (1900-1901), Toronto, Canada (1901-1907), Hartford, Connecticut (1907-1911), Ottawa, Canada (1912-1913) and Poughkeepsie, New York (1914-1927).

Acquisition Information:

The Sunderland papers were donated by Mrs. Alice Sunderland Wethy (donor no. 3061 ) in 1972. The papers also contain material donated by Mrs. Janet Toohy Ferguson (donor no. 9192 ) in 2002. Additional materials were donated by David Sunderland Wethy (donor no. 10888 ) in 2013.

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Related Material

The Bentley Historical Library also has the papers of Jabez Sunderland's wife, Eliza Jane Read Sunderland, and their children Edson, Florence, and Gertrude Sunderland, papers of the Safford and Sunderland family, as well as the records of Ann Arbor First Unitarian Church.

Selective Index to Correspondents

Abernethy, Alonzo, 1836-1915.	1869, 1870, 1872, Dec. 27, 1875, June 24, 1876
Aked, Charles Frederic, 1864-1941.	Mar. 10, 1911
Allen, Joseph Henry, 1820-1898.	1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, May 15, 1886, 1887, Jan. 7, 1898
American Anti-Imperialist, League.	May 6, 1909, Sept. 17, 1910
American League to Limit Armaments.	Mar. 18, 1916 (L. Hollingsworth Wood)
Ames, Charles Gordon, 1828-1912.	1877, 1878, Mar. 10, 1879, Mar. 24, 1880.
Andrews, C. F. (Charles Freer), 1871-1940.	1930, 1932, 1933, 1935
Angell, George T. (George Thorndike), 1823-1909.	1873, 1879.
Angell, James Burrill, 1829-1916.	Apr. 29, 1872, July 4, 1895, Mar. 22, 1897, Dec. 10, 1905, Mar.14, 1910
Bagley, John Judson, 1832-1881.	Feb. 21, 1879, Feb. 28, 1879
Baldwin, William Henry, 1826-1909.	Nov. 11, 1872, 1873, 1875, Nov. 10, 1877, Oct. 15, 1878, May 30, 1884, Dec. 5, 1886, Sept. 19, 1898
Batchelor, George, 1836-1923.	1906, 1907
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950.	Apr. 28, 1925, Jan. 31, 1929, May 16, 1929, 1930, 1931, July 10, 1932, Jan. 20, 1933, Apr. 13, 1933, Dec. 17, 1934, Dec. 13, 1935.
Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir, 1858-1937.	Undated, Mar. 8, 1909, Apr. 5, 1910
Bose, Sudhindra, 1883-	Extensive correspondence, 1920's and 1930's
Bowie, W. Copeland (William Copeland)	Correspondence, 1895-1913, July 31, 1918
Brigham, Charles Henry, 1820-1879.	Dec. 9, 1876, Jan. 16, 1877
Canada India League	July 5, 1916, Sept. 30, 1917
Chadwick, John White, 1840-1904.	1877, 1878, 1880, Aug. 16, 1883, 1887, Feb. 5, i890, May 8, 1892, Feb. 20, 1897, Dec. 19, 1900
Chapin, Augusta J. d. 1905.	1878, Mar. 21, 1879.
Chatterjee, Ramananda, 1865-1943.	Dec. 21, 1895, Feb. 1, 1907, Apr. 26, 1907, Mar. 25, 1909, Dec. 9, 1909, Aug. 11, 1910, Feb. 2, 1911, June 1, 1915, Nov. 4, 1915, Feb. 7, 1918, Nov. 9, 1922, Nov. 11, 1922, Sept. 19, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936
Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888.	Sept. 19, 1075, Mar. 22, 1880, June 16, 1885, Dec. 13, 1886
Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912.	Nov. 30, 1876, Feb. 4, 1878, May 2, 1879, July 7, 1879, July 6, 1882, May 13, 1887, Jan. 16, 1888, Sept. 21, 1896, Nov. 13, 1896, Nov. 17, 1896, Mar. 8, 1900, June 23, 1909, Mar. 10, 1910
Cooke, George Willis, 1848-1923.	1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, Mar. 7, 1887, Nov. 31, 1899, 1900, Mar. 1910, Apr. 27, 1918, Jan. 26, 1891, Nov. 13, 1891
Crane, Augustus Warren, 1868-1937.	Sept. 21, 1897
Crane, Caroline Bartlett, 1858-1935.	Nov. 11, 1891, Nov. 22, 1896, Mar, 1910, May 30, 1910, Sept. 19, 1910, Jan. 1, 1932, Nov. 6, 1934, Oct. 19, 1934
Crooker, Joseph Henry, 1850-1931.	Undated, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, Dec. 9, 1881, 1882, 1883, Apr. 19, 1884, 1886, 1891, 1898, 1899, 1900, Feb. 17, 1902, Nov. 23, 1903, Mar. 3, 1907, Dec. 29, 1907, 1908, Mar. 10, 1910, Apr. 5, 1911, Oct. 29,1917, Nov. 7, 1917, May 2, 1923, May 14, 1927, 1930, Feb. 4, 1931
Das, Taraknath, 1884-1958.	1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935
De Normandie, James, 1836-1924.	1881, 1882, Feb. 20, 1887
Drummond, James, 1835-1918.	Oct. 30 1889, Aug. 2, 1893
Durant, Will, 1885-	July 8, 1931, Feb. 11, 1932, Sept. 10, 1932
Eliot, Samuel Atkins, 1862-1950.	Feb. 10, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, Dec. 6, 1906, 1907, Jan. 27, 1909, June 24, 1909, Jan. 10, 1910, June 23, 1913, Feb. 2, 1925, Mar. 5, 1927
Everett, Charles Carroll, 1829-1900.	Nov. 11, 1878, Dee. 3, 1878
Ferris, Woodbridge N., 1853-1928	Mar. 1, 1898
Foote, Henry Wilder, 1875-1964	Apr. 20, 1907, Mar. 14, 1910, Apr. 1, 1910, May 9, 1910, Oct. 10, 1910, 1913
Friends of Freedom for India	May 14, 1919
Friends of India's Independence	Nov. 12, 1930
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.	May 11, 1927, May 4, 1928, June 17, 1928, Sept. 9, 1928, Mar. 6, 1929
Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966.	June 10, 1929
Gannett, William C. (William Channing), 1840-1923	1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1838-1909.	Jan. 6, 1905, Mar. 28, 1908
Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885-	July 7, 1930, Oct. 20, 1930, 1931
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909.	Nov. 3, 1875, Apr. 5, Oct. 10, Oct. 11, 1882, Apr. 20, Oct. 1, 1883, 1884, Feb. 29, 1892, July 28, 1893, Jan. 10, 1894, May 18, 1892
Hay, John, 1838-1905.	May 5, 1899
Herford, Brooke, 1830-1903.	Dec. 2, 1876, Apr. 17, 1878, Nov. 21, 1878, Mar. 6, 1879, Nov. 15, 1880, Jan. 20, 1881, Oct. 28, 1881, Feb. 26, 1882, May 26,1884, June 4, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, Apr. 29, 1891, July 25 1897, Dec. 23, 1897, Mar. 30, 1898, Nov. 29, 1899, May 24, 1900, Oct. 31, 1891
Hindustan Association of America	July 27, 1925, Dec. 19, 1928, Nov. 26, 1929, Dec. 9, 1930, Feb. 9, 1932
Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904.	Feb. 13, 1899
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964.	Mar. 2, 1908, Mar. 14, 1910, Oct. 29, 1925, Feb. 18, 1926, Aug, 3, 1926, Oct. 7, 1926, Nov. 11, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933
Independence League of India.	July 25, 1929
India Academy of America	1931
India Independence League of America	Feb. 14, 1930, Dec. 8, 1930.
India National Congress. American Branch	1929, 1930, 1931, 1932
India Society of America	Mar. 23, 1925, Apr. 16, 1925, Nov. 24, 1928, Mar. 22, 1929, Nov. 28, 1929, Sept. 10, 1930
Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899.	Oct. 20, 1877, Mar. 22, 1879
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885.	Dec. 3, 1884
Japan Society	Oct. 11, Nov. 9, 1917
Jones, Jenkin Lloyd, 1843-1918	Nov. 18, 1875, Aug. 18, 1876, Jan. 10, 1878, Dec. 1878, 1879, May 10, 1880, Dec. 1, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, Dec. 14, 1885, Sept. 30, 1892, Sept. 21, 1896, Feb. 11, 1898, Sept. 12, 1899, Mar. 30, Apr. 7, 1910, Nov. 17, 1917, Apr. 4, 1918.
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.	Mar. 2, Mar. 20, Apr. 1, May 26, 1925
King, Judson, 1872-1958	Mar. 30, 1928, 1931
Krishna Menon, V. K. (Vengalil Krishnan), 1897-1974.	July 18, 1932
Ladd, George Trumbull, 1842-1921.	July 17, 1872, Feb. 24, 1873
Lajpat Rai, Lala, 1865-1928.	Mar. 5, 1916, Sept. 11, 1917, Mar. 3, 1925, June 14, 1927, June 24, 1928, Nov. 29, 1921
Mabie, Henry Clay, 1847-1918.	Dec. 4, 1874, May 5, 1875
McMillan, James, 1838-1902.	Feb. 11, 1897
Manny, Frank Addison, 1868-1954.	Jan. 18, 1928
Martineau, James, 1805-1900.	Jan. 26, 1889, June 1, 1895
Mead, Edwin Deak, 1849-1937.	Jan. 12, 1883, Apr. 22, 1909
Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936.	Dec. 5, 1908, Mar. 11, 1910, May 5, 1930
Michigan Authors' Association	1910
Morehouse, Henry Lyman, 1834-1917.	July 8, 1869
National Liberal League	Apr. 19, 1878, June 13, 1878.
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964.	May 7, 1928
Northrup, George Washington, 1826-1900.	1868, 1869, 1870
Palmer, Thomas Witherell, 1830-1913.	June 22, Dec. 5, 1892, 1895, Mar. 10, 1910
Peabody, Francis Greenvood, 1847-1936.	Sept. 27, 1885, Mar. 25, Apr. 9, 1897
Phelps, Myron H. (Myron Henry), 1856-1916.	1907, 1908, 1909, Feb. 8, 1911
Reid, Gilbert, 1857-1927.	1915, May 19, 1927
Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912.	Oct. 8, 1875
Savage, Minot Judson, 1841-1918.	1877, Nov. 30, 1880, June 25, 1881, Feb. 3, June 14, 1882, Mar. 24, Oct. 30, 1883, Oct. 1893, July 22, 1894, Mar. 10, 1910
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906.	Dec. 12, 1874
Shippen, Joseph, 1839-1923.	1879, Apr. 25, 1881, 1886, 1887, Jan. 10, 1895, Dec. 18, 1899, Dec. 22, 1890, 1891, 1892
Shippen, Rush Rhees, b. 1828.	1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1887, Mar. 8, Mar. 13, 1910, Mar. 5, 1891
Simmons, Henry Martyn, b. 1841.	1878, 1879
Singh, Hajom Kissor, 1865-1923.	1891, 1892, 1899, 1900, Feb. 21, Oct. 11, 1908, 1910, Mar. 14, 1911, 1912, 1913, Jan. 5, Nov. 18, Dec. 12, 1914, 1916, July 12, 1917, 1918, Nov. 24, 1920, Oct. 1, 1921
Society for the Advancement of India	1907, 1908, 1909
Strong, Sydney, 1860-1938.	1930, 1931
Sumner, William Graham, 1840-1910.	Dec. 30, 1873
Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941.	July 21, 1927, June 4, 1928
Toy, Crawford, Howell, 1836-1919.	Nov. 11, 1893, Dec. 10, 1897, Jan. 15, 1898
Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928.	Dec. 16, 1918
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1947.	May 27, 1929, Sept. 13, 1932
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.	May 13, May 21, 1895
Wendte, Charles William, 1844-1931.	July 21, 1872, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, June 23, 1884, Jan. 3, 1886, Jan. 12, 1892, Sept. 21, 1899, 1907, June 10, Nov. 27, 1908, Dec. 21, 1909, 1910, Mar. 27, 1911, Apr. 10, 1911, June 3, 1912, 1913, Nov. 7, Nov. 15, 1915, Feb. 10, Oct. 14, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, Aug. 19, 1930, Jan. 7, 1931
Willard, Frances Elizabeth Caroline, 1839-1898.	March 14, 1892
Winchell, Alexander, 1824-1891.	Feb. 3, 1890
Winslow, Erving, 1839-1922.	Aug. 22, 1899, Oct. 1, 1908, Sept. 17, 1910
Wise, Stephen Samuel, 1874-1949.	Mar. 25, 1910, Dec. 28, 1934

Subjects

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Subjects:

Clergy -- United States.
Imperialism.
Unitarian churches -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Unitarian Universalist churches -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Universalist churches -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Families -- 1903.
Unitarian Universalist churches -- India.

Formats:

Albums.
Diaries.
Photographs.
Portraits.
Scrapbooks.
Sermons.

Names:

First Unitarian Church (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Western Unitarian Conference.
Burlington University.
University of Chicago.
American Anti-Imperialist League.
American League to Limit Armaments.
Canada India League.
Friends of Freedom for India.
Friends of India's Independence.
Hindustan Association of America.
India Academy of America.
India Independence League of America.
Indian National Congress. American Branch.
India Society of America.
Indian Independence League.
Japan Society (New York, N.Y.)
Michigan Authors' Association.
National Liberal League.
Society for the Advancement of India.
Sunderland, Jabez Thomas, 1842-1936.
Sunderland, Eliza Read, 1839-1910.
Abernethy, Alonzo, 1836-1915.
Aked, Charles Frederic, 1864-1941.
Allen, Joseph Henry, 1820-1898.
Ames, Charles Gordon, 1828-1912.
Andrews, C. F. (Charles Freer), 1871-1940.
Angell, George T. (George Thorndike), 1823-1909.
Angell, James Burrill, 1829-1916.
Bagley, John Judson, 1832-1881.
Baldwin, William Henry, 1826-1909.
Batchelor, George, 1836-1923.
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950.
Bose, Jagadis Chandra, 1858-1937.
Bose, Sudhindra, 1883-
Bowie, W. Copeland (William Copeland)
Brigham, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1820-1879.
Chadwick, John White, 1840-1904.
Chapin, Augusta J., -1905.
Chatterjee, Ramananda, 1865-1943.
Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888.
Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912.
Cooke, George Willis, 1848-1923.
Crane, Augustus Warren, 1868-1937.
Crane, Caroline Bartlett, 1858-1935.
Crooker, Joseph Henry, 1850-1931.
Das, Taraknath, 1884-1958.
De Normandie, James, 1836-1924.
Drummond, James, 1835-1924.
Durant, Will, 1885-1981.
Eliot, Samuel Atkins, 1862-1950.
Everett, Charles Carroll, 1829-1900.
Ferris, Woodbridge N., 1853-1928.
Foote, Henry Wilder, 1875-1964.
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966.
Gannett, William C. (William Channing), 1840-1923.
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1838-1909.
Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885-
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909.
Hay, John, 1838-1905.
Herford, Brooke, 1830-1903.
Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904.
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964.
Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899.
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885.
Jones, Jenkin Lloyd, 1843-1918.
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
King, Judson, 1872-1958.
Krishna Menon, V. K. (Vengalil Krishnan), 1897-1974.
Ladd, George Trumbull, 1842-1921.
Lajpat Rai, Lala, 1865-1928.
Mabie, Henry Clay, 1847-1918.
McMillan, James, 1838-1902.
Manny, Frank Addison, 1868-1954.
Martineau, James, 1805-1900.
Mead, Edwin Doak, 1849-1937.
Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936.
Morehouse, Henry Lyman, 1834-1917.
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964.
Northrup, George Washington, 1826-1900.
Palmer, Thomas Witherell, 1830-1913.
Peabody, Francis Greenwood, 1847-1936.
Phelps, Myron H. (Myron Henry), 1856-1916.
Reid, Gilbert, 1857-1927.
Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912.
Savage, Minot Judson, 1841-1918.
Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906.
Shippen, Joseph, 1839-1923.
Shippen, Rush Rhees, 1828-
Simmons, Henry Martyn, 1841-
Singh, Hajom Kissor, 1865-1923.
Strong, Sydney, 1860-1938.
Sumner, William Graham, 1840-1910.
Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941.
Toy, Crawford Howell, 1836-1919.
Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928.
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
Wendte, Charles W. (Charles William), 1844-1931.
Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898.
Winchell, Alexander, 1824-1891.
Winslow, Erving, 1839-1922.
Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949.

Places:

Ann Arbor (Mich.)
India.
India.
Jowai (India)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.