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President of Albion College and chairman of the Prohibition Party National Committee. The collection includes a scrapbook and portraits.

Newspaper clippings concerning his teaching activities in Hastings, Michigan, and Albion College and also the Prohibition Party, the Reform Club of Albion, and personal matters; also photographs.

Portraits of Dickie and of his wife Mary B. Dickie.

Letters describing his war-time activities as a first lieutenant and later a captain; includes details about the battles of Stone's River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, as well as the sieges of Kennesaw Mountain and of Atlanta. He expresses admiration for Generals Rosecrans and Thomas, tells of transporting prisoners and deserters, describes a hanging, and defines the Legion of Honor. Also contains some papers concerning his wife Lottie Langdon Conely's family and two Civil War letters to Lottie from David P. Ingraham (from Brooklyn, Mich.), a lieutenant and captain in Co. A, Ninth Michigan Cavalry, who tells about celebrating the Fourth of July and Christmas, and describes the Tennessee mountains. Includes unidentified photos of a beach party and bicyclists.