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This amazing diary of Reverend William Thornton Findley contains 288 handwritten pages and represents his life from December 4 th , 1884 through June 23 rd , 1885. Although the diary does not contain a full year, it is large measuring about 5 ¼” x 8 ¾” and is 1” thick. Reverend Findley writes every day and some of his entries for each day consist of several pages so there is so as you can imagine, there is a great deal of information in this diary. He not only writes what the events of the day are but on many occasions he shares his deepest thought and feelings. William Thornton Findley was born in West Middletown, Pennsylvania, June 2 nd , 1814. He removed with his parents to Ohio in 1824, was graduated at Franklin College, Ohio, in 1839, and was licensed to preach in the Associate Reformed Church on June 12 th of that year. He has held pastorates at Chillicothe, Springfield, and Xenia, Ohio, and Newark, New Jersey, and in 1867 and 68 edited the "Family Treasure," published in Cincinnati. He has published about twenty sermons. So many of the entries in this diary stuck out to me but perhaps the biggest one was that of the illness of President (General) Grant. He seems to be very concerned about Grant and writes continually about the ex President’s last days, his illness with throat cancer and Grants writings. /wiki/Personal_Memoirs_of_Ulysses_S._Grant His entries also focus on the illness and death of Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen. Grants and Frelinghuysen’s entries seem to go hand in hand on many occasions. /wiki/Frederick_Theodore_Frelinghuysen Other interesting entries include mention of the Gaines family of New Orleans; /product/id/21490 Plus the Pink eye epidemic in the area, war news between Russian and England, the insanity of a woman by the name of Mrs. Smith who eventually ends up in an asylum, the great German Gymnastic group called the Turners who have come to Newark and the mention of quite a few “fallen” pastors. He also preaches at many funerals and conducts marriages. There are a few pages with newspaper clippings but all the other pages are as full of writing as the scanned examples above. Powerful, enlightening and noteworthy is the way I would describe the passages in Reverend Findley’s diary as you will see in the following excerpts…..1884“December 4 th , A beautiful day and weather mild. Wrote a short notice of the inauguration of H. M. Mac Cracken as Prof. of mental and moral science in New York City University for the Herald and Presbyter. Received a note from Jersey City informing me that Rev. A. Allen was engaged at Williamsport PA for next Sabbath. I sent the notice to Mr. Job Haines, elder of the 6 th church. Called in the afternoon on Mr. Schultz, Mrs. Ella Cobb and M. T. Baker. Feigelstein’s Brewery was burned this afternoon. A loss to insurance companies of about $100.00. Two men were seriously burned and one of them it is believed will die of his injuries and possibly the other also……” “December 6 th , …….Me and Emily and Julia went this evening to the Assembly Hall to hear Mr. Riddle, an elocutionist, who gives an entertainment for the benefit of the Foster Homes at $1.00 a ticket. It has been raining hard ever since dusk. The Xenia Gazette informs us of the continued illness of Mrs. John Moore, who has now been seriously ill for 6 weeks. Also of Helen Ormsby’s return from the place to which her mother had taken her for protection from her wicked passions. Mrs. O. is visiting friends in Boston. Such an inexplicable case of depravity, I have never known before. The child, a daughter, shameless and crushing the life out of the parents by her course of life bringing only present wretchedness to her, and only the prospect of endless misery in the endless future……..” “December 10 th , ……This morning’s Register contains an editorial to the effect that the wife of (so-...
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