Guide to the Frederick Schweitzer Papers
Open for research.
Frederick Schweitzer was born in Philadelphia on December 1, 1890. He graduated from Princeton University in 1915 and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1924. He earned a doctorate from the College of the Ozarks in 1928. In 1919, Schweitzer married B. Dora Page of Philadelphia.
Schweitzer was ordained by Philadelphia North Presbytery in 1918. He served as a United States Naval chaplain on a troop ship during the last year of the First World War. From the end of the war until 1957, he served as a member of the Special Committee on Army and Navy Chaplains. From 1919-1924 he was pastor of Second Presbyterian Church, Cranbury, NJ, and from 1924-45 he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Ridley Park, PA.
In 1944 Schweitzer was elected moderator of the Pennsylvania Synod, and the following year he became president of Bloomfield College and Seminary, Bloomfield, NJ. He retired from Bloomfield in 1959.
Record Group 152 includes Schweitzer's diaries, sermons, lecture notes, and records of his work at Bloomfield Seminary and as synod moderator. It also includes a series of Dora Page Schweitzer's diaries.
Collection processed and container list prepared: July 1980
Jane Ramsay, Records Researcher
Finding aid revised and notes added: June 1992
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 152 | |
| 1 | 2 | School Papers, 1900-1910 | |
| 1 | 3-10 | Diaries, 1908-1974 | |
| 1 | 11 | Letters of Recommendation for Position in Chaplaincy, 1918 | |
| 1 | 12 | Calls to Pastorates--Cranbury, NJ, 1919; Ridley Park, PA, 1924 | |
| 1 | 13 | Ridley Park--Twentieth Anniversary as Pastor, 1944 | |
| 1 | 13A | Baptismal records, 1919-1938, 1950 | |
| 1 | 13B | Marriage licenses and stubs, 1920-1960 | |
| 1 | 14-20 | Sermons, 1917-1921 | |
| 2 | 1-2 | Sermons, 1922-1923 | |
| 2 | 3 | Sermons, 1963 | |
| 2 | 4 | Sermons, undated | |
| Bible Study Class | |||
| 2 | 5 | Notes on the Subject "Guilt" | |
| 2 | 6 | Greek Historians, 1970-1971 | |
| 2 | 7 | Ruth, Introduction to New Testament, Rationalism and Mysticism, 1971-1972 | |
| 2 | 8 | Notes on Greek History and Philosophy, 1973 | |
| 2 | 9 | Aristotle's Ethics, 1973 | |
| 2 | 10 | Gospel of John, 1973 | |
| 2 | 11 | Ephesians, undated | |
| 2 | 12 | Galatians, undated | |
| Bloomfield College and Seminary | |||
| 2 | 13 | Resignation from Pastorate to Accept Presidency of Bloomfield, 1944 | |
| 2 | 14 | Controversy re Academic Freedom, Correspondence, Report of Evaluation and Appraisal, 1951-1954 | |
| 2 | 14 | Correspondence with Board of Christian Education, 1955 | |
| 2 | 14 | Accreditation, 1960 | |
| 2 | 15 | Evaluation--Correspondence and Reports, 1952-1954 | |
| 2 | 16 | Data Presented for Evaluation, 1954 | |
| 2 | 17 | Self-Evaluation, 1959 | |
| 2 | 18 | Evaluation Report of Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, Dean's Comments, 1959 | |
| 2 | 19 | Correspondence and Papers, 1960 | |
| 2 | 20 | Moderator--Synod of Pennsylvania, 1944-1945 | |
| 2 | 21 | Fiftieth Anniversary of Ordination—Personal Correspondence, 1968 | |
| 2 | 22 | Memorial Service for Princeton Reunion, 1970 | |
| 2 | 23 | The Princeton Symposium--Membership List, Correspondence, 1960, 1965 | |
| 2 | 24 | The Philadelphia Academy (Reading Group), 1966-1967 | |
| 2 | 25 | Bernardsville Symposium–Membership List, Correspondence, 1970-1971 | |
| 2 | 26 | Presbyterian Ministers' Fund--Correspondence, 1967 | |
| 2 | 27 | Personal Correspondence, 1945-1951, 1955-1966, 1973-1974 | |
| 2 | 28 | Special Committee on Army and Navy Chaplains--Meetings; Notes regarding Evaluation of Applicants, 1943-1944 | |
| 2 | 29 | Canterbury Cleric--Membership List 1961, Constitution and By-Laws, 1966, Founders' Day, 1973 | |
| Dora Page Schweitzer--Diaries, Scrapbooks of Travels | |||
| 3 | 1 | Dora Page--miscellaneous items, 1911-1912 | |
| 3 | 2 | West Coast, 1927 | |
| 3 | 3 | Through NY, New England and Canada, 1931 | |
| 3 | 4 | Around the Gaspe, 1932, 1938 | |
| 3 | 5-6 | Florida, 1938 | |
| 3 | 7 | Lake St. Jean, Canada, 1939 | |
| 3 | 8 | Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1940 | |
| 3 | 9 | Prince Edward Island, 1941 | |
| 3 | 10 | 154th General Assembly, Milwaukee, 1942 | |
| 3 | 11 | Wolfeboro, NH, 1942 | |
| 3 | 12 | Orchard Camp, Valcour, NY, 1943 | |
| 3 | 13 | Wolfeboro; Canada; Roosevelt, MI; Hyde Park, 1946 | |
| 3 | 14 | General Assembly, 1947--Grand Rapids, MI; Wolfeboro, 1947 | |
| 3 | 15 | Ontario, Canada 1948 | |
| 3 | 16 | Wolfeboro, 1948; Colebrook, NY, 1949 |