Guide to the Alonzo Cline Douglass Papers
Open for research.
Alonzo Cline Douglass, a minister of the United Presbyterian Church of North America, graduated from Monmouth College in 1890 and from Xenia Seminary in 1893. His pastoral career was spent entirely in the Midwest and until his retirement in 1956 represented 53 years of continuous service.
Record Group 180 consists of Douglass' sermons, 1891-1945. They are arranged chronologically by the location of his pastorates. A few miscellaneous items are included at the end of the series of sermons.
SERIES 1: SERMONS, 1891-1945
SERIES 2: MISCELLANY, 1891-1940S
Most of the sermons deal with biblical interpretation, however, occasionally they are concerned with issues which may interest the researcher. Most of these were preached at Jetmore.
Subjects include:
Christian Education Temperance Reform
Church and Politics War and Peace
Foreign and Home Missions Women and Christianity
Morality and Legislation World War I
World Court and US participation in
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: 1984
Frederick J. Heuser, Jr, Archivist
Finding aid revised: July 1992
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid for RG 180 | |
| SERIES 1: SERMONS, 1890-1946 | |||
| 1 | 2 | Early sermons, 1891-1899, 1904, 1911 | |
| 1 | 3 | Des Moines sermons, 1898-1910 | |
| 1 | 4 | Omaha sermons, 1911-1916 | |
| 1 | 5 | Biggsville sermons, 1916-1918 | |
| 1 | 6 | Sterling sermons, 1922-1931 | |
| 1 | 7 | San Francisco sermons, 1932-1936 | |
| 1 | 8-41 | Jetmore sermons, 1936-1945 | |
| 2 | 1-14 | Jetmore sermons, 1936-1945 | |
| 3 | 1-6 | Jetmore sermons, 1936-1945 | |
| SERIES 2: MISCELLANY, 1891-1940S | |||
| 3 | 6 | Addresses, 1893-1935 | |
| 3 | 7 | Biographical information | |
| 3 | 8 | Miscellaneous items, 1930s | |
| 3 | 9 | Miscellaneous newspapers/clippings, 1890s-1940s |