Guide to the C.S. Cleland Papers
Open for research.
Charles Samuel Cleland was born on December 17, 1863, in Owatonna, Minnesota. He graduated from Monmouth College in 1887 and later attended Xenia Seminary. He was ordained in 1890 and that year began to serve as pastor at LeClaire Prairie, Iowa; in 1893 he was moderator to the Iowa Synod. In 1894 he transferred to the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, where he would remain until 1935. In 1900 he was moderator to the New York Synod, and in 1932 he was General Assembly Moderator. In 1923-1924 he undertook a journey to mission fields in the Sudan, Egypt, Abyssinia, and India for the Board of Foreign Missions (UPCNA). He died September 22, 1944.
This collection consists of a journal kept by Cleland during his trip to the Eastern mission fields in the 1920s.
SERIES I: JOURNAL, 1923-1924
For Cleland's published writings on his journey to the East, see:
NE6 P92cra
NH9 C589f
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: August 1990
Stephanie Muntone, Processing Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 274 | |
| SERIES I: JOURNAL, 1923-1924 | |||
| 1 | 2 | Journal, 1923-1924 [fragile, handle with care] |