Guide to the William C. Cattell Papers
Open for research.
Dr. Cattell was born in Salem, NJ on August 30, 1827. Following graduation from the College of New Jersey in 1848, he studied theology at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1849-1853. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Newton. From 1855-1860 he was professor of Greek and Latin at Lafayette College. He served the Pine Street Presbyterian Church of Harrisburg, PA as its pastor from 1860-1863, at which time he was elected president of Lafayette. He held the position for the next twenty years.
Dr. Cattell was secretary of the Board of Ministerial Relief of the PCUSA in 1884, and was president of the Presbyterian Historical Society from 1890 until his death in 1898. He received DD degrees from Hanover College and from the College of New Jersey, and an LLD degree from the College of Wooster.
RG 181 consists of Dr. Cattell's sermons, lectures and addresses and incoming correspondence.
SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE, 1855-1897, UNDATED
SERIES 2: SERMONS, 1860-1869, UNDATED
SERIES 3: LECTURES, ADDRESSES, NOTES, 1860-1881, UNDATED
Calendar and alphabetical card file indexes to portions of the collection are available at the society. Indexed items are noted in the Collection Inventory. Consult repository for details.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: 1984
Jane Ramsay
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| (Box 1: Calendared Items 1-419) | |||
| 1 | 1 | Finding aid to Record Group 181 | |
| SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE, 1855-1897, UNDATED | |||
| 1 | 2 | Outgoing Correspondence and papers, 1855-1868 | |
| 1 | 3 | Outgoing Correspondence and papers, 1858-1868 | |
| 1 | 4-21 | Incoming Correspondence, 1870-1875 | |
| (Box 2: Calendared Items 420-767) | |||
| 2 | 1-9 | Incoming Correspondence, 1876-1894 | |
| 2 | 10 | Outgoing Correspondence, undated | |
| 2 | 11 | Incoming Correspondence, undated | |
| 2 | 12 | Outgoing and Incoming Correspondence, 1882-1897 | |
| SERIES 2: SERMONS, 1860-1869, UNDATED | |||
| 2 | 13-15 | 1860-1861 | |
| (Box 3: Calendared Items 768-887) | |||
| 3 | 1-7 | 1861-1869 | |
| (Box 4: Calendared Items 888-993) | |||
| 4 | 1-3 | Sermons and Exegetical Notes, undated | |
| SERIES 3: LECTURES, ADDRESSES, NOTES, 1860-1881, UNDATED | |||
| 4 | 4-5 | Addresses, Lafayette College, 1865-1881 | |
| 4 | 6 | Funeral Orations, 1862 | |
| 4 | 7 | Theological Lecture Notes, 1875, 1879 | |
| (Box 5: Calendared Items 994-1019) | |||
| 5 | 1 | Lectures on Interchurch Polemics, undated | |
| 5 | 2 | Address and Lecture Notes, 1876 | |
| 5 | 3 | Lectures on Classical Greece, undated | |
| 5 | 4 | Historical Discourse on Cuba; Impressions of Jerusalem and Rugby, undated | |
| 5 | 5 | Sermons, 1860 |