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James Welch Brier sermons

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Description: This small group of material consists of handwritten sermons by Brier and notes for sermons. Some of the sermon titles are: "Churchism," "The Dispensation of the Spirit," "Divine Union," and "The Existance [sic] of God." Also included are sermons and notes regarding baptism, and church history. There is also one notebook of Brier's with religious notes. The majority of the collection is undated (the notebook is dated 1887). There is also one letter written by Reverend Brier to Reverend J. E. Dwinelle, of Sacramento; it is about Charles Eliot Norton, evolution and religion (letter is also undated). It is assume that all of this material was written after Brier came to California in 1850.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1887.
Call number: mssHM 79810-79823
Creator: Brier, James Welch (1814-1898)

Brier, James Welch. To The Jayhawkers. Rohnerville, Calif

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The collection contains letters, narratives, and eight large volumes of clippings related to the members of the Jayhawkers, their overland trip to the California gold fields through Death Valley, and their annual reunions held between 1872 to 1918. It also contains diaries by Asa Haines and Sheldon Young of the Jayhawkers' route and a map of Death Valley by William Lewis Manly, approximately 1889. The collection was assembled by John B. Colton (1831-1919), a member of the Jayhawker party. Participants in the collection include: John Wells Brier, Reverend James Brier, William Frederick Dody, Jessie Benton Fremont, John Groscup, Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, Charles Fletcher Lummis, William Lewis Manley, Charles B. Mecum, and Lorenzo Dow Stephens. The collection also includes items related to Mary Hunter Austin, Frederic Remington, and Theodore Roosevelt.

JA 74

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Haines, Asa. To Brier, James Welch & Brier, Juliet Wells. Knoxville, Ill

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JA 511

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Brier, James Welch. To Richards, Luther A. Lodi, Calif

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JA 73

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Brier, James Welch. To Richards, Luther A. Lodi, Calif

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JA 72

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Mecum, Charles Bert. To Brier, James Welch & Brier, Juliet Wells. Rippey, Iowa

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JA 666

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Brier family correspondence

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This group consists of letters from the Brier family to Grace Leadingham pertaining to her research for the article "Juliet Wells Brier : Heroine of Death Valley" (Pacific Historian, VII, November 1963). Julia (Juliet, Juliette) Wells Brier was the wife of the Reverend James Welch Brier, a Methodist minister involved with the Kansas Jayhawkers who traveled with his family from Galesburg, Illinois, through Death Valley to California in 1849. The majority of the letters are written by Hilda Brier, the daughter-in-law of James and Julia Brier's son. The main focus of the letters is on family anecdotes and physical descriptions of members of the Brier family, including James and Julia Brier and their children J.W. (John) Brier, Jr., Helen Brier, Mary Brier, and Alice Brier. Disparaging references are also made to William Lewis Manley's autobiography "Death Valley in '49," which detailed the Manley and Brier journey to California. Also included are letters from James and Julia Brier's granddaughters Alice L. Ulsh and Maude Lichtenstein. Some notes and lists of questions and answers probably written by Grace Leadingham are also included.

mssHM 72374-72400

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Brier, James Welch. To The Jayhawkers. Rohnerville, Calif

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