Collections : [Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary]

This collection contains material related to Allen Wright (Kiliahote), a Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation (1866-1870) and the first Native American graduate of UTS (class of 1855), including biographical material, as well as correspondence about and programs for ceremonies honoring Wright at the Capitol in Oklahoma City and at UTS.

Ernest Findlay Scott was a UTS faculty member and New Testament scholar of the early twentieth century. The collection contains correspondence on both personal and theological subjects, as well as correspondence related to the donation of the collection to the Burke Library.

Henry Boynton Smith (1815-1877) was a Congregational Presbyterian minister, theologian, and Union Theological Seminary professor and librarian. The collection contains correspondence, clippings and scrapbooks, notebooks from his studies in Germany, notes for his courses as well as student notes, and sermons.

Henry Haverstick Ranck (1868-1948) was a graduate of the UTS class of 1893 and a Reformed Church minister. The collection contains letters sent by Ranck to his then fiancée, Mary H. Byrne (later Mary Byrne Ranck), while he was a student, as well as a photocopy of the Rank/Ranck family newsletter from 1986.

This collection contains sermons, correspondence, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and diaries of Paul Ehrman Scherer (1892-1969), Lutheran, UTS professor of homiletics, author, and an American preacher.

Philip Schaff (1819-1893) was a theologian, church historian, ecumenist, and Union Theological Seminary professor. Schaff was president of the American Bible Revision Committee, which he organized in 1871 at the request of the British Committee on Bible Revision. The collection contains correspondence, including from the American Bible Revision Committee and the British Committee on Bible Revision; notes and lectures; diaries; and scrapbooks and memorabilia, including a photograph album.

Walter Rauschenbusch was a leading scholar of the Social Concern Movement and the Church in America, and taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary. This collection consists of two letters written by Rauschenbusch to Dr. Thomas C. Hall, Professor at Union Theological Seminary, discussing courses and anti-German sentiment after World War I.