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ID: MSS/CoB V Francis
Extent: 0.0
Collection Historical Note
Jay Gotwahls Francis (1870-1958) was born to John and Mary Jane Francis in Oaks, Pennsylvania on January 13, 1870. He graduated from Ursinus College in 1891 with an A.B. degree. After, Francis spent a year at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, followed by 15 months at Mt. Morris Bible School. In 1895, Francis was licensed as a minister in the Green Tree congregation, achieving his second degree of ministry in 1899. In 1897, he earned his B.D. degree from the Ursinus School of Theology. He married Mary Ann Zug in 1900, with whom he had eight children. Francis was one of few ministers of the Church of the Brethren to receive a seminary education beyond college and was an advocate of higher education for all members of the church. In 1898, he organized a meeting of several Church of the Brethren elders to discuss establishing a Brethren college in Eastern Pennsylvania. Francis was part of the ten-person committee in charge of choosing a location for the school as well as developing a constitution. Although partial to establishing a school in Ephrata or Pottstown, the final location of the institution became Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and the school was called Elizabethtown College. Though Francis was part of the initial establishment of the school in 1899, soon after he broke from the committee in an attempt to create another Brethren college in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. This venture failed, and Francis would only return to Elizabethtown College twice in 1908 and 1950. In 1911, Francis served on a Historical Committee tasked with writing a District history for his region of the Church of the Brethren. Further, Francis was part of the purchasing committee for the Lebanon Church of Brethren building. Known for his interest in history, he was a member and organizer of the Lebanon County Historical Society, established in 1916. He also did genealogy work for the Daughters of the American Revolution. Francis was listed in the U.S. Census for 1910 as a painter, as for a period of time he was not closely affiliated with the church and held services in his own home rather than the church. However, in the 1920, 1930, and 1940 Census, he was listed as a minister or preacher. From 1933 until his death in 1958, Francis served in the ministry for the Lebanon Church of the Brethren. He is best known for his work in the establishment of Elizabethtown College, with a statue in his memory having been placed outside Alpha Hall on the College’s campus.
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- Box 7
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- Folder 1: Notes
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- Photograph 1: West End of Tunnel and Lock No. 1
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- Item 2: Misc Notes: "Development and Passing of the Union Canal by J.G. Francis; "George M. Lebanon"
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- Photograph 3: Picture (of West End Tunnel?)
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- Item 4: Coal Yard Pictures and Notes (Development and Passing of the Union Canal: biographies)
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- Item 5: Newspaper Article "Lebanon Park Increases Access to Tunnel"
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- Item 6: Union Canal: The Great Flood, June 4, 1862
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- Item 7: Newspaper Articles "Surviving Boatmen of Penna. Canal in Reunion"
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- Item 8: Cleaning of the Canal and Swinging Bridge, 1866-1878
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- Folder 2: Notes
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- Item 1: Pennsylvania Institutes
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- Item 2: The Lebanon Canal Feeder
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- Item 3: "...commenced their labors in Pennsylvania..."
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- Item 4: Water Works Aqueduct
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- Item 5: "...numerous writers give credit to Robert Faloin..."
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- Item 6: A Notable Position
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- Item 7: "Montgomery in his theory of Berks Country..."
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- Item 8: Programming
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- Item 9: "Have showed some words by way of Preface..."
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- Item 10: The Union Canal Pre-eminently a Lebanon County Affair
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- Item 11: Traffic
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- Item 12: Canal (Old and New)
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- Item 13: "The statement of Wilham M..."
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- Item 14: The Union Canal
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- Item 15: "...some other young lady..."
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- Item 16: A History of the Union Canal, established about 1834
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- Item 17: Rich
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- Item 18: H. Dale for the Leb. Co. Hist. Society
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- Item 19: Canal in Feb.
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- Item 20: Union Canal Project
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- Item 21: The Report of Engineer W.N. McBullongh, August 2, 1894
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- Item 22: The Brandt Family
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- Item 23: Misc Notes
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- Item 24: "Another prominent business man..."
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- Item 25: East from Lebanon
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- Item 26: Lock
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- Item 27: Stroll (Lay)
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- Item 28: Locks, Warehouses, and Bridges
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- Item 29: Stroll, Myerstown
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- Item 30: "Allen Bollinger moved in 1956..."
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- Item 31: Leekners
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- Item 32: Snyder
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- Item 33: Seltzer
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- Item 34: From Palmyra
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- Item 35: Store Houses
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- Item 36: The Basin Here
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- Item 37: West of the Tunnel
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- Item 38: Kreider
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- Item 39: Stroll
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- Folder 3: Notes
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- Item 1: A Stroll across the Sixteen Lock Section
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- Item 2: Stroll from Jonestown Road to Water Works, August 1941
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- Item 3: Galen
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- Item 4: John Adam
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- Item 5: Note on paper from Ursinus College
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- Item 6: Public Forum
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- Item 7: Canal Superintendents
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- Item 8: Bio: William Lebanon
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- Item 9: A Life of the... As Early Means of Transportation, Conceived by Penn
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- Item 10: Land Purchases
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- Item 11: Great Dawn
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- Item 12: Land on Canal in Lebanon
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- Item 13: The Weslian Locks
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- Item 14: Canal, July 30, 1845
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- Item 15: June 14, 1866
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- Item 16: January 2, 1868
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- Item 17: Relative to the Enlargement of the Union Canal
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- Item 18: Canal, January 19, 1866
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- Item 19: Retrenching
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- Item 20: Weber
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- Item 21: From Feb.
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- Item 22: Strolls along the Union Canal
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- Folder 4: Notes
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- Item 1: Postcard "Oldest Tunnel in the United States, Built 1822-1823, Lebanon, Pa."
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- Item 2: Letters from Philip G. Nordell, August- September 1953
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- Folder 5: Notes
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- Item 1: "2 Annville Teen Score in Dreamboat of a Dig" Sunday Patriot News
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- Item 2: Misc Notes
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- Item 3: Notebook: "The Old Canals"
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- Folder 6: Drawing Records- Location of Canal
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