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Ichabod Codding Papers

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Call Number:
RG5.028
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Ichabod Codding Papers, RG5/028, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1830-1866 (inclusive)
Creator:
Codding, Ichabod, 1810-1866, Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873, Gillette, Francis, 1807-1879, Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874, Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, and Republican Party (Ill.)
Abstract:
Ichabod Codding, a Congregational minister, was active in the anti-slavery movement. He was born in New York, and attended Middlebury College. He moved to the Midwest in 1842, and was involved in politics in Illinois. The collection contains biographical materials, manuscript sermons, speeches, and notes, correspondence received (1830-1866), publications, and reference materials of Ichabod Codding. Includes information on abolition, John Brown, Owen Lovejoy, Abraham Lincoln, and Republican politics in Illinois in the mid 19th century.

Ichabod Codding (1810-1866), a Congregational minister, was active in the anti-slavery movement. He was born in New York, and attended Middlebury College. He moved to the Midwest in 1842 and was involved in politics in Illinois.

The collection contains biographical materials, manuscript sermons, speeches, and notes, correspondence received (1830-1866), publications, and reference materials of Ichabod Codding. Includes information on abolition, John Brown, Owen Lovejoy, Abraham Lincoln, and Republican politics in Illinois in the mid 19th century. Of particular interest is Codding's correspondence which includes letters from Owen Lovejoy, Salmon P. Chase, Francis Gillette, Charles Sumner, and William Cullen Bryant. There are also letters from R.G. Wells and A. Mahon on Williams College and Oberlin in 1835.

This collection is divided into six series:

  1. Biographical material
  2. Manuscripts
  3. Printed material by Ichabod Codding
  4. Printed material about Ichabod Codding's writings
  5. Correspondence
  6. Reference Material

For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Donor: Mary Preston Codding Bourland

Date: 1939

Papers sorted and filed in document boxes and placed in Record Group 5

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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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Finding Aid Date
1970
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Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Life sketches, obituaries, and memorials, 7-5-1866.

Archival Resource Key. Concerning war against slavery, Baraboo, 5-12-1844.
Archival Resource Key. John 5:30, "I can of mine own self do nothing...", 10-9-1847.
Archival Resource Key. Prov. 22:6, "Train up a child...," Joliet, 12-6-1850.
Archival Resource Key. Human Nature, Joliet, 12-11-1850.
Archival Resource Key. Remarks on the 7th of Romans and kindred Scriptures, Lockport, 11-8-1851.
Archival Resource Key. Eph. 6:4, "And ye fathers, provoke not your children,"Lockport, 1-9-1852.
Archival Resource Key. 2 Timothy 1:1O, "Immortality," Lockport, 2-14-1852.
Archival Resource Key. Matt. 6:10, "Thy Kingdom Come," Lockport, 2-19-1853.
Archival Resource Key. Matt. 25:31-46, parable of the judgment, Joliet, 4-?-1853.
Archival Resource Key. On Slavery, Ft. Des Moines, 7-1-1856.
Archival Resource Key. "Address before Young Men's Fremont Club," Ft. Des Moines, 9-6-1856.
Archival Resource Key. "Test of Discipleship," Iowa City, 1857.
Archival Resource Key. "Fruits of the False Prophet," Iowa City and Princeton, 3-27-185.
Archival Resource Key. "The Inadequacy of Human Language to Express a Dogmatic Theology," Pleasant View, 5-19-1857.
Archival Resource Key. "Fourth of July Discourse," Bluff Cabin, Lockport, 6-2-1858.
Archival Resource Key. "Abstract of Taney's Report," Iowa City, 4-20-1859.
Archival Resource Key. "The Law of Compensation," Iowa City and Baraboo, 2-16-1859.
Archival Resource Key. "Brief Notice of the Popular View of Eternal Punishment," Earlville, 1-24-1860.
Archival Resource Key. "Speech before the Young Men's Literary Association of Lockport," Lockport, 12-25-1860.
Archival Resource Key. "Honor All Men," Baraboo, 11-22-1861.
Archival Resource Key. "Christian Baptism," Baraboo, 3-28-1862.
Archival Resource Key. "Immortality," Baraboo, 5-23-1862.
Archival Resource Key. "self-reliance is Reliance on God," Baraboo, 7-4-1862.
Archival Resource Key. "Remarks on Prayer," Fond du Lac, 9-15-1862.
Archival Resource Key. "Lord, how is it?..," Fond du ac, 11-17-1862.
Archival Resource Key. "Man Grows into the Likeness of the God He Worships," Baraboo, 12-6-1862.
Archival Resource Key. Rev. 19:6, "The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth...," repeated at Lockport, 6-22-1865, Fond du Lac, 12-22-1862.
Archival Resource Key. "Christianity, Reason, and Science Against the Orthodox assumptions in behalf of the Bible, and Its interpretations of the Same, or Principles against Notions," Baraboo, 2-14-1863.
Archival Resource Key. Luke 23:34, "Father forgive them," Baraboo, 2-21-1863.
Archival Resource Key. "Law of Retribution, Repentance, and Forgiveness Note: discourse given on the day of national fast, 4-30-1863," Baraboo, 4-28-1863.
Archival Resource Key. "Success, Its False and True Meaning," Baraboo, 10-3-1863.
Archival Resource Key. Acts 17:31, regarding day of judgment, Baraboo, 10-27-1863.
Archival Resource Key. Regarding popular theology, Baraboo, 12-25-1863.
Archival Resource Key. "The Sin Against the Holy Ghost,", 1-16-1864.
Archival Resource Key. Matt. 11:28, "Come unto me...," Baraboo, 2-5-1864.
Archival Resource Key. Luke 23:34, "Father forgive them...,", 2-6-1864.
Archival Resource Key. "Inspiration," Baraboo, 2-26-1864.
Archival Resource Key. "Some Remarks on the Life and Character of Owen Lovejoy.", 1864 Spring.
Archival Resource Key. Matt. 22:40, "On these two commandments...,"Baraboo, 12-22-1864.
Archival Resource Key. New Year Sermon, Baraboo, 1-1-1865.
Archival Resource Key. "History of the Popular Doctrine of Future Punishment," Baraboo, 1-31-1865.
Archival Resource Key. "Natural Revelation," Bloomington, 9-10-1865.
Archival Resource Key. b. Mss. arranged alphabetically by subject.
Archival Resource Key. c. Misc. mss. (incomplete).

Archival Resource Key. An Address Delivered Before A Mass Convention of Abolitionists, at Southport, 1/27/1847. Published by direction of the Executive Com. of the Wisconsin Liberty Assoc., Waukesha. Printed at office of The American Freeman, 1848., 1847.
Archival Resource Key. Codding's Reply to Douglas,...at Joliet and Geneva, on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, and Slavery Extension. Reported at the time for the Free West., 1854.
Archival Resource Key. The Freeman's Manual; A Campaign Document For the People, and Especially Adapted to the Use of Republican Debaters and Orators. By Ichabod Codding. Printed by Wright, Medill, Day and Co., Tribune Office, 1856., 1856.
Archival Resource Key. "Jefferon Against the Pierce and Douglas Democracy," to the editor of Monmouths Atlas, 4-7-1856., 1856.
Archival Resource Key. A Republican Manual for the Campaign...By I. Codding. Printed at Princeton, Ill., at the "Republican" Book and Job Printing Office, 1860., 1860.
Archival Resource Key. Fourth of July Speech, printed in Baraboo Republic, Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisc., 7-21-63., 1863.
Archival Resource Key. Lovejoy Monument Meeting. Speech by I. Codding eulogizing Owen Lovejoy, printed in Bureau County Republican, Princeton, Ill., 6-9-1864., 1864.
Archival Resource Key. "The Anti-Slavery Cause", No.1. Article printed in Tribune., n.d.
Archival Resource Key. "Statistical Specimens of Free and Slave States". (leaflet), n.d.

Archival Resource Key. a. Newspaper clippings,, 1854-1864 & n.d.
Archival Resource Key. 1. Announcing "Codding's Lectures on The Slavery Question.", n.d.
Archival Resource Key. 2. Announcing "Codding's Discourses on Liberal Christianity.", n.d.

Archival Resource Key. Letters received,, 1830-1866.
Archival Resource Key. Scrapbook of letters received while at Middlebury College, Vt., and at Canandaigua, N.Y., from college friends, and relatives,, 1830-1835.

Archival Resource Key. Printed pamphlet,, 3-28-1864.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. 1. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings reporting the last great Anti-Slavery Reunion, taken from Chicago, Ill. papers, ca. 1874.
Archival Resource Key. 2. Scrapbook of clippings from anti-slavery newspapers, and others,, 1834-1840.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. 3. Scrapbook of clippings from anti-slavery newspapers,, 1839-1842.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Folder of newspaper clippings,, 1859.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. "Some Account of Mrs. Beecher Stowe, and her Family,", 1852.
Archival Resource Key. "Horace Greeley's speech on the dignity of Labor. N.Y. Daily Tribune,, 5-5-1854.
Archival Resource Key. "Inauguration of the Republican Party in Middle Illinois", by I. Codding in Quincy ,, 7-30-1855.
Archival Resource Key. List of members of new Congress,, 1859.
Archival Resource Key. "R.W. Emerson in Parker's Pulpit", Principia,, 12-31-1859.
Archival Resource Key. Sermon by Henry Ward Beecher, preached at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, printed 12-25-1862,, 12-7-1862.
Archival Resource Key. Account of an interview with Lincoln, description of him, and excerpts from his conversation,, n.d.
Archival Resource Key. "Mr. Calhoun's opinion of the Missouri Compromise...,", n.d.
Archival Resource Key. "First Lecture on English Poetry, by James Russell Lowell,", n.d.
Archival Resource Key. "Mr. Greeley's Lecture on Woman,", n.d.
Archival Resource Key. "McClellan's Career Summed Up,", n.d.
Archival Resource Key. "The Nebraska Bill - Important Features,", n.d.
Archival Resource Key. "Mr. Seward's speech in the Final Debate on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill,", n.d.
Archival Resource Key. "Sketch of General Sherman,", n.d.
Archival Resource Key. "Slavery described by an eye-witness,", n.d.
Archival Resource Key. "The Southern Press on Nebraska,", n.d.
Archival Resource Key. The President's message, unsigned draft of veto, transmitted by Lincoln to Congress, regarding bill to suppress insurrection, etc.,, n.d.
Archival Resource Key. Baraboo Republic,, 7-22-1863.
Archival Resource Key. Chicago Tribune,, 10-3-1864.
Archival Resource Key. Daily Life,, 2-13-, 9-3-, 9-10-, 10-1-, 10-8-1864.
Archival Resource Key. The Evening Post,, 12-13-1860, 5-23-1861, 3-4-1863, 9-7-1864.
Archival Resource Key. The Free West,, 10-5-, 11-2-1854.
Archival Resource Key. Hartford Evening Press,, 12-29-1860.
Archival Resource Key. The National Era,, 8-17-1848.
Archival Resource Key. National Anti-Slavery Standard,, 7-28-1866.
Archival Resource Key. The New Covenant,, 5-15-1858.
Archival Resource Key. New York Weekly Tribune,, 1-14-1843.
Archival Resource Key. The Principia,, 10-12-1861.

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