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Full listing > Accession MC2004/689| Accession # | MC2004/689 | | Topic | Dolby, Mattie Cunningham: Minister, Church of the Brethren, | | Keywords | Alumna, Multicultural, Diversity, African-American, | | Title | Mattie Cunningham Dolby Alumni Card | | Location | Flat File Drawer B | | Citation | Mattie Cunningham Dolby Alumni Card, MC2004/689, Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana. | | Access | Researchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials. | | Provenance | Unknown. | | Scope and Content | 1. One 1901 & 1903 alumni card with indicating Mattie had taken the courses, Bible 2 & 3. She is listed as Dolby, Mattie (Cunningham) (widow) Address: Arcadia, Ind. R I Children: 6 children. Handwritten: deceased - Minister in Ch. of God. Urbana, O. (is colored). | | Date of Accession | Unknown | | Bio History Note | Mattie Cunningham Dolby (1878 - 1956).
Mattie's parents were both German Baptist Brethren and she was baptized when sixteen. Mattie graduated from high school in 1899 and spent 1900 - 1903 in the Bible Department at Manchester College. She and her brother, Joe Cunningham, were the first African American students to attend Manchester College.
In 1907 she married Newton Dolby and that same year she and Newton Dolby were installed as deacons in the Frankfort congregation. On Dec. 30, 1911, Mattie Dolby was installed into the ministry in the Church of the Brethren. She was one of the first, if not the first, Brethren women to be installed in the ministry.
For more information see the Brethren Encyclopedia. | | Archivist Note | The object received an accession number in 2004 but an accession page was not created.
Description prepared 14 July 2007 by Jeanine M. Wine and last updated 08 August 2007 by Jeanine M. Wine. |
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