The papers in this collection document the church-related careers and activities of the Ninde family during the 1800s and early 1900s. Several members of the family became Methodist ministers and missionaries, the most notable of whom was William Xavier Ninde, elected a Methodist Episcopal Church bishop in 1884. The collection holds sermons, scrapbooks, diaries, correspondence, photographs, published and unpublished writings, and biographical information related to Bishop Ninde; his father and grandfather (William Ward Ninde and William Ninde, respectively); his brother (Henry S. Ninde); his children (Edward, George, Frederick, and Mary Ninde Gamewell); Mary Ninde Gamewell’s husband (Frank D. Gamewell) and his first wife, Mary Porter Gamewell. One highlight of the collection is Mary Ninde Gamewell's albums of photographs taken in China.
Extent: 20 boxes (15.75 linear feet) [Boxes 992A-1007].
Gift of Frederick DeLand Leete, 1956.
Collection MSA 18.