Martha's Vineyard Museum
A Finding Aid to the Joseph Emerson Swallow Diaries, 1865-1885
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Descriptive Summary
| Repository | Martha's Vineyard Museum Gale Huntington Research Library 59 School Street P.O. Box 1310 Edgartown, MA 02539 (508) 627-4441 |
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| Call Number | RU 530 |
| Creator | Swallow, Joseph Emerson, 1817-1889 |
| Title | Joseph Emerson Swallow diaries |
| Date | 1865-1885 |
| Extent | 1 box (0.504 cubic feet) |
| Language | The materials are in English. |
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Use and Reproduction Restrictions
Requests to reproduce material from this collection should be directed to the library's staff. Reproduction fees may apply.
Preferred Citation
Martha's Vineyard Museum, RU 530, Joseph Emerson Swallow Diaries.
Acquisition Information
The immediate source of acquisition is unknown.
Publication Information
Martha's Vineyard Museum
Gale Huntington Research Library59 School Street
P.O. Box 1310
Edgartown, MA 02539
(508) 627-4441
Revision Description
Added container and date fields. [Clinton Johnson] 2015 July
Processing Information
Finding aid prepared and machine-encoded by Nathaniel Janick in June 2015.
Creation of this finding aid was sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Related Materials
Separated Material
Records indicate that the museum posesses the marriage certificate of Joseph Emerson Swallow and Caroline Baylies Marchant, but it could not be located at the time of processing.
Biography/Historical Note
Joseph Emerson Swallow was a Congregationalist minister. He was born on April 21, 1817, to Joseph and Betsey (Twiss) Swallow. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1843. He was a teacher from 1843 to 1845 before studying at Andover Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. He was ordained a pastor in Greenport, New York, on July 18, 1848. Following his ordainment, he served as a minister at the following locations:
- Wilmington, Massachusetts, 1851-1856
- First Church, Nantucket, Massachusetts, 1856-1858
- Stoneham, Massachusetts, 1858-1859
- Southampton, Massachusetts, 1859-1862
- Burlington Massachusetts, 1863-1866
- Groton, Connecticut, 1867-1870
- South Canaan, Connecticut, 1870-1873
- Alford, Massachusetts, 1877-1880
- Edgartown, Massachusetts, 1880-1883
- Somesville and Mount Desert Island, Maine, 1883-1887
- Windsor, Massachusetts, 1887-1889
His first marriage was to Maria Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Frances (Hastings) Gibson of Townshend, Massachusetts, in 1848. The marriage lasted until her death in 1848.
His second marriage was to Caroline Baylies Marchant, 1843-1925, daughter of Henry Hubbard and Mary Walker Marchant of Edgartown, Massachusetts, in 1882. He died in 1889, in Windsor, Massachusetts.
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of the diaries of Joseph Emerson Swallow. The diaries cover a wide range of his career as a minister, but exclude his time on Martha's Vineyard.
Arrangement
The materials are arranged chronologically.
Collection Inventory
| Box | Folder | |||
Diaries, 1865-1866 | 1 | 1 | ||
Diaries, 1868-1870 | 1 | 2 | ||
Diaries, 1871-1872 | 1 | 3 | ||
Diaries, 1873-1874 | 1 | 4 | ||
Diaries, 1875-1876 | 1 | 5 | ||
Diaries, 1877-1878 | 1 | 6 | ||
Diaries, 1883-1884 | 1 | 7 | ||
Diary, 1885 | 1 | 8 | ||