Guide to the Samuel Richmond Caffee Papers MSS.2114
Caffee, Samuel Richmond
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by Martha Bace
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
2008
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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English
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Samuel Richmond Caffee Papers
- Unit ID:
MSS.2114
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.4 Linear feet (15 items)
- Dates:
1858-1977
- Language of Materials note
English; Spanish (?)
- Abstract:
Diary (and photocopies) and other documents written by Samuel Richmond Caffee, physician and founding member of Avondale Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. There are also documents written by others about Dr. Caffee.
- creator
Caffee, Samuel Richmond , unknown
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of the diary (and photocopies) of Samuel Richmond Caffee, which was begun in an autobiographical style and later more in the style of a diary. The diary covers events from 1855 through 1884. The collection also contains Caffee's handwritten notes on the history of Avondale Baptist Church in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama and a resolution at his death from that church's Women's Missionary Union.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Martha Bace, 2008
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation
Samuel Richmond Caffee Papers, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Lawrence Smith, 1994
Biographical/Historical note
Samuel Richmond Caffee was born on August 19, 1855 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. The eleventh child of Samuel P. and Eliza V. Caffee, he was three years old when his father died of a slow fever in 1858. Caffee went on to study medicine at the Missouri Medical College and was licensed to practice in Alabama in 1881. He settled in the Avondale area of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama and was a founding member of the South Avondale Baptist Church in 1887. He died on November 12, 1921.
Source(s)
Avondale Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.) (lcsh)
Diary, 1858-1884 Box 2114.001 Folder 1
Diary, 1858-1884 (photocopy, 1 of 2) Box 2114.001 Folder 2
Diary, 1858-1884 (photocopy, 2 of 2) Box 2114.001 Folder 3
History of Avondale Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. S.R.Caffee, May 8, 1910 Box 2114.001 Folder 4
Resolutions, Avondale Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, 1921 Box 2114.001 Folder 5
Oath of Edward F. Story, New Haven County, North Carolina, September 20, 1865 Box 2114.001 Folder 5
Discharge of Edward F. Story from the Army of the Confederate States, Kinston, North Carolina, April 15, 1862 Box 2114.001 Folder 5
Application for the Membership to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Margaret Caffee Smith, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1930s Box 2114.001 Folder 5
1874 Letter to Cousin William (photocopy) Box 2114.001 Folder 6
Book entitled, "History of Springville, Alabama, 1969, the Sesquicentenial Anniversary," complied by Margaret Forman Windham, 1969 Box 2114.001 Folder 7
Book entitled, "South Avondale Baptist Church Birmingham, Alabama: Its Pastors, People and Program, 1887-1974," by James E. Davidson, 1977 Box 2114.001 Folder 7
Special Requisition, signed by Captain E. Mallett, Smithville, 1862 Box 2114.001 Folder 8
Special Requisition, signed by Captain E. Mallett, Charleston, South Carolina, April 3, 1863 Box 2114.001 Folder 8
Special Requisition, signed by Captain E. Mallett, James Island, South Carolina, April 28, 1863 Box 2114.001 Folder 8