Elementos de identidad
Código de referencia
Nombre y localización del repositorio
Nivel de descripción
Título
Fecha(s)
- 1933-1942 (Creación)
Extensión
0.18 cubic feet
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
William Coleman Bitting (1887-1954) was the son of the Rev. William Coleman Bitting, a Baptist minister, and Anna Mary Biedler. He was an investment broker who specialized in church bonds and was head of the Bitting and Company brokerage firm. He was involved in the 1934 controversy of defaulted bonds by the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Southern California Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Many of the published articles and letters he wrote were distinctly anti-Methodist and strongly against the spending of investors' money on foreign missions. In other Methodist financial matters, Bitting and Company sued White Cross Hospital Association of the Ohio Conference and the St. Louis Methodist Episcopal Annual Conference in 1934.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
The collection contains newspaper clippings, correspondences, and reports which primarily document the 1934 defaulted bonds controversy. The material is extremely anti-Methodist.
Sistema de arreglo
This collection is arranged by record type and then chronologically within the folders.
Condiciones de acceso y uso de los elementos
Condiciones de acceso
There are no restrictions regarding this collection.
Acceso físico
Acceso técnico
Condiciones
Detailed use restrictions relating to our collections can be requested from the office of the archivist at the General Commission on Archives and History. Photocopying is handled by the staff and may be limited in certain instances. Before using any material for publication from this collection a formal request for permission to publish is expected and required.
Idiomas del material
- inglés
Escritura(s) de los documentos
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Instrumentos de descripción
Elementos de adquisición y valoración
Historial de custodia
Origen del ingreso
Valoración, selección y eliminación
Acumulaciones
Elementos de material relacionado
Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Unidades de descripción relacionadas.
Descripciones relacionadas
Elemento notas
Nota general
The purpose of this finding aid is to help you understand the nature of this collection and to assist you in the retrieval of material from this collection. The following pages contain a brief biographical history of the person, or persons, who created or collected these papers, followed by a general description of the collection in the scope and content note. If more detailed information is warranted then series descriptions also appear. The container listing appears last and is the listing of material in each box, or container, of this collection. To request material you need to turn to the container listing section. It is essentially a listing of file folders, or artifact items, in the collection. Each folder, or item, has a call number associated with it. Each folder also lists the inclusive dates of the material in the folder. On the material request form list both the call number and the folder, or item, title. Use a different line for each folder, or item, requested. When your request sheet is complete, or full, bring it to the archivist and the material will be retrieved.
Nota general
When citing material from this collection please use the following format: Direct reference to the item or its file folder, William Coleman Bitting, Jr. Collection, United Methodist Church Archives - GCAH, Madison, New Jersey. Do not make use of the item's call number as that is not a stable descriptor.
Notas especializadas
Identificador/es alternativo(os)
Área de control de la descripción
Reglas o convenciones
Fuentes
Nota del archivista
Prepared by Sofia Novozilova, Student Assistant and Mark C. Shenise, Associate Archivist