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			<titleproper encodinganalog="title">Guide to the Oliver P. Brewer Papers
				<date encodinganalog="date" calendar="gregorian" era="ce" normal="1849/1915">1849-1915</date></titleproper>
		  
			<titleproper type="filing" altrender="nodisplay">Brewer (Oliver P.) Papers</titleproper>
		  
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			<publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
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			<date calendar="gregorian" encodinganalog="date" normal="2026">© 2026</date> 
		 
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		<creation>Finding aid encoded by Suzanne James-Bacon.
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			<corpname encodinganalog="852$a">Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections</corpname>
		  
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		<unitid encodinganalog="099" countrycode="us" repositorycode="waps" type="collection">Cage 388</unitid>
		
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			<persname encodinganalog="100" role="creator" rules="rda">Brewer, Oliver P.</persname> </origination> 
	 	<unittitle encodinganalog="245$a">Oliver P. Brewer Papers</unittitle>
		
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			<abstract encodinganalog="5203_">This collection consists of personal and professional
				papers of Oliver P. Brewer, a minister of the Oakville (Washington) Methodist
				Episcopal Church in the 1880s.</abstract> 
		<langmaterial>Collection materials are in <language encodinganalog="546" langcode="eng">English</language></langmaterial>
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  		<p>Oliver P. Brewer was a minister of the Oakville Methodist Episcopal Church in Oakville, Washington, circa 1880s.</p>		
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			<p>This collection consists of photocopies of papers of Oliver P. Brewer from 1849-1915,
				approximately 275 pages total. Included in the collection is correspondence of John
				A. Stevens, Margaret Cunningham Stevens Brewer, Dexter Newton, and Curtis Newton,
				1855-1896; certificates of Dwight Newton, Ohio, circa 1850; minutes and other
				records of the Oakville Methodist Episcopal Church, 1889; diary of Dexter Newton,
				1849-1851; and miscellaneous bills, receipts, broadsides, and affadavits.</p> 
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	 	<p>This collection is open and available for research use.</p>
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	 	<p>Copyright restrictions may apply.</p>
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	 	<p>[Item description] </p>
	 	<p>Oliver P. Brewer Papers, 1849-1915 (Cage 388) </p>
	 	<p>Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.</p> 
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	 	<p>This collection was donated to the Washington State University Libraries by Mr. and Mrs. Larry Thonney.</p>
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			<persname encodinganalog="600" role="subject" source="lcsh" rules="rda">Brewer, Oliver P. -- Archives</persname>
			<persname role="subject" encodinganalog="600" rules="rda">Brewer, Margaret Cunningham Stevens</persname>
			<persname role="subject" encodinganalog="600" rules="rda">Newton, Dexter</persname>
			<persname role="subject" encodinganalog="600" rules="rda">Newton, Dwight, -1868</persname>
			<persname role="subject" encodinganalog="600" rules="rda">Stevens, John A.</persname>
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			<corpname role="subject" encodinganalog="610" rules="rda">Oakville Methodist Episcopal Church (Oakville, Wash.)</corpname>		  
			<corpname role="subject" encodinganalog="610" rules="rda">Methodist Episcopal Church -- Washington (State) -- Clergy -- Archives</corpname>		  
			<corpname role="creator" encodinganalog="710" rules="rda">Oakville Methodist Episcopal Church (Oakville, Wash.)</corpname>		  
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		  <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay" encodinganalog="690">Washington (State)</subject>
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