UPPMss105.xml David G. LeSourd typescript of An Itinerant's Career University of Puget Sound, Archives & Special Collections
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-04-15. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. University of Puget Sound, Archives & Special Collections David G. LeSourd typescript of "An Itinerant's Career" MSS.105 0.2 linear feet one half sized document box 1917 This collection consists of one 347-page typescript copy of Rev. David G. LeSourd's autobiography, An Itinerant's Career. Rev. David G. Lesourd (1841-1925) was one of the first Superintendents of the Olympia District of the Puget Sound Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1888 he became one one of the original incorporators of Puget Sound University in Tacoma, Washington. English .

Rev. David G. LeSourd was born on October 4, 1841 near Rossville, Indiana. LeSourd moved to the Northwest in 1881 when he was assigned to the town of Olympia, Washington as a Rev. in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Eventually in 1884 he became one of the first Superintendents of the Olympia District of the Puget Sound Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1888, LeSourd also became one of the original incorporators of Puget Sound University in Tacoma, Washington. He was one of the six charter trustees who secured the university charter by Territorial enactment in April of 1888. Father LeSourd died on February 25, 1925, at home in Tacoma, 3401 North 8th Street.

This collection consists of one 347-page typescript copy of Rev. David G. LeSourd's autobiography, An Itinerant's Career. In 1917 LeSourd dictated the autobiography to his wife, Maggie LeSourd, who recorded the work in longhand. The longhand was later transcribed into type by Charlotte Riemer, secretary to the then University of Puget Sound President, Edward H. Todd. The longhand copy of the autobiography was lost after it was transcribed, the typescript version is the only remaining version.

The typescript was eventually reviewed and edited by Chuck Luce, and then published in 2010 by the University of Puget Sound as An Itinerant's Career: The memoir of the Rev. David G. LeSourd.

Collection is open for research.