Guide to the Martin D. Hardin Papers,

Collection Number: 329l

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Compiled by:
M. Morrison
Date completed:
April 1978
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, January 2004

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Martin D. Hardin papers, 1881-1963, 1881-1946 (bulk).
Collection Number:
329l
Creator:
Martin D. Hardin, 1873-1935.
Quantity:
5 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Manuscript sermons, correspondence, a scrapbook, a manuscript, printed materials, and other items.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Papers of Martin D. Hardin, a Presbyterian clergyman, lecturer, and portrait artist. He seved as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca, New York, 1920-1935.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Martin D. Hardin was a Presbyterian clergyman, lecturer, and portrait artist. He seved as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca, New York, 1920-1935.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Papers consist primarily of manuscript sermons (1908-1935) by Hardin, including one preached at a memorial service (1914) for his father-in-law, U.S. Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson. Also included is correspondence concerning his reasons for entering the ministry (1894), a call to the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, N.C. (1903), his opinion concerning the views of William Jennings Bryan on evolution (1922), and life aboard the ocean liner Espagne during a voyage to Europe, where he was a lecturer for the American Red Cross (1918); correspondents include his father, Parker Watkins Hardin, his wife, Julia Stevenson Hardin, Joseph Quincy Adams, William C. Covert, Anna Camp Edwards, William T. Ellis, Parker C. Hardin, Arthur S. Hoyt, Duncan Campbell Lee, John B. Ross, Hoy W. Smith, Louis P. Smith, and John W. Stagg. Additional items include a scrapbook containing photographs of his portraits of Hugh A. Moran, Adlai E. Stevenson, Mynderse Van Cleef, Woodrow Wilson, and Roger B. Williams, an unpublished typescript (carbon) of "A Kentucky Hardin in the Ministry" written by Richard Henry Edwards, notes for an address broadcast from Glasgow, printed copies of sermons, and pamphlets.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Hardin, Martin D., 1873-1935.
Adams, Joseph Quincy, 1881-1946.
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925.
Covert, William C.
Edwards, Anna Camp, 1876-1956.
Edwards, Richard Henry, 1877-1954.
Ellis, William T.
Hardin, Julia Stevenson.
Hardin, Parker C.
Hardin, Parker Watkins.
Hoyt, Arthur S.
Lee, Duncan Campbell.
Moran, Hugh A.
Ross, John B.
Smith, Hoy W.
Smith, Louis P.
Stagg, John W.
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965.
Van Cleef, Mynderse.
Williams, Roger B.
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
Espagne (ship)
Red Cross.United States.American National Red Cross.
Second Presbyterian Church (Charlotte, N.C.).

Subjects:
Clergy.

Form and Genre Terms:
Sermons.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Martin D. Hardin papers, #329l. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Correspondence
May 4, 1894
Martin to his father explaining why he is entering the ministry (photocopy)
 Box 1 Folder 1
Aug. 1897
Julia Stevenson Hardin to her parents
 Box 1 Folder 1
Aug. 13, 1897
Martin to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Adlai E. Stevenson
 Box 1 Folder 1
Aug. 26, 1897
Julia Hardin and Martin to her parents
 Box 1 Folder 1
July 2, 1903
Julia Hardin to Martin
 Box 1 Folder 1
July 22, 1903
John B. Ross, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Pastorate of the Second Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, N.C., informing Martin of his call to their pastorate
Box 1 Folder 1
July 22, 1903
John W. Stagg, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama, urging Martin to accept the call to Charlotte
 Box 1 Folder 1
ca. 1908
Martin to Julia
 Box 1 Folder 1
Jan. 1918
Martin to Julia
 Box 1 Folder 1
Feb. 23, 1918
Martin to Julia
 Box 1 Folder 1
Mar. 17, 1918
Martin to Julia
 Box 1 Folder 1
ca. 1916-1918, Jan. 18
Martin to daughter Laetitia at Vassar
 Box 1 Folder 1
Mar. 10, 1920
Martin to Julia
 Box 1 Folder 1
Mar. 1920
Martin to Julia
 Box 1 Folder 1
Mar. 16, 1922
Martin to William Jennings Bryan opposing Bryan's articles in evolution
 Box 1 Folder 1
Apr. 27, 1922
Arthur S. Hoyt re: Bryan
 Box 1 Folder 1
May 3, 1922
William Thomas Ellis re: Martin's address, "Mr. Bryan and Evolution"
 Box 1 Folder 1
Oct. 27, 1927
LPS (Louis P. Smith) to Julius Steele, Kenwood Church, Chicago, recommending Martin as Churchman, Rotarian, and American (photostat of a carbon)
Box 1 Folder 1
Jan. 31, 1930
Martin to daughter "Blessed Girlie"
 Box 1 Folder 1
Oct. 4, 1930
Martin to daughter Julia at Emma Willard School
 Box 1 Folder 1
Nov. 5, 1930
Martin to daughter Julia
 Box 1 Folder 1
May 17, 1931
Martin to daughter Julia
 Box 1 Folder 1
Aug. 3, 1931
Hoy Watson Smith, Second Presbyterian Church, Little Rock, Ark. re: a letter written in 1903 by Dr. Walter W. Moore to Dr. Alexander McKelway
Box 1 Folder 1
ca. 1932
Martin to wife Julia
 Box 1 Folder 1
Nov. 13, 1935
Joseph Quincy Adams, The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
 Box 1 Folder 1
Dec. 15, 1935
Anna P. Edwards to Julia
 Box 1 Folder 1
Dec. 16, 1935
John Timothy Stone to Julia
 Box 1 Folder 1
Jan. 2, 1936
Duncan Campbell Lee to Julia
 Box 1 Folder 1
ca. 1938, Apr. 18
Parker Calhoun Hardin to his mother, Julia
 Box 1 Folder 1
n.d.
Martin to Adlai E. Stevenson about his (Martin's) visit to Charlotte and of speakers for the Sunday Evening Club
 Box 1 Folder 1
Apr. 19, 1963
Frank Graham, United Nations, to Judy Hardin Baumgarten re: biographical material of her father (photocopy)
 Box 1 Folder 1
Miscellaneous
Jan. 1881
Small notebook of sketches, (pencil, pen-and-ink, and watercolor) by Martin, age 7 1/2
 Box 1 Folder 2
ca. 1918
Carbon typescript, two pages 18 and 26; speech or sermon re: World War I in Europe - possibly lecture for Red Cross
 Box 1 Folder 2
1927
Notes for broadcast address from Glasgow on Sunday, May 22, 1927, by Martin; subject, The Modern Man's Neighbor (typescript)
 Box 1 Folder 2
1927
Passport; includes photograph of Martin and Julia
 Box 1 Folder 2
1936
Prayer on Memorial Day, in memory of Martin (carbon typescript)
 Box 1 Folder 2
Jan. 3, 1933
Newsclipping from Ithaca Journal; illustration and short article about portrait of Roger B. Williams, painted by Martin
 Box 1 Folder 2
Nov. 24, 1946
Carbon typescript of "Mr. Bryan, Martin Hardin and the Moderatorship of the Presbyterian General Assembly," signed by Hugh Moran, Palo Alto, Cal.
Box 1 Folder 2
Scrapbook of photographs of paintings mostly made from photographs by Martin; includes Woodrow Wilson, Vice President Adlai Ewing Stevenson, Mrs. Richard Edwards, Roger B. Williams, Hugh A. Moran, Mynderse Van Cleef
Box 1 Folder 2
ca. 1945
Mss. volume: "A Kentucky Hardin in the Ministry" by Richard Henry Edwards; this is a carbon typescript of unpublished manuscript written "to perpetuate the memory..." of Martin
Box 1 Folder 2
Manuscript sermons
1908-1912
Box 2
1913-1914
Box 3
1915-1920
Box 4
1920-1922
Box 5
1922-1923
Box 6
1924-1925
Box 7
1926-1927
Box 8
1928-1929
Box 9
1930-1931
Box 10
1932-1935 , and printed material: sermonds, church publications, 1908-1927, 1940
Box 11
undated
Box 12-24