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Collection Overview
Title: Roelof Times Kuiper Collection, 1845-2000
ID: COLL/158
Primary Creator: Roelof Times Kuiper (1826-1894)
Extent: 3.0 Boxes
Arrangement: Folder level description
Abstract
Minister of the Christian Reformed Church, author, and poet. The collection includes biographical information, correspondence, sermons, documents, class notes, journals, poems, articles, personal synodical information, personal book catalogue, and a paper advocating Indian/Native American missions.
Biographical Note
Roelof Times Kuiper was born on May 2, 1826 in Diever, Drenthe, Netherlands. He studied under Wolter Alberts Kok of Hoogeveen. Kuiper was ordained on 11 November 1850. Kuiper served the congregations of Dalfsen and Wildervank in the Netherlands.
In 1879, Kuiper immigrated to the United States to serve the congregation of Graafschap, Michigan. While in America, Kuiper was an advocate of home missions and Christian education. Kuiper had been elected president of the Christian Reformed Synod in 1880. By 1889, Rev. Kuiper went on to serve First South Holland in Illinois until his death on 31 December 1894.
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- Folder 1: Poetry --- 1845
- Folder 2: Poetry Book --- 1846-1879
- (some poems copied by daughter, Bertha Vander Laan, 1927; also some written by W. M. Vander Laan)
- Folder 3: Poetry – photocopy of “Poetry Book”
- Folder 4: Poetry by R. T. Kuiper (“Old Year’s Bells,” “Shipwrecked- an Allegory,” “New Years: 1862,” and “Series of Best Wishes”)
- Folder 5: Poetry for the Christian Choral Society of Wildervank --- 1874
- Folder 6: Poetry --- [undated]
- Folder 7: Poetry to R. T. Kuiper’s three daughters --- undated
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