John D. Nutting Papers

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Nutting, John Danforth, b. 1854
7 Boxes (5 linear feet)
1830-1947 (bulk:1878-1927)

Introduction
The John D. Nutting Collection contains the personal library of Rev. John D. Nutting of Cleveland, Ohio. Rev. Nutting was a pastor, missions official, and missionary to Mormons. This collection includes pro and contra-Mormon material from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Provenance: In June 1951, Mrs. John D. Nutting of Cleveland, Ohio presented to Wheaton College the library of her late husband, the Reverend John D. Nutting. Rev. Nutting was a missionary to the Mormons and a mission official for more than forty years.

Restrictions: The John D. Nutting Collection of Mormon literature, by terms of the gift, is open to inspection and use in the Special Collections only, and only to "properly identified persons." Duplication may be restricted if copying could cause damage to items.

Collection Description
The John D. Nutting Collection contains the personal library and papers of Rev. John D. Nutting of Cleveland, Ohio. Rev. Nutting was a pastor, missions official, and missionary to Mormons. This collection includes pro and contra-Mormon material, some dating from the nineteenth century.

The collection is organized into eleven series: Biographical, Correspondence, Manuscripts, Maps, Newspapers and Articles (1877-1919), Anti-Mormon Pamphlets, Periodicals, Utah Gospel Mission, Sarah H. Nutting Materials, Non-Mormon Materials and Collection-related Materials.

Biographical materials relate to Nuttings time at Wheaton College, from which he graduated in 1870. His mother, Ruth, was on faculty in Art at Wheaton.

Correspondence is between Nutting and Mrs. France Carothers Blanchard. Charles Blanchard was an instructor of Nutting, and later president of Wheaton College. The correspondence dates from 1882-1883.

Manuscript material includes essays, bible lessons and notes and poetry.

A large portion of the collection is devoted to published material from newsclippings and articles to periodicals and anti-Mormon pamphlets. These materials date from 1877-1947.

Nutting ran the Utah Gospel Mission and its press in Cleveland, Ohio.

Biographical/Historical Sketch
John Danforth Nutting was a 1878 graduate of Wheaton College and received an M.A. in 1881. He had a career as a preacher, lecturer, missionary, writer, editor, and publisher. He was born March 8, 1854 in Randolph Center, Vermont, the son of Rufus and Sarah Hubbard Nutting.

After attending Wheaton College Nutting attended Oberlin Theological Seminary and graduated in 1885. He was ordained as a Congregational minister that same year. Also in that year Nutting married Nannie Keith Miller in 1885. She died the following year while in childbirth.

He later pastored in Wauseon, Ohio (1886-?), Newport, Kentucky and Plymouth Church in Salt Lake City, Utah (1892-98). In 1900 he returned to Ohio and organized the Utah Gospel Mission in Cleveland, Ohio, serving as its secretary until his death in Cleveland, Ohio on October 4, 1949.

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