Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to Use

Publishing rights to unpublished books and articles of Allen H. Godbey are retained by his daughter, Beulah Godbey Johnson.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Allen Howard Godbey Papers, #1599, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Recieved from Beulah Godbey Johnson, 1949-1958.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, August 2009

Updated by: Laura Hart, July 2021

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Central Methodist College (Fayette, Mo.)--History--20th century.
• Circuit riders--Missouri.
• Clergy--Missouri--Diaries.
• Clergy--Missouri--History.
• College teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Diaries.
• Duke University--Faculty--History--20th century.
• Godbey, Allen Howard, 1864-1948.
• Godbey, William Clinton.
• Methodism--Missouri--History--19th century.
• Methodist Church--Missouri--History.
• Missouri--Religion--19th century.
• Religion--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina--History--20th century.

Allen Howard Godbey (1864-1948) of Missouri, was a Methodist minister, Methodist historian, and teacher, writer, and scholar in the field of the Old Testament, Hebrew history, archeology, and Semitics. He was a professor at Duke University, 1926-1932. His father was William Clinton Godbey, a Methodist circuit preacher of Missouri.

The collection is chiefly general, family, and genealogical correspondence, mainly 1900-1948, and scholarly writings of Allen Howard Godbey. Scholarly writings are chiefly on theological, historical, and archeological topics. Volumes include writings, notebooks, scrapbooks; also financial records of Central Methodist College at Fayette, Mo., 1900-1909. Materials earlier than 1900 (seven volumes and a few papers of scattered dates) pertain to the Reverend William Clinton Godbey, other Methodist preachers, and Methodism in 19th-century Missouri, including a preacher's diary and record, 1871-1872, on the St. Louis circuit. There is also a group of photographs that appear to be related to Godbey's genealogical inquiries and include members of the Smith and Russell families and others.

• Photographs (PF-1599/1-2)
• Oversize volume (SV-1599/6)