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Bisbee, Marvin Davis, 1845-1913

 

Dates

  • Existence: 1845 - 1913

Biography

Marvin Davis Bisbee was born in Chester, Vermont, on June 21, 1845. After early schooling in Springfield, Vermont, and at Kimball Union Academy, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1871. He later studied theology at the Andover Theological Seminary and at Chicago Theological Seminary. From 1874 to 1881 he preached, first in the Congregational church at Pennacook, N.H., and then in the Chapel church at Cambridgeport, Mass. He became editor of The Congregationalist in 1881, and remained in that position for five years, resigning to become Librarian of Dartmouth College, where he also served as Professor of Divinity (1887-1893) and Professor of Bibliography (1893-1910). He made frequent contributions of prose and verse to reviews, magazines, and newspapers. He edited a volume of verse entitled "Songs of the Pilgrims"; and also a "Bibliography of Dartmouth College and Hanover" (1894). In 1910, Bisbee became director of the library of the Chicago Theological Seminary. He died on August 28, 1913.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

E.D. Redington letter

 Item 1
Identifier: Mss 899452
Mss 899452
Date(s): 1899-08-02
Scope and Contents

One-page letter from E.D. Redington in Chicago to Marvin D. Bisbee. Redington asks for a list of colleges that existed when the Civil War began; inquires about the cost of publishing the "Roll of Honor"; and expresses pleasure at the size of the incoming class.

Elizabeth Porter Gould letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS-1454
MS-1454
Date(s): 1892 to 1906
Content Description The collection contains a miscellaneous group of 8 letters to Elizabeth Porter Gould related to her article "Daniel Webster's Life in Portsmouth", Walt Whitman's reading at Dartmouth College and the College's acquisition of her work. The letters were laid into what was Gould's copy of the Dartmouth Literary Monthly (Webster Memorials 139). Also included is correspondence with William Jewett Tucker and Dartmouth librarian M.D. Bisbee regarding an article on Walt Whitman's delivery of a poem...

Mary S. Tudor. M.D to Marvin Davis Bisbee

 Folder: 899566, Box 6
Part of McClure MS-1311: David McClure papers
Date(s): 1899-10-16
Scope and Contents

Two-page letter from Mary S. Tudor in South Windsor, Connecticut to Marvin Davis Bisbee, stating her willingness to deposit the manuscript "Diary of David McClure" in the Dartmouth College Library, subject to recall by the family.

Found in: David McClure papers Mss Nos. 817419-900630

William DeWitt Hyde letter

 Item 1
Identifier: Mss 905309
Mss 905309
Date(s): 1905-05-09
Scope and Contents

One-page letter from William DeWitt Hyde at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine to Marvin D. Bisbee in Hanover. Hyde asks Bisbee how many people work at Dartmouth's library and how much they are paid, as the question of library spending has arisen at Bowdoin.

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