Keith Eugene Smith was a pastor with the Church of the Nazarene and a historian of the movement in Maine. The collection includes his files, notes and papers as a student at Nazarene Theological Seminary from 1948 to 1952, the third entering class, and also at Boston University. Of interest to historians of the denomination are the files he kept, in the preparation of his dissertation, on each church within the state of Maine, and on various important persons involved in the Church of the Nazarene, district of Maine. The title of his thesis, written for Boston University in 1964, is “History of the Church of the Nazarene in Maine, 1893-1920: the formative years.”

16 Boxes, 8 linear feet

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