Special Collections & Archives

F. Calvin Parker and his wife Harriet Hale Parker served as missionaries in Japan 1951-1989 under the auspices of the Southern Baptist Convention Foreign Mission Board. This collection includes materials from F. Calvin Parker's life, predominantly from his time as a Baptist missionary in Japan. Materials include notes, writings, manuscripts, awards, speeches, book reviews, and other items.

This collection documents Olin T. Binkley's teaching career, administrative work, and personal life, including work at Wake Forest College, Southern Seminary, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the American Association of Theological Schools. His endeavors as a published author and a Board of Trustees member for the Baptist Children's Home of North Carolina are also documented. Materials in this collection include correspondence, course materials, writings, event materials, subject files, photographs, books, diaries, administrative reports, speeches, and biographical materials.

Olive Branch Baptist Church constituted October 30, 1858. This church has been a member of Brown Creek [E] (1858-83) and Union (1884-present) Baptist associations. This collection includes five donation records of the church, including subscription lists for the building of a new meeting house at Olive Branch (1858) and for the starting of a new school (1860) in the meeting house.

Olive Chapel Baptist Church was founded in Apex, N.C.

This collection includes minute books from April 8, 1899 to August 11, 1906 and loose minutes, 1906-1908, 1910-1911, a letter of dismission to Brown Mountain Baptist Church on behalf of W. P. Johnson (1904), a financial record, and a page of paper that has a list of names.

Correspondence to the Olive and Markham families from Lula Freeman Bryan [Mrs. R. T. Bryan], Southern Baptist Convention missionary in Shangai, China, 1885-1888; Lucius Bunyan Olive and wife, Nell, 1916-1935, and undated; and Loula Olive Rogers [Mrs. Exum Jester Rogers], wife of the pastor of Kenington Avenue Baptist Church, Kansas City, Missouri, 1926.

O.G. Tillman was a graduate of Wake Forest College (Class of 1919) and a missionary to Burma.

Oscar Fitz Allen Baxter was born July 5, 1819, in Currituck County, N.C. He received his bachelor's (1840) and master's degrees (1842) from Wake Forest College and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Baxter went on to become a passed assistant surgeon in the U.S. Navy. Materials in this collection include a listing from the detailing Baxter's educational and professional background along with an autobiographical letter addressed to the Medical Naval Board in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

O.W. Yates was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (Class of 1914) and a Baptist pastor.

Hagler was a Wake Forest College alumnus (1932), Baptist minister, and Baptist State Convention of North Carolina employee. This collection contains biographical information, subject files, sermon outlines, correspondence, scrapbooks, and diaries relating to his pastorates and work for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.

Owen Fennell Herring was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (Class of 1913) and Professor of Religion at Wake Forest College, 1946-1963. This collection contains biographical and genealogical materials; professional and family correspondence; diaries, 1928-1936; education files; financial and legal documents; addresses and speeches; articles and miscellaneous writings; sermons and sermon notes; subject files; notes and notebooks; photographs; scrapbooks; newspaper and magazine clippings; pamphlets; programs and other collected items; and his professional files as professor of religion at Wake Forest College and Winston-Salem State University, and as pastor of three Baptist churches, Maysville First in Kentucky, Watts Street in Durham, N.C., and New Hope in Wake County.

O.M. Smaw, of Nashville, Tennessee, was a lawyer and advocate of human rights for prisoners and the abolition of the death penalty. He received his JD degree from Wake Forest College in 1957.

The Oxford Female Seminary was established in 1850 with Samuel Wait as President. Under President F.P. Hobgood from 1880 the seminary grew, and it was chartered as a junior college after World War I. The school closed in 1924. This collection contains announcements, articles published later about the school, catalogs, a commencement program, faculty information, gradebooks, legal records, photographs, property records, an alumni banquet program, report cards, and yearbooks of the seminary, , and the college, ).