Church history -- Indiana
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:
Union Christian Church of Johnson County record book
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: V316
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two bound volumes containing photocopies of the church records of the Union Christian Church of Johnson County, Indiana. Ranging from 1853 to 1895, the entries include membership records and the minutes of worship meetings and business meetings. Volume one also includes copies of a December 22, 1890 letter from Mattie S. Mann to Mr. and Mrs. [Franklin Smith] Records and a January 9, 1891 letter Mr. Records sent to Harvey Satterwhite. Volume two includes three pages...
Dates:
1853-1895
Union Church of Boone County, Indiana record book
Collection — Folder S2147
Identifier: S2147
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of the record book of the Union Church of Union Township, Boone County, Indiana which “commenced in the year of our Lord 1838.” A Lutheran denomination, the records includes the January 6, 1844 “Regulations of Union Church” signed by the church members, the church’s constitution, and information regarding baptisms, sermons, communion meetings, and treasurer payments. The collection also includes photocopies of a January 17, 1847 letter sent to Henry and...
Dates:
1838-1868
Urban C. Stover collection
Collection
Identifier: L151
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection consists of family letters written during and just after World War I, including letters from his son, Harney W. Stover, while he was stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station (July-October 1918) and in France and New York (November 1918-January 1919); from his nephew, Daniel Stover, a lawyer with the Judge Advocate’s Office in France (1918); and his nephew, Harney B. Stover, an officer in the Field Artillery in France (1918). Also included are writings by...
Dates:
1918-1943
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Urban C. Stover collection
Vernal Baptist Church membership list
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2263
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a typed copy of a membership list for Vernal Baptist Church in Monroe County, Indiana. Charter members of the church from its establishment are included up until around 1900. There are also brief biographies of integral persons.
There is also a photostat copy of the minute book of Vernal Baptist Church in Monroe County, Indiana ranging from 1822 to 1855 (OB213).
There is also a photostat copy of the minute book of Vernal Baptist Church in Monroe County, Indiana ranging from 1822 to 1855 (OB213).
Dates:
1839-1855, circa 1900
Virgil Davis collection
Collection — Folder S0341
Identifier: S0341
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 5 items from Virgil Davis in Indiana ranging from 1803 to 1967, which consist of a notebook listing the deceased in Bethlehem Cemetery, people registered and not registered to vote, Baptist churches in Franklin County, Indiana, and participants in a speaker's bureau (circa 1803-1935); a program for a Jubilee meeting of Harmony Church (May 26, 1887); a binder entitled "Showalter Articles, American Legion History, Other Term Papers" containing U.S. history term papers...
Dates:
1803-1967
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Virgil Davis collection
Washington County Historical Society collection
Collection
Identifier: L194
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters; typed documents, including newspaper clippings; financial and legal documents; official township records; meeting minutes, speeches and writings from Alice and Albert Williams and others in Salem, Indiana and Washington County, Indiana and elsewhere ranging from 1818 to 1967 regarding financial and legal business, family histories and reminiscences, items from newspapers, and speeches and writings.
Dates:
1818-1967, undated
Washington, Indiana Presbyterian church history indenture
Collection — Folder S2243
Identifier: S2243
Scope and Contents
This collection contains one copy of an indenture from Daviess County in Washington, Indiana from 1830 regarding the sale of a lot for the first Presbyterian church.
Dates:
1830
Wesley Chapel, New Albany, Indiana collection
Collection — Folder S2156
Identifier: S2156
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photostat copies of documents related to the Wesley Chapel at New Albany, Indiana, including a circa 1840s resolution signed by committee members G.H. Harrison, Abraham Case and H.M. Dowling regarding the treatment of N. H. Cobb by Rev. Isaac Owens, a college agent for Asbury University (now DePauw University); a June 25, 1850 document regarding charges against John C. Davis for "willful falsehood" and "imprudent conduct" for which he was found guilty; and a document of...
Dates:
circa 1840s-1850
Whitewater Monthly Meeting of Friends history
Collection — Folder S2446
Identifier: S2446
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a copy of "History of Our Local Meeting: Its Founding, Activities and Workers," a ten-page history about the Whitewater Monthly Meeting of Friends of Richmond, Indiana written by Mary P. Thorpe and dated October 6, 1916. The copy of the history in this collection was typed from a copy loaned by Willard Heiss in November 1949.
Dates:
1916, 1949
William E. Niblack paper
Collection
Identifier: S1016
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one paper prepared by William Niblack for the SemiCentennial
Celebration of St. James Episcopal Church in Vincennes, Indiana.
Dates:
1889
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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William E. Niblack paper
