Church history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander Foster papers
Collection — Folder S0483
Identifier: S0483
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of correspondence and legal documents from Alexander Foster and his family in Indiana and Washington, D.C., ranging from 1832 to 1852, regarding churches, military pension, a will, and family business.
Dates:
1826-1852
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Alexander Foster papers
Alma Brown papers
Collection — Folder S172
Identifier: S0172
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typewritten biography from Sisters of Providence in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. ranging from 1879 to 1953 regarding the life of Sister Mary Borromeo (Alma Brown).
Dates:
1879/03/26-1953/12/20
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Alma Brown papers
Benjamin Bowman papers
Collection — Folder S149
Identifier: S0149
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed document from Lewis S. Bowman in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1775 to 1958 regarding family and church history in Wayne County, Indiana.
Dates:
1775-1958
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Benjamin Bowman papers
Bess V. Ehrmann papers
Collection — Folder S412
Identifier: S0412
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a carbon copy of a typed speech from Bess V. Ehrmann in Rockport, Indiana ranging from 1816 to 1885 regarding pioneer churches in Spencer County, Indiana.
Dates:
1816-1885
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Bess V. Ehrmann papers
Bethel Church history
Collection — Folder S0652
Identifier: S0652
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the history of Bethel Church from Harlan E. Hicks in Montgomery County, Indiana. The names of most church members are listed.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Bethel Church history
Bluffton-Wells County Public Library oral history transcripts
Collection
Identifier: OH003
Scope and Contents
This collection contains oral history transcripts of interviews with five members of the Bluffton, Indiana community by Barbara Elliott for the Bluffton-Wells County Public Library in 1976. The people interivewed were Samuel Aeschliman, Sr., Harold Caylor, John H. Edris, Sr., R. N. Fitzpatrick, and James W. Stogdill.
Dates:
1976
Carroll O. Cox papers
Collection — Folder S303
Identifier: S0303
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed carbon copies from Carroll O. Cox in the 1800s regarding the history of early Methodist churches and congregational members in Posey County, Indiana.
Dates:
1800s
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Carroll O. Cox papers
Cecil Beeson collection
Collection
Identifier: L566
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed, autographed and photocopied documents from various people, government and private organizations collected by local genealogist and historian Cecil Beeson in Blackford County, Indiana, ranging from 1838 to 1972 regarding family histories, biographies, U.S. Civil War documents, church histories and governmental records.There is an oversize document, "The Early History of the First Baptist Church of Montpelier, Indiana" by Rev. C. H. Kendall, circa 1908...
Dates:
1839-1972, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Cecil Beeson collection
Center Township, Rush County, Indiana collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2248
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of items related to Center Township, Rush County, Indiana, including docket entry records of the justice of the peace from November 1830 to September 1831; school attendance records for District No. 3, Township 15, Range 10 from November 1845 to February 1846, certified and signed on March 27, 1846 by the teacher, Gabriel F. Sutton; the treasurer's book of the Shiloh United Presbyterian Church Sabbath School containing entries ranging from 1884 to 1892; and...
Dates:
1830-1892
Charlotte Farnham Leonard letter
Collection — Folder S0822
Identifier: S0822
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a June 15, 1848 letter written by Charlotte Farnham Leonard of Madison, Indiana to Reverend Samuel F. Jarvis of Middletown, Connecticut. Her letter is written on a June 14, 1848 circular printed by members of the Episcopal congregation of Christ Church in Madison and Jackson Kemper, the bishop in charge of the Diocese of Indiana. The circular was created to try and raise money to build a "suitable house for public worship." Charolotte Leonard was a former parishioner of...
Dates:
1848/06/15
