Certificates

Scope and Contents This collection contains a photostat of a certificate that Mrs. Eliza Jane Hall received on September 27, 1845. In recognition of her paying the sum of $5.00 at the North Indiana Annual Conference, Missionary Society, an auxilliary to the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, she was given lifetime membership. At the time of the donation of the photostat copy, the original certificate was housed at the Broadway Methodist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Scope and Contents This collection contains “A History of the North Indiana Conference, Formerly ‘The Wabash Conference’”, written and submitted by conference secretary Alex H. Widney of Rensselaer, Indiana in 1868. The handwritten history was compiled by Widney from “Authentic Papers” and includes a geographical sketch of the North Indiana Conference, historical sketches of the conference sessions from September 1846 to August 1867, a biography of Rev. Samuel W. Widney, a biography of Rev. Thomas Wheat, and an...