Certificates

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...

Scope and Contents The collection includes correspondence, a diary, clippings and articles, periodicals, pamphlets, ephemera, a yearbook, a pin, and other papers from Ruth Burgess Lebo Smith, Charles H. Smith, Mildred Smith Holsworth, and members of the extended Burgess and Smith families in Indiana, the United States, Europe, north Africa, and the Middle East, ranging from 1851 to 1967 and undated, relating to their daily lives, education vocations, travels, family history, and the Methodist Episcopal Church....