This is a program for the Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Wheeling West Virginia. The program is for a welcoming service for the new members to the church. Bishop Charles Fowler from Buffalo, New York spoke at the ceremony. This took...
Methodist; church and state; church history; churches; church records; religion; religious communities; Christianity
This document is a transcription of the hand-written pages by S.C. Shaw (original pages available for viewing at Schoenbaum Library Archives) documenting the history of the Annual sessions of the Methodist Episcopal Church (South) after the 11th...
Christianity; education; churches; church history; academics; religion; religious communities
This document is a hand-written address by Reverend Samuel Kelly, delivered to the Western Virginia Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, regarding the Inauguration of the L & H (Literary and Historical) Society. A typed...
Dec. 30, 1896 magazine. Includes articles on area church histories, society news, school histories, and local news, as well as advertisements from area businesses.
Tennessee Wesleyan College; Teachers' colleges; Home economics;
David A. Bolton, dean of Tennessee Wesleyan College, memorial describing his association with Delia L. Williams, founder of the Ritter Home for Girls at the Athens School, now Tennessee Wesleyan College. The home was built by the Home Missionary...
Churches; Methodist Episcopal churches; Tennessee Wesleyan College
Log structure photograph on post card stock; caption reads,"Old Rehobeth M.E. Church, near Union, W.Va.built 1785 and deeded to the conference to remain their property as long as grass grows and water runs. The oldest church west of the...
newspapers; floods; disasters; college towns; colleges
This is a special edition paper printed by Pikeville College in the aftermath of the Flood of 1977. While its purpose was to seek funding for the college after the crisis, this paper also relates first-hand accounts of the flood and how it...
These are the minutes of the proceeding from the Holston Conference's annual meeting that took place in the fall of 1836. It lists all the ministers of the Conference as well as which circuits they would serve for 1836-37. It also includes church...
The minutes of the fall 1841 meeting of the Holston Annual Conference, which contain the list of ministers who attended and where they would be assigned for the 1841-42 year. It also contains membership numbers and financial data, as well as the...