Congregational Church Collection 1848-1986 1880-1920

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Congregational Church Collection 1848-1986 1880-1920

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv31479

Ranging in date from 1848 to 1986, the Congregational Church Collection is an artificial collection of records from Congregational churches and related associations in Oregon. The bulk of the collection consists of printed material from various churches, notably the First Congregational Church of Portland and Oregon City's Atkinson Memorial Church. The collection also includes microfilmed records from the First Congregational Church of The Dalles. A limited amount of correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, and assorted church records forms the remainder of the collection.

1.5 cubic feet (4 document cases, 1 reel microfilm)

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6369583

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Oregon Association of the Congregational and Presbyterian Brethren (Or.)

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Atkinson, G. H. (George Henry), 1819-1889

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Knight, Plutarch Stewart

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Pacific Coast Congress of Congregational Churches

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Congregational Missionary Society of Portland and Vicinity (Or.)

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First Congregational Church (The Dalles, Or.)

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Pacific University

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Hassalo Street Congregational Church (Portland, Or.)

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Joslyn, Erastus S.

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Himes, George H., 1844-1940

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George H. Himes was the curator of the Oregon Historical Society. From the description of History of immigration to Oregon, undated. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 64446580 Historian, curator, and printer George Henry Himes was born on May 18, 1844 in Troy, Pennsylvania, and he came overland to the Oregon Territory with his family in 1853. They settled near Olympia, Washington, where Himes's father Tyrus took up farming. George...

Tenney, William Alfred, 1827-1914.

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