Fountain Street Church (Grand Rapids, Mich.) records 1856-1978

Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

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Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents separated two weeks after his birth, and his mother took him to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to live with her parents. On February 1, 1916, approximately two years after her divorce was final, Dorothy King married Gerald R. Ford, a Grand Rapids paint salesman. The Fords began calling her son Gerald ...

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Wishart, Alfred Wesley, 1865-1933

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Alfred W. Wishart was pastor of Fountain Street Baptist Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan From the guide to the Alfred Wesley Wishart lessons and sermons, ca. 1907-1932, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan) ...

Schweitzer, Albert

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Alsatian medical missionary, theologian, musician and philosopher. From the description of Autograph letters in German signed (5) : Lambarene, Gabon, to Count Janos Hoyos, a physician in the U.S., 1958 Feb. 6-1960 June 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634614 Epithet: theologian philosopher and organist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x00015f Alsatian philosopher, theologian, or...

Littlefair, Duncan Elliot, 1912-

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Born 4 October 1912, Duncan E. Littlefair graduated from McMaster University and University of Chicago Divinity School. He was pastor in Kenilworth, Illinois before coming to Fountain Street church in 1944. He remained as pastor until retirement in 1980. From the description of Sermons, 1945-1979. (Grand Rapids Public Library). WorldCat record id: 22198909 ...

McGorrill, Milton S.

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Fountain Street Church (Grand Rapids, Mich.). Choir

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Fountain Street Church traces its history to the founding in 1826 of a Baptist missionary church in what would later become Grand Rapids. In 1837 the "Thomas Mission" became the First Baptist Church of Grand Rapids. By 1848 the congregation of First Baptist worshipped at a church located at Crescent and Division streets. Twenty years later the congregation moved to a small building located on the corner of Fountain and Bostwick streets. By 1856 another group of Baptists ...

Randall, John Herman, Jr

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