First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Seneca Falls records, 1843-1911.

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First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Seneca Falls records, 1843-1911.

Seven numbered volumes containing trustee meeting minutes (1843-1871, 1880-1913), proceedings of the church's monthly business meetings (1858- 1870), clerk's records (1874-1880) and several miscellaneous papers including receipts, certificates of dismission, and a subscription list. The records document the church's 1869 split, church discipline, finances, and reactions to the Women's Temperance Union and freemasonry.

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First Congregational Church of Seneca Falls (Seneca Falls, N.Y.)

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First Wesleyan Society of Seneca Falls (Seneca Falls, N.Y.)

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Woman's christian temperance union

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Temperance organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. Campaigning against the use of alcohol and in favor of labor laws and prison reform, the W.C.T.U. became one of the largest and most influential women's organizations of the 19th century. It became global when the World W.C.T.U. was founded in 1883. The organization continued to exist through the 20th century, although membership declined after the passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919. From the description of ...

First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Seneca Falls (Seneca Falls, N.Y.)

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On March 27, 1843, a portion of the congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Seneca Falls seceded and organized the First Wesleyan Society of Seneca Falls at the school house. They built a church costing $1770 on a lot costing $600 at the corner of Mynderse and Fall Streets. That same year, many Congregationalists who had joined the Presbyterian church after their church had disbanded, withdrew over the question of American slavery and joined the Wesleyan church. In 1852 an effort was m...