Church History Documents. Collection ca. 1750-1906

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Church History Documents. Collection ca. 1750-1906

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Primarily transcripts and photocopies of record books, journals, minutes, and other documents from early frontier churches. Also includes diaries, correspondence, notebooks, sermons, and miscellaneous notes of individuals important in frontier religious history. Original material includes papers relating to Benjamin Lakin and Edwin Clark's correspondence. Most of the material relates to activity in Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and several of the original thirteen colonies. Well-known names represented include Stephen Peet, Joshua Lacy Wilson, Wilhelm Loehe, and George Whitefield. The documents were collected under the auspices of the Church History Research Fund and in conjunction with the writing of William Warren Sweet's four-volume Religion on the American Frontier.

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Wilson, Joshua Lacy, 1774-1846

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Minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati. From the description of Papers, 1799-1846. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52247699 Minister. Joshua Lacy Wilson, a native of Virginia, moved with his family to Kentucky in 1781. After studying in Pisgah, Ky. in Mercer County and in Louisville, Wilson was licensed as a Presbyterian minister in 1802. He served first at churches in Big Spring and Bardstown, but moved in 1808 ...

Peet, Stephen, 1797-1855

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The Church History Documents Collection consists primarily of typescript copies and photostats of material that was gathered under the auspices of the Church History Research Fund and in conjunction with the writing of William Warren Sweet's Religion on the American Frontier, a four-volume set of source materials on religion in the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection contains many of those documents in unedited form, as well as some documents that were n...

Whitefield, George, 1714-1770

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Epithet: Reverend; of Add MS 34068 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0000fb Epithet: Reverend; Preacher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0000fc Methodist clergyman. From the description of Papers, 1750-1759. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20504475 Clergyman and evangelist. ...

Löhe, Wilhelm, 1808-1872

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Lutheran minister, organizer of the Franconian colony of missionaries in Michigan. From the description of Wilhelm Löhe papers, 1846-1860. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34420733 ...

Sweet, William Warren, 1881-1959

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William Warren Sweet, Professor of American Church History at the University of Chicago, was born in Baldwin, Kansas, in 1881. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University, A.B., 1902; Drew Theological Seminary, B.D., 1906; Crozer Theological Seminary, M.TH. 1907; the University of Pennsylvania, A.M., 1909; Ph.D., 1912. Ohio Wesleyan awarded Sweet a D.Litt. in 1935 and DePauw University a L.H.D. in 1956. Sweet taught at Ohio Wesleyan, 1911-1912, DePauw University, where he was professor and chairman of ...