Scrapbook : Methodist Church, Texas Conference / [collected and compiled by Rev. E. (Elijah) L. Shettles]. 1903-1917.

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Scrapbook : Methodist Church, Texas Conference / [collected and compiled by Rev. E. (Elijah) L. Shettles]. 1903-1917.

Includes treasurers' reports, receipts, ledger entries, and miscellaneous conference documents, mostly pasted on pages, by Rev. Shettles, presiding elder of the San Augustine District, and then, the Calvert District of the Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (South).

1 v. (unpaged) ; 24 cm.

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Elijah Leroy Shettles (1852-1940), Methodist minister, magazine editor, publisher, and bibliographer was born in 1852 in the Flatwoods country of Mississippi near Pontotoc, the son of Abner and Caroline (Browning) Shettles. His maternal grandfather, the family patriarch, was a Baptist minister and had a lifelong influence on Shettles. During his eighty-eight years Shettles worked as a teacher, a farm-implement salesman, a law student, a pressman for a newspaper, a freight agent, a p...