Records, 1853-1946 (bulk: 1870-1946)

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Records, 1853-1946 (bulk: 1870-1946)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9544407

Collection includes: index to minutes, financial records (including journals, ledgers, cash books, contributions and appropriations, payments and receipts, and building grants), legal records, manuals, miscellaneous pamphlets and church/manse building plans.

7 cubic ft.

Presbyterian Historical Society, PHS

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SNAC Resource ID: 8357198

Presbyterian Historical Society, PHS

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Committee on Church Extension.

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Board of Church Extension.

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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund

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In 1844 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School) committed itself to aid financially weak congregations build better churches, funded through systematic benevolence giving. In 1855, it appointed a Committee on Church Extension, headquartered in St. Louis near the frontier country where most of the aid was to be extended, that was directly responsible to the General Assembly. In 1860, this work was assigned to the new Board of Church Extension, which continued to...