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| Record Creator: | Baumgartner, Samuel |
| Title: | Samuel Baumgartner Collection |
| Dates: | 1832-1927 |
| Abstract: | Samuel H. Baumgartner (1860-1936), an Evangelical Association minister of the Indiana Conference, was born on March 2nd, 1860, near Vera Cruz, Indiana and died in 1936. Baumgartner was licensed as a preacher on probation in April 1887 at Rochester, ordained as a deacon in 1889, and appointed an elder in 1891. |
| Extent: | 0.18 cu. feet |
| Resource ID: | gcah.ms.1406 |
Samuel H. Baumgartner (1860-1936), an Evangelical Association minister of the Indiana Conference, was born March 2nd, 1860, near Vera Cruz, Indiana and died in 1936. He married Kessie Keipper in 1886.
Baumgartner was licensed as a preacher on probation in April 1887 at Rochester, Indiana, ordained as a deacon in 1889, and an elder in 1891. He served for twelve years in six fields, namely, West Point (Bipus), two; Rochester City, one; Kendallville and Avilla, two; Ft. Wayne First, four; and Wabash, two. Baumgartner was appointed Secretary of Conference by Bishop J. J. Esher in 1891 and consecutively for the following nine times.
In 1899 the conference elected him presiding elder, an office in which he served eight years on the Elkhart and Ft. Wayne districts. In 1907 and 1908 he served First Church in Indianapolis. From 1909 to 1922, he again served as presiding elder on all presiding elder districts of the conference. In 1923, Baumgartner resigned as presiding elder to become solicitor of funds for the liquidation of the debt on the Old Peoples Home, and in 1927, completed forty years of active service to the Evangelical Church.
Three bound diaries. The first few pages of the third volume also contain notes created by John Roesner. Article clipping from 1927 Evangelical Messenger that sums up his service to the church.
Materials have been arranged in the following manner.
This collection is arranged by record type and by chronological date.
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| Call Number | Folder Title | Date(s) |
| 1552-2: 1 | Diaries | 1832-1834 |
| 1552-2: 2 | Diaries | 1834-1835 |
| 1552-2: 3 | Diaries | 1835-1839 |
| 1552-2: 4 | Newspaper Clippings; The Evangelical Messenger | 1927 |
