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Record Creator: | Shuey, William John |
Title: | William John Shuey Papers |
Dates: | 1822- 1889 |
Abstract: | William John Shuey (1827-1920), was a minister in the United Brethren in Christ Church. |
Extent: | 0.5 cu. feet |
Resource ID: | gcah.ms.4061 |
William John Shuey (1827-1920) was a minister in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. He was born on February 9, 1827 in Miamisburg, Montgomery County, Ohio, to Adam Shuey and Hannah Aley Shuey. He entered the active ministry with the United Brethren Church in 1849, and was appointed to his first charge at Lewisburg, Preble County, Ohio. In the autumn of 1851, he was transferred to Cincinnati, where he served the church for seven years. He was twice elected presiding elder in the Miami Conference of his church, and served two years as pastor of the First United Brethren Church of Dayton.
In 1855, Shuey visited Freetown, in Sierra Leone, for the purpose of locating a mission. In 1864, he was elected one of the agents of the United Brethren publishing house. Shuey helped to found a theological seminary - Union Theological Seminary in Dayton.
Shuey married Sarah Berger on March 7, 1848. They had four sons, three of whom survived to adulthood. William John Shuey died in 1920.
This collection contains a Bible Society record book and financial records. There is also a journal belonging to William John Shuey beginning January 1855, when he departed for Africa, and ending in July 1855, when he returned to the United States. The journal is accompanied by several handwritten pages of reminiscences.
Materials have been arranged in the following manner.
The collection is arranged according to record type and then chronologically within the folders.
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Call Number | Folder Title | Date(s) |
1554-5-6: 1 | Financial Records | 1855-1889 |
1554-5-6: 2 | Journal | 1855 |
1554-5-6: 3 | Reminiscences | 1855 |
1554-5-6: 4 | Miscellaneous | 1882 |
1554-6-3: 1 | Montgomery County Bible Society Record Book | 1822-1886 |