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Overview

Biographical Note

Scope and Content

Arrangement

Preferred Citation

Restrictions on Access

Restrictions on Use

Subject Terms

Container List [ + ]

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Guide to the William John Shuey Papers

Prepared by Sophia Novozilova, Student Assistant and Mark C. Shenise, Associate Archivist

United Methodist Archives and History Center
General Commission on Archives and History, Madison, New Jersey

5/4/2004


Overview of Records

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



Biographical Note

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.


Scope Note

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.


Arrangement

Materials have been arranged in the following manner.

The collection is arranged according to record type and then chronologically within the folders.


Preferred Citation

When citing material from this collection please use the following format: Direct reference to the item or its file folder, W. J. Shuey Collection, United Methodist Church Archives - GCAH, Madison, New Jersey. Do not make use of the item's call number as that is not a stable descriptor.


Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding this collection.


Restrictions on Use

Detailed use restrictions relating to our collections can be requested from the office of the archivist at the General Commission on Archives and History. Photocopying is handled by the staff and may be limited in certain instances. Before using any material for publication from this collection a formal request for permission to publish is expected and required.


Subject Terms

Subject Names - Corporate
Church of the United Brethren in Christ (New constitution)
Subject Topics
Missions-Africa
Slavery.
Missionaries
Subject Geographic
Ohio.
Africa
Genre
Financial records
Journals
Reminiscences.
Articles
Occupations
Minister.


Container List

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