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Record Creator: | Domer, J. D. |
Title: | J. D. Domer Collection |
Dates: | 1876 |
Abstract: | J. D. Domer was a pastor in the Evangelical Association and United Evangelical Church. This accession contains a variety of handwritten essays dealing with Sunday schools, class meetings, historical notes on the charitable society and the denomination, the episcopacy, sermon preparation, and church polity. There is a unique leather case in the collection in good condition. The case is filled with a collection of Domer's sermons on a variety of topics and texts. |
Extent: | 0.17 cu. feet |
Resource ID: | gcah.ms.4195 |
J. D. Domer (1841-1902), American ministers, was born in Venago County, Pennsylvania, in 1834. He entered the ministry in 1861 in the Pittsburgh Conference of the Evangelical Association. In 1891, when the division within the Evangelical Association led to the formation of the United Evangelical Church, Domer joined the Ohio Conference of that same splinter group. He was an itinerant minister for 38 years until his death in 1902.
This accession contains a variety of handwritten essays dealing with Sunday schools, class meetings, historical notes on the charitable society and the denomination, the episcopacy, sermon preparation, and church polity. There are nine essays. In addition, there is a unique leather case in the collection in good condition size 6 x2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches and has a 36 inch strap which wraps around the case to secure it. It is referred to as a sermon case and may have been designed to fit into a saddlebag. The case is filled with a collection of Domer's sermons on a variety of topics and texts. Most of them a readable. Only two are dated. Both were preached at New Hamburg, Pennsylvania in 1876.
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Call Number | Folder Title | Date(s) |
1553-1-6: 1 | Sermons | 1876 |
1553-1-6: 2 | Essays | 1876 |