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Record Creator: | Brane, Commodore Ira Berton |
Title: | Commodore Ira Berton Brane Papers |
Dates: | 1863- 1963 |
Abstract: | The Brane papers is a window on late 19th and early 20th centuries' religious and secular life. |
Extent: | .36 cubic feet |
Resource ID: | gcah.ms.4211 |
Commodore Ira Berton Brane (1848-1920), a United Brethren clergyman, was born December 25, 1848 at Frederick, Maryland. He was the son of Henry Brane, born 1808, and Margaret Lauman, born 1800 in Lancaster. Pennsylvania.
C.I.B. Brane - his first name really was Commodore - was largely self-educated. He was converted on November 24, 1870, and joined the Maryland Conference. In 1872 he was licensed to preach in the Virginia Conference, and in 1876 he was ordained. He served as pastor in Pennsylvania and had a large part in building up a congregation in Washington, D.C. For a long time, he was Washington correspondent for the Religious Telescope under the non de plume of Moc Enarb. Brane itinerated for 24 years. In 1885 he married Clara M. Harp, and together they had four children, Brane was elected a presiding elder in 1885, and also was elected a Delegate to the General Conference. He died in 1920.
This collection consists of three scrapbooks filled primarily with clippings from The Religious Telescope, a church newspaper of the United Brethren Church, and from assorted newspapers. These were compiled by C. I. B. Brane while he was active as the Washington correspondent for the magazine and the popular pastor of the Washington, D.C. United Brethren Church. The clippings are a rich resource for both religious and secular history in the latter years of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century. In addition there are several letters and an address on the pioneers' history of the United Brethren Church written by Brane.
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Call Number | Folder Title | Date(s) |
1552-6-1: 1 | Scrapbook 1 | 1863 |
1552-6-1: 2 | Scrapbook 2 | Undated |
1552-6-1: 3 | Scrapbook 3 | Undated |
1552-6-1: 4 | Address and Correspondence | 1883-1963 |