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Overview

Biographical Note

Scope and Content

Arrangement

Preferred Citation

Restrictions on Access

Restrictions on Use

Related Material

Subject Terms

Container List [ + ]

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Guide to the Commodore Ira Berton Brane Papers

Prepared by Robert Drew Simpson, Assistant Archivist

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

6/21/2004


Overview of Records

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



Biographical Note

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.


Scope Note

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.


Arrangement

Materials have been arranged in the following manner.

The records are arranged by record type.


Preferred Citation

When citing material from this collection please use the following format: Direct reference to the item or its file folder, Commodore Ira Berton Brane 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.


Related Material

Funkhauser Family

M.V. Dorsey Collection

Subject Terms

Subject Names - Personal
Funkhouser, George Absalom
Wesley, John.
Asbury, Francis
Subject Names - Corporate
Church of the United Brethren in Christ (New constitution)
Subject Topics
Camp-meetings
Children
Christmas
Church and education
Church finance
Church history
Clergy
Evangelistic work
Fund raising
Laity
Local church
Ministry
Prayer
Religious education
Sermons
Sunday schools
Theology
Worship
Youth.
Bible
Subject Geographic
United States.
Genre
Autographs
Clippings
Devotional literature
Manuscripts
Poetry
Reminiscences
Scrapbooks
Speeches.
Articles
Occupations
Minister.


Container List

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