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Overview

Biographical Note

Scope and Content

Arrangement

Preferred Citation

Restrictions on Access

Restrictions on Use

Related Material

Subject Terms

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Guide to the Records of the United Evangelical Church

Prepared by the Staff of the Archives Center

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

4/8/2004


Overview of Records

Record Creator: United Evangelical Church
Title: Records of the United Evangelical Church
Dates: 1891- 1923
Abstract: The United Evangelical Church is one of the predecessor denominations of the United Methodist Church. The collection is made up of records of the various agencies of the church. It also includes material regarding local churches and annual conferences.
Extent: 6.62 cubic feet
Resource ID: gcah.rg.4364



History Note

The United Evangelical Church was formed in 1894, the result of a split within the Evangelical Association in 1891. See the earlier record above for details.


Scope Note

This collection is made up of records of the various agencies of the church. It also includes material regarding local churches and annual conferences. The collection is made up of eight series. The five largest series which make up the bulk of the collection are the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society, Annual Conferences and Local Church, the Home and Foreign Missionary Society, the Board of Publication, and the War Service Commission. There is one unsigned letter from President Woodrow Wilson to Rev. E.O. Watson in the War Service Commission series.


Arrangement

Materials have been arranged in the following manner.

Series: Annual Conferences and Local Church
Series: Board of Publication
Series: Church Extension Society
Series: General Conference
Series: Home and Foreign Missionary Society
Series: Keystone League of Christian Endeavor
Series: War Service Commission
Series: Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society

Preferred Citation

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


Access Restrictions

Denominational agency journals, reports and committee minutes are open to the pubilc unless they have been closed in accordance with requirements specified in the Discipline. Denominational agency staff office records are closed for twenty- five (25) years after creation. Personnel records are closed for at least 75 years. Appeals can be made to the General Commission on Archives and History, P. O. Box 127, Madison, NJ 07940.


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

J.D. Domer Collection

Records of the Evangelical Association of North America

Records of the Evangelical Church

Roy Benton Leedy Collection


Subject Terms

Additional Creators - Corporate
United Evangelical Church. Church Extension Society
United Evangelical Church. General Conference
United Evangelical Church. Home and Foreign Missionary Society
United Evangelical Church. Keystone League of Christian Endeavor
United Evangelical Church. War Service Commission
United Evangelical Church. Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society.
United Evangelical Church. Board of Publication
Subject Names - Personal
: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
:Watson, E.O.
Subject Names - Corporate
United Evangelical Church. Church Extension Society
United Evangelical Church. General Conference
United Evangelical Church. Home and Foreign Missionary Society
United Evangelical Church. Keystone League of Christian Endeavor
United Evangelical Church. War Service Commission
United Evangelical Church. Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society
United Evangelical Church. Board of Publication
Subject Topics
Home Missions
Journalism, Religious
Missions
Missions-China
Publishers
Women
Women missionaries
World War, 1914-1918.
Church publicity
Subject Geographic
Illinois
Ohio
Pennsylvania.
China
Genre
Clippings
Correspondence
Maps
Minutes
Photographs
Posters
Programs
Publications
Reports.
Account books


Container List


Series: Annual Conferences and Local Church
Call Number Folder Title Date(s)
2283-1-5: 1 Central Pennsylvania Annual Conference Oversized Photograph 1907
2285-7-7: 1 Ohio Annual Conference Missionary Conference Book 1912-1922
2288-2-2: 2 First United Evangelical Church, Ohio, Bakery Delivery Wagon Photograph Undated
2285-7-7: 2 Ohio Annual Conference Akron District Ministerial Convention Minutes 1909-1912
2288-2-2: 3 Central Pennsylvania Annual Conference Class of Deacons Photograph 1891
2285-7-7: 3 Ohio Annual Conference Baltimore Camp Meeting Association Minutes 1903-1920
2288-2-2: 4 Highland Park Camp Meeting Photographs Undated
2285-7-7: 4 Ohio Annual Conference Proceedings of the Camp Meting Association of North Eastern Ohio 1897-1917
2285-7-6: 5 First United Evangelical Church, Canton, Ohio, Souvenir Programme of Dedication Exercises 1906
2288-2-2: 5 Illinois Annual Conference Group Photograph 1894
2285-7-7: 5 Ohio Annual Conference Mission and Benevolent Fund Treasurer's Record 1921-1922
2285-7-6: 6 East Boulevard United Evangelical Church, Cleveland, Ohio, Photograph 1917
2288-2-2: 6 Central Pennsylvania Annual Conference Group Photograph 1901
2285-7-7: 6 Ohio Annual Conference Board of Trustees Minutes 1921-1922
2285-7-6: 7 Western Union College Le Mars, Iowa, Class Photograph 1918
2285-7-7: 7 Ohio Annual Conference Educational Aid Union Minutes 1909-1922
2285-7-6: 8 Western Union College Le Mars, Iowa, General Statement Undated
2285-7-7: 8 Ohio Annual Conference Quarterly Conference Minutes 1900-1907
2285-7-7: 9 Ohio Annual Conference Warren Mission Quarterly Conference Minutes 1903-1922
2285-7-7: 10 Ohio Annual Conference Summit Charge Quarterly Conference Minutes 1915-1922
2285-7-7: 11 Ohio Annual Conference Proceedings of the Committee on Church Property 1911-1922
2285-7-4: 12 Central Pennsylvania Annual Conference First Annual Report of the Deaconess Board 1916
2285-7-4: 13 Central Pennsylvania Annual Conference Convention Programs 1896-1908
2288-2-1: 13 Western Union College, Le Mars, Iowa "The Pilot" Yearbook 1921
2285-7-4: 14 Central Pennsylvania College, New Berlin, Pennsylvania, Annual Report of the Treasurer 1901
2285-7-4: 15 Ohio Annual Conference Souvenir Program Directory of the Twenty-fourth Annual Session 1917
2285-7-4: 16 East Pennsylvania Annual Conference Souvenir and Directory 1911
2285-7-4: 17 East Pennsylvania Annual Conference Directory 1916
2285-7-4: 18 East Pennsylvania Annual Conference Home Camp Meeting Advertising the Preaching of Rev. John Cavanaugh 1904
2285-7-4: 19 Northwestern Annual Conference Sixteenth Annual Session Program 1915
2285-7-4: 20 Ohio Annual Conference Akron Mission Circuit Book 1900
2285-7-4: 21 Ohio Annual Conference Akron Mission Circuit Book 1902
2285-7-4: 22 Ohio Annual Conference Canton Mission Circuit Book 1914-1915
2285-7-4: 23 Ohio Annual Conference Johnsville Mission Circuit Book 1901-1902
2285-7-4: 24 Ohio Annual Conference Lancaster Station Circuit Book 1894
2285-7-4: 25 Ohio Annual Conference Missionary Institutes Program 1917
2285-7-4: 26 S. L. Wiest Speech to Central Pennsylvania Annual Conference 1899
2288-2-1: 30 Ministers of the East Pennsylvania Annual Conference Appointments 1897-1898

Series: Board of Publication
Call Number Folder Title Date(s)
2285-7-4: 1 Executive Committee Minutes 1895-1915
2288-2-2: 1 A. C. Hangen Editor of "The Evangelical" Photograph Undated
2285-7-4: 2 Executive Committee Minutes 1916
2285-7-4: 3 Executive Committee Minutes 1917
2285-7-4: 4 Executive Committee Minutes 1918
2285-7-4: 5 Executive Committee Minutes 1919
2285-7-4: 6 Executive Committee Minutes 1920
2285-7-4: 7 Executive Committee Minutes 1921
2285-7-4: 8 Executive Committee Minutes 1922
2285-7-4: 9 "What Everybody Wants to Know" by Henry E. Gehman Undated
2288-2-1: 9 News Clippings 1917-1920
2288-2-1: 10 Employees' Guide 1915
2285-7-4: 10 "A Discussion of Certain Phases of Church Union" 1921
2285-7-6: 10 Yearbook 1911
2288-2-1: 11 Opening Exercises of the New United Evangelical Publishing House Program 1918
2285-7-4: 11 "Evangelical Teacher Training" Manual of Teacher Training for United Evangelical Sunday Schools by W. E. Peffley 1914
2285-7-6: 11 Yearbook 1914
2288-2-1: 12 Building Committee Minutes 1917-1919
2285-7-6: 12 Yearbook 1915
2285-7-6: 13 Yearbook 1916
2285-7-6: 14 Yearbook 1917
2285-7-6: 15 Yearbook 1918
2285-7-6: 16 Yearbook 1919
2285-7-6: 17 Yearbook 1920
2285-7-6: 18 Yearbook 1921
2288-2-1: 27 "The Ettinger Memorial" edited by Rev. A. Stapelton 1915
2285-7-3: 30 Minutes 1894-1900
2285-7-3: 31 Minutes 1901-1904
2285-7-3: 32 Minutes 1905-1907
2285-7-3: 33 Minutes 1908-1910
2285-7-3: 34 Minutes 1911-1912
2285-7-3: 35 Minutes 1913-1915
2285-7-3: 36 Minutes 1916-1922

Series: Church Extension Society
Call Number Folder Title Date(s)
2285-7-2: 7 History and Organization of 1898 1898
2285-7-2: 8 By-Laws 1903
2285-7-2: 9 Board of Trustees Minutes 1899-1902
2285-7-2: 10 Board of Trustees Minutes 1903-1904
2285-7-2: 11 Board of Trustees Minutes 1905-1909
2285-7-2: 12 Board of Trustees Minutes 1910-1913
2285-7-2: 13 Board of Trustees Minutes 1913-1915
2285-7-2: 14 Board of Trustees Minutes 1914-1922

Series: General Conference
Call Number Folder Title Date(s)
2285-3-4: 1 1910 General Conference Minutes Oversized Handwritten Bound Volume 1910
2285-3-6: 1 1914 General Conference Minutes Oversized Bound Volume 1914
2285-3-7: 1 1891-1906 General Conference Minutes Handwritten Oversized Bound Volume 1891-1906
2286-7-6: 1 1902 General Conference Proceedings 1902
2285-3-4: 2 1895-1920 Statistics 1895-1920
2286-7-6: 2 1906 General Conference Proceedings 1906
2283-1-5: 2 1906 General Conference Oversized Group Photograph 1906
2286-7-6: 3 1918 General Conference Proceedings 1918
2283-1-5: 3 1914 General Conference Oversized Group Photograph 1914
2286-7-6: 4 1922 General Conference Minutes - Folder 1 1922
2283-1-5: 4 1910 General Conference Oversized Group Photographs 1910
2286-7-6: 5 1922 General Conference Minutes - Folder 2 1922
2288-2-1: 7 News Clippings 1906-1914
2285-7-6: 9 1910 General Conference Directory and Programme 1910

Series: Home and Foreign Missionary Society
Call Number Folder Title Date(s)
2286-4-1: 1 Treasurer's Book, Oversized Bound Volume 1901-1907
2286-7-7: 1 Board of Missions Executive Committee Minutes 1920-1922
2287-1-1: 1 Evangelical Missions in China Issued by the Mission Boards of the Evangelical Association and the United Evangelical Church Map Undated
2288-2-1: 1 China News Clippings 1908-1920
2286-7-7: 2 Secretary's Minute Book on Southern Mountaineer Mission Work 1919-1920
2288-2-1: 2 Missionary Statistics 1919
2286-7-7: 3 Report of Committee on Southern Mountaineer Mission Work Undated
2286-7-7: 4 Report of Visit to the Appalachia Mining Camps Undated
2286-7-7: 5 Southern Mountaineer Work Instituted Undated
2283-1-5: 5 Krecker Memorial Home Kuling, China Oversized Photograph Undated
2286-7-6: 6 Board of Missions Minutes Bound Volume 1894-1914
2286-7-7: 6 Report of Investigation of Proposed Appalachian Mission Field 1920
2286-7-6: 7 Board of Missions Minutes Bound Volume 1914-1919
2286-7-7: 7 China Mission Minutes Bound Volume 1908-1923
2286-7-6: 8 Board of Missions Executive Committee Minutes 1894-1903
2286-7-7: 8 China Mission Treasurer's Book 1905-1913
2286-7-6: 9 Board of Missions Executive Committee Minutes 1904-1911
2286-7-7: 9 Correspondence Regarding Burning and Looting of Liling House, China 1920-1922
2286-7-7: 10 Legal Papers 1911-1920
2286-7-7: 11 "The Work of the Missionary Society of the United Evangelical Church" 1902
2286-7-7: 12 Foreign Mission Day Programs 1912-1915
2286-7-7: 13 Manual of Rules and Regulations for the Use of Missionary Candidates of the United Evangelical Church Undated
2286-7-7: 14 "Latest Missionary Statistics" 1919
2286-7-7: 15 The Missionary Year Book 1909
2286-7-7: 16 "A Conference on City Missionary Work", edited by Rev. B. H. Niebel c.1910
2288-2-1: 17 Girls Boarding School Changsha, China Photograph Undated
2288-2-1: 18 Boy's Boarding School Liling, China Photographs 1916-1917
2288-2-1: 19 China Photographs Undated
2285-7-6: 19 Annual Report of the Corresponding Secretary 1912
2288-2-1: 20 Fifth Annual Report of the United Evangelical Mission Hospital, Liling, Hunan, China 1920
2285-7-6: 20 Annual Report of the Corresponding Secretary 1915
2285-7-6: 21 Annual Report of the Corresponding Secretary 1917
2285-7-6: 22 Annual Report of the Corresponding Secretary 1918
2288-2-1: 31 Annual Report of the Corresponding Secretary 1911

Series: Keystone League of Christian Endeavor
Call Number Folder Title Date(s)
2285-7-6: 1 Ministerial, Sunday School, and Keystone League of Christian Endeavor Annual Conference Convention Programs 1894-1908
2285-7-6: 2 Bible Conference and Keystone League of Christian Endeavor, Central Pennsylvania Annual Conference Convention Programs 1894-1908
2285-7-6: 3 Annual Conference Quarterly Convention Programs 1895-1898
2285-7-6: 4 Annual Conference Quarterly Convention Programs 1905-1906
2288-2-1: 5 "The K. L. C. E. Journal" 1908
2288-2-1: 6 Sunday School and Keystone League of Christian Endeavor First General Convention Program 1914
2283-1-5: 7 First Grand Convention Poster 1914
2285-7-2: 15 Treasurer's Record 1906-1917
2288-2-1: 16 Sixteenth Annual Convention Programs 1917
2285-7-2: 16 Contributions 1912-1922
2285-7-2: 17 K. L. C. E. Journal 1910
2288-2-1: 21 Minutes 1893-1906
2288-2-1: 22 Williamsport District Ministerial Sunday School and Keystone League of Christian Endeavor Convention Program 1918

Series: War Service Commission
Call Number Folder Title Date(s)
2285-7-3: 1 Meeting Minutes 1917-1920
2285-7-3: 2 Meeting of the Executive Committee of the General Commission of the Churches Minutes 1918
2285-7-3: 3 Meeting of the Executive Committee of the General Wartime Commission of the Churches Minutes 1919
2285-7-3: 4 Second Annual Meeting of the General Wartime Commission Minutes 1918
2285-7-3: 5 Meeting of the General Wartime Commission Minutes 1919
2285-7-3: 6 Joint Meeting of the Central Committee and the Joint Advisory Committee on Publicity of the Cooperative Financial Campaign of the Churches Minutes 1918
2285-7-3: 7 Meeting of the Provisional Central Committee for the Cooperative Program of the Churches Minutes 1918
2285-7-3: 8 Meeting of the Joint Advisory Committee on Publicity of the Cooperative Campaign of the Churches for Funds in Support of War Work and Reconstruction Minutes 1918
2288-2-1: 8 Commission Members Pictures News Clippings 1918-1919
2285-7-3: 9 Conference Concerning the Proposed Joint Financial Campaign Minutes 1918
2285-7-3: 10 General Committee of Army and Navy Chaplains Minutes 1919
2285-7-3: 11 General Committee on Army and Navy Chaplains Minutes 1919-1920
2285-7-3: 12 Joint Meeting of the General Committee On Army and Navy Chaplains and The Washington Committee of the Federal Council Minutes 1920
2285-7-3: 13 Proposed Budget 1918
2285-7-3: 14 Financial Statement 1919
2285-7-3: 15 War Rolls Undated
2285-7-3: 16 Chaplain Legislation by Rev. E. O. Watson Undated
2285-7-3: 17 "The Work of Camp Pastors" by Rev. Asa J. Ferry Undated
2285-7-3: 18 Report of James De Wolf Perry Jr. Chief Champlain's Service Section to American Red Cross Sent to Dr. Robert E. Speer Chairman General War Commission 1919
2285-7-3: 19 Reports Undated
2285-7-3: 20 Report of the General Wartime Commission of the Churches 1917
2285-7-3: 21 Unsigned Correspondence From President Woodrow Wilson to Rev. E.O. Watson 1920
2285-7-3: 22 Correspondence 1917
2285-7-3: 23 Correspondence 1918
2285-7-3: 24 Correspondence 1919
2285-7-3: 25 Correspondence 1920-1921
2285-7-3: 26 Correspondence Undated
2285-7-3: 27 News Clippings Undated
2285-7-3: 28 Questionnaires for Gathering and Preserving Record of War Work of Churches 1919
2285-7-3: 29 Poster Undated

Series: Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society
Call Number Folder Title Date(s)
2285-7-5: 1 East Pennsylvania Conference Branch Minutes and Reports 1900-1914
2285-7-8: 1 Treasurer's Account Book 1894-1901
2285-7-1: 1 Annual Meeting Minutes 1899-1903
2285-7-2: 1 Treasurer's Account Book 1910-1921
2285-7-5: 2 Executive Committee of the East Pennsylvania Conference Branch Minutes and Reports 1902-1918
2285-7-8: 2 Annual Meeting Minutes 1895-1898
2285-7-1: 2 Annual Meeting Minutes 1905-1910
2285-7-2: 2 1884-1910 List of Life, Honorary and Memorial Members Undated
2285-7-5: 3 East Pennsylvania Conference Branch Minutes and Reports 1915-1917
2285-7-8: 3 Executive Committee Minutes 1894-1898
2285-7-1: 3 Annual Meeting Minutes 1911-1916
2285-7-2: 3 "A Mission Study Demonstration: Two Ways of Doing It" by Mrs. C. P. Wiles Undated
2288-2-1: 3 News Clippings Undated
2285-7-5: 4 East Pennsylvania Conference Branch Treasurer's Account Book 1894-1895
2285-7-1: 4 Annual Meeting Minutes 1917
2285-7-2: 4 "Suggestions for Mission Band Entertainments" Undated
2288-2-1: 4 Boy's Boarding School, Liling, China Postcard from Ms. Ritzman Undated
2285-7-5: 5 East Pennsylvania Conference Branch Reports 1895-1904
2285-7-1: 5 Annual Meeting Minutes 1918
2285-7-2: 5 "The Missionary Hymnal" Undated
2285-7-5: 6 East Pennsylvania Conference Branch Programs 1896-1911
2285-7-1: 6 Annual Meeting Minutes 1919
2285-7-2: 6 "Reminiscences: Being a Record of Five and Twenty Years' Progress in the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of The United Evangelical Church" edited by Estella Hartzler Steinmetz 1910
2283-1-5: 6 Woman's Board of Missions Group Photograph 1899
2285-7-5: 7 East Pennsylvania Conference Branch Programs 1917-1922
2285-7-1: 7 Annual Meeting Minutes 1920
2285-7-5: 8 "History of Illinois Branch W. H. and F. M. S. of the United Evangelical Church c. 1918
2285-7-1: 8 Annual Meeting Minutes 1921
2285-7-5: 9 Illinois Conference Branch Reports 1919
2285-7-1: 9 Annual Meeting Minutes 1922
2285-7-5: 10 Illinois Conference Branch Silver Anniversary Program 1918
2285-7-1: 10 Annual Meeting Minutes 1922
2285-7-5: 11 Illinois Conference Branch Welcome Home Greeting to Rev. T. W. Woodside and Family Returned Missionaries from Africa Program 1897
2285-7-1: 11 Treasurer's Account Book 1901-1910
2285-7-5: 12 Illinois Branch Annual Meeting Programs 1895-1904
2285-7-5: 13 Illinois Conference Branch Special New Years Day Services Program 1903
2285-7-5: 14 Illinois Conference Branch Annual Convention Programs, Ribbon, and News Clipping 1894-1919
2288-2-1: 14 "God's Messengers a Symbolical History of the Woman's Board of Home and Foreign Missions of the United Evangelical Church" by Sarah Ernest Snyder and Martha V. Ellenberger Undated
2285-7-5: 15 Ohio Conference Branch Minutes and Reports 1917
2288-2-1: 15 Missionary Oratorical Contest 1909-1921
2285-7-5: 16 Ohio Conference Branch Minutes and Reports 1918
2285-7-5: 17 Ohio Conference Branch Minutes, Reports, and History 1919
2285-7-5: 18 Ohio Conference Branch Minutes and Reports 1920
2285-7-5: 19 Ohio Conference Branch Minutes, Reports, and Programs 1921
2285-7-5: 20 Ohio Conference Branch Minutes and Reports 1922
2285-7-5: 21 Ohio Conference Branch Minutes and Reports 1900-1916
2285-7-5: 22 Oregon Conference Branch Convention Program 1917
2288-2-1: 23 "A Mission Study Demonstration- Two Ways of Doing It" by Mrs. C. P. Wiles Undated
2288-2-1: 24 "The Last Command" by C. Vene Edwards Undated
2288-2-1: 25 "The Mishap of Glorious Life and What It Led To- A True Story" by Mrs. C. C. Talbott Undated
2288-2-1: 26 Facts-Figures Questions 1914
2285-7-4: 27 Woman's Board Annual Meeting Programs 1899-1905
2285-7-4: 28 East Pennsylvania Conference Branch Minutes and Reports 1895-1899
2288-2-1: 28 "The Mission of the Child" Illustrated Leaflet 1904
2288-2-1: 29 Report of Superintendent of Mission Bands, Illinois Branch 1918-1919
2288-2-1: 32 "The Changed Burden" by Mrs. C. C. Talbott Undated