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| Record Creator: | Bitting, William Charles | |
| Title: | William C. Bitting, Jr. Papers | |
| Dates: | 1933-1942 | Click here to view the finding aid format suitable for requesting material at the Archives. |
| Abstract: | William Charles Bitting (1887-1954) - often referred to as William C. Bitting, Jr. - was an investment broker who specialized in church bonds and was head of the Bitting and Company brokerage firm. | |
| Extent: | 0.18 cu. feet | |
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William Charles Bitting (1887-1954) - often referred to as William C. Bitting, Jr. - was the son of the Rev. Dr. William Coleman Bitting, a Baptist minister, and Anna Mary Biedler. He was an investment broker who specialized in church bonds and was head of the Bitting and Company brokerage firm. He was involved in the 1934 controversy of defaulted bonds by the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Southern California Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Many of the published articles and letters he wrote were distinctly anti-Methodist and strongly against the spending of investors' money on foreign missions. In other Methodist financial matters, Bitting and Company sued White Cross Hospital Association of the Ohio Conference and the St. Louis Methodist Episcopal Annual Conference in 1934.
The collection contains newspaper clippings, correspondences, and reports which primarily document the 1934 defaulted bonds controversy of Methodist institutions around the Midwest.
Materials have been arranged in the following manner.
This collection is arranged by record type and then chronologically within the folders.
When citing material from this collection please use the following format: Direct reference to the item or its file folder, William C. Bitting, Jr. Papers, 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.
There are no restrictions regarding this collection.
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.
| Call Number | Folder Title | Date(s) |
| 1554-5-7: 1 | Articles | 1934-1935 |
| 1554-5-7: 2 | Correspondences From Bitting | 1934-1941 |
| 1554-5-7: 3 | Correspondences To Bitting | 1934-1942 |
| 1554-5-7: 4 | Telegraphs | 1941 |
| 1554-5-7: 5 | Miscellaneous | 1941 |
| 1554-5-7: 6 | Legal Documents; Bitting and Company | 1933-1934 |
| 1554-5-7: 7 | Legal Documents; Alcoma Association | 1942 |
| 1554-5-7: 8 | Statement of Debt; White Cross Hospital | Undated |
