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| Record Creator: | Dreisbach, John | |
| Title: | John Dreisbach Papers | |
| Date Span: | 1810-1965 | Click here to view the finding aid format suitable for requesting material at the Archives. |
| Abstract: | John Dreisbach was an Evangelical Association minister. The collection is made up of material relating to his life and ministry. | |
| Extent: | 0.46 cubic feet | |
| Identification: |
John Dreisbach was an Evangelical Association minister and co-laborer of Jacob Albright. He was born in Buffalo Valley, Union County, Pennsylvania in 1789. He married Catherine Eyer and, after Catherine died, married her sister, Fanny. There were thirteen natural children and one adopted child in the Dreisbach household.
Dreisbach was the first presiding elder of the Evangelical Association, and served as an itinerant preacher until his health forced him to locate in local congregations. He was instrumental in setting up the publishing interests for the Association in New Berlin, Pennsylvania. Dreisbach served as editor of the Evangelical Messanger.
By 1827, Driesbach had moved to Ohio to oversee the Association's work in what was known then as the Western Conference. He died on August 20, 1871 and was buried near Circleville, Ohio.
The John Dreisbach Papers contains his printed sermon book, sermon outline book (1853-1854), and a personal diary - all written in German. In the sermon outline book, there is a reference to an 1876 date which relates to A. E. Dreisbach's estate; a descendant's of John. After the A. E. Dreisbach entry, writings from the childhood of Arthur W. Dreisbach, another descendant, can be found. There are extra copies of his John's sermons with English translations. The images include two glass ambrotype portraits of John and his and two additional photographs of John. There is correspondence to a Reverend A. Stapleton, as well as other correspondence, which gives information about Dreisbach and items within the collection.
Records pertaining to Dreisbach's family history are in notation format. There are other personal papers which include poems, hymns, a copy of John's final testament and a couple of passages from his journal. These records are written in both German and English. The sole artifact is a lamp bracket from the First Evangelical Church in Dayton, Ohio, which was used by John Dreisbach as a potato masher.
Materials have been arranged in the following manner.
All paper files are arranged by date from those without dates in the front and the rest in chronological order. The lamp bracket is stored in the Artifacts vault.
When citing material from this collection please use the following format: Direct reference to the item or its file folder, John Dreisbach 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.
| Call Number | Folder Title | Date(s) |
| 1553-6-6: 1 | Ambrotype portraits of John Dreisbach and Wife | Undated |
| 1553-6-6: 2 | Pictures of John Dreisbach | Undated |
| 1553-6-6: 3 | Bibliographical Materials on Dreisbach | 1965 |
| 1553-6-6: 4 | Information on Dreisbach's Family | 1891 |
| 1553-6-6: 5 | Newspaper Clippings | 1810-1829 |
| 1553-6-6: 6 | Personal Papers | 1813-1953 |
| 1553-6-6: 7 | Dreisbach Diary (original copy) | 1817-1818 |
| 1553-6-6: 8 | Dreisbach Diary Translation By Rev. George Goetz | 1817-1818 |
| 1553-6-6: 9 | Printed Dreisbach Sermon | 1820 |
| 1553-6-6: 10 | Handwritten and typed copies of Dreisbach Sermons | 1820 |
| 1553-6-6: 11 | John Dreisbach's Book (sermons and personal information) | 1853-1854 |
| 1553-6-6: 12 | Correspondence about Dreisbach | 1889-1965 |
| 5011-4-9: 1 | Artifact: Potato Masher | Undated |
