Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Typescript of a paper written by Dr. Matthew Tyler Foulds titled "Enemies of the State: Political and Religious Secession in Western Virginia, 1844-1863". The paper regards the political and social influence of the Methodist Church and its various branches on the area that would become West Virginia, particularly those Methodists that supported the political and economic interests of western Virginia and, at the beginning of the Civil War, the unionist cause and statehood movement.

Record books of Methodist Episcopal Church, South organizations in Fairmont, West Virginia, including three record volumes of the Finch's Run Sabbath School (1867-1895), a conference record volume of the Monumental Methodist Episcopal South Church, Fairmont Charge, Clarksburg district, Western Virginia conference (1900-12) and a church register of the Monumental South Church (1894-1966).