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Churches -- Presbyterian and Reformed

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Centerville Presbyterian Church Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2672
Overview

This collection consists of material from the Centerville Presbyterian Church including histories, correspondence, scrapbooks, programs, and papers about the women's auxiliary, missionary society work, finances, and social activities.

Dates: 1913-1914

Chestnut Ridge Camp Scrapbook

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2241
Overview

A scrapbook kept by Agnes Peebles, a counselor at a summer camp for underprivileged children, many from Scotts Run. Although run by the Presbyterian Church, the camp was secular in nature and open to youth of all faiths. Includes photographs, sheet music, letters, and reports; also includes reference to a lecture by a visiting German Jew on conditions in Germany.

Dates: 1940-41

Helvetia Reformed Church Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3031
Overview The records and papers of a Randolph County church the Helvetia German Evangelical Reformed (later Zion Presbyterian), containing minute books, treasurer records, newsletters, correspondence and photographs. The early records of the Helvetia church are in German, the original language of the immigrant Swiss pioneers and founders of the church and Helvetia. The records are reflective of the struggles of the congregation in financing and constructing the church building and becoming affiliated...
Dates: 1873-1987

John A. Preston, Attorney and Politician, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3114
Overview

Correspondence, financial records, and insurance papers of Lewisburg attorney and politician, John A. Preston. Much of the collection deals with the 1901 fire at the Lewisburg Female Institute, for which Preston was a trustee and secretary-treasurer. Related A&M collections include those of Preston relatives, John J. Davis, John J. D. Preston, and Samuel Price as well as the Roy Bird Cook Collection.

Dates: 1880-1909

Mann-Hutchinson Family Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3177
Overview

Correspondence of Elizabeth T. Mann, a farmer's widow of Ft. Spring, Greenbrier Co. The letters written to Mann describe family matters and farm home life during the late nineteenth century.

Dates: 1879-1893

Mary Behner Christopher, Missionary, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3131
Overview The microfilm collection contains 10 diaries and inserted supplementary letters, clippings, and photographs kept by Presbyterian missionary Mary Behner during her years as the first director of The Shack, a settlement house in the Scotts Run Area of Monongalia County. In addition to the microfilm, there is an addendum to this collection dating from 2006. It includes a photograph album kept by Anna Santore DeLancy, who was a Sunday School teacher at the Shack, a Presbyterian neighborhood...
Dates: 1928-1937

Pickens Presbyterian Church Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3041
Overview

The minute books of a Randolph County church recording minutes to session meetings, the church governing body composed of elected church officers such as elders and deacons. The minutes refer to disciplinary actions, admittance of new members, and the hiring of ministers. There are also church newsletters which contain information on weddings, funerals and social activities of the church.

Dates: 1901-1980

Pittenger Family Letters

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3127
Overview

Various Pittenger family members wrote these letters, mostly to other family members. The most frequent correspondent is Abraham Pittenger, a farmer, teacher, and local government official in Hancock County. The letters detail farming and marketing of farm goods, educational developments, affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and family events. The collection also provides significant information about the early Republican party, secession crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction.

Dates: 1841-1875

Presbyterian Church, Tazewell District, Virginia Minute Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2479
Overview

This volume is entitled The Condensed Minute Book for the Presiding Elders and Pastors. It contains various forms and entry pages for the recording of church membership, financial and government affairs. The volume was kept by Reverend J.E. Wolfe of Tazewell, Va. during the years 1918-19. His handwritten entries include the names of church members in Tazewell District, funds raised for various purposes, attendance at quarterly meetings, and the names of church officers.

Dates: 1918-19

Reverend Franklin Trubee Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2831
Overview Correspondence, membership lists, forms, descriptions and by-laws of self help co-operatives organized and instituted in the vicinity of Scotts Run during the latter part of the Great Depression. Trubee was a newly ordained pastor sent upon request from local volunteers by the Mission Board of the Presbyterian Church. His task was to conduct religious services and to develop programs to alleviate poverty for those unemployed miners and their families who had not been resettled at Arthurdale....
Dates: 1938-1988