Tract and Missionary Society

Content Description The church record book for each church was where the church clerk kept the membership record and the minutes of the church board meeting. Often, other information was also kept there. In addition to the church record book, churches kept record books for finances, for the Sabbath school, and for other groups or functions, such as the Tract and Missionary Society.This collection includes the official church record books, and date from the founding of the church in 1861 to 1950. The...

Content Description The collection consists of three boxes containing various corporate records of the Ohio Conference, including record books of the Conference for the first 42 years of its existence. Also included is the church record book for the first Seventh-day Adventist Church organized in the state of Ohio, Lovetts Grove.A considerable portion of the collection is material from the Ohio Tract and Missionary Society. The society promoted the distribution of SDA publications, evangelistic...

Content Description The bulk of this collection centers around Burton Phipps’ 32-year tenure as a teacher and later head of the Emmanuel Missionary College (now Andrews University) Biology department. During this time Barbara graduated from Emmanuel Missionary College, taught for a few years, and then returned where she became a librarian in the College library. Her mother, Nettie, worked at Northwestern University, University of Michigan, and Chicago University (now the University of Chicago). In 1961 Barbara and...

Content Description Correspondence by, to, and about S. N. Haskell and his wife Hetty Haskell. The correspondence is primarily directed to Ellen G. White and W. C. White. Other names included in the correspondence are Josphine Gotzian, Sister Sara, Sister Harris, G. B. Starr, E. E. Franke, John H. Kellogg, Arthur G. Daniells, G. B. Thompson, W. H. Covell, A. T. Jones, Clarence Crisler, S. N. Curtiss, W. W. Prescott, and H. W. Cottrell.