The Church of the Brethren in northeastern Ohio, Part 15

Author: Diehm, Edgar Graybill, 1891-1976
Publication date: 1963
Publisher: Brethren Press
Number of Pages: 389


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the Illinois State Board. She was called to Chicago in March 1930, and there was examined by the medical force of the General Mission Board. She was given treatments and passed the medical examination. While in training as a nurse Evelyn met Marguerite Burke. They became close friends and Evelyn was very happy to sail with the Burkes for Nigeria in 1930. She worked there until 1951.


Corda Wertz Krieger was born at Columbiana, Ohio, on December 1, 1898. Her parents were William P. and Della Wertz. She was a member of the Black River church at the time of her call to the mission field. She attended Manchester College, receiving an A.B. degree, and then spent one year at Bethany Biblical Seminary. From the Battle Creek Sanitarium and College of Nursing she received a B.S. and an R.N. degree. Before entering the overseas mission program she worked in Rappahannock County, Virginia, one year and in Greene County, Virginia, for three years. After being in China as a teacher and nurse from 1932 to 1941, she was married to Martin Krieger in 1942.


Dorothy M. Inman was born on June 12, 1904, at Bradford, Ohio. Her parents were Isaac I. and Ella Inman. Dorothy took her training in nursing at Memorial Hospital, Piqua, Ohio. Before going into overseas service she had been active as a Sunday-school teacher and as a worker in the Christian En- deavor society. She went to Nigeria as a nurse in 1933 but returned home in 1934 because of ill-health.


Grayce Brumbaugh, the daughter of J. C. and Emma (Kurtz) Brumbaugh, was born in Hartville, Ohio, on February 28, 1911. Grayce received her training at La Verne and Man- chester colleges and Bethany Hospital. She sailed for Nigeria in November 1937. After a few months in Garkida she was assigned to Lassa to supervise and work in the hospital and dispensary. In 1950 she taught in the teachers' training school at Garkida for one school term. In December 1951 she was assigned to medical work at Chibuk. The dispensary at Chibuk serves a large area.


Grace Eshelman was born in Middlebranch, Ohio, on November 10, 1910. Her parents were W. H. and Mary Eshel- man. She received a B.S. degree from Manchester College and took her training in nursing at the Bethany Hospital school of nursing. Before going into foreign mission work she


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led singing in her home church (East Nimishillen) ; organized an older youth fellowship in the First church, Chicago; helped organize and purchase the Brethren Fellowship House in Chicago. She was a nurse in China from 1947 to 1949 and a director of nurses from 1951 to 1954 in India.


June Heestand Wolfe was born to Perry A. and Mildred K. Heestand on September 7, 1914, at Chatham, Ohio. She received a B.A. degree from Manchester College in 1940. Prior to her going into an overseas assignment, she was a church chorister and a leader in summer camps. She and her husband were in Ecuador from 1948 to 1951. They are now in Bolivia working under the Peace Corps of the United States.


Eva Shepfer Minnich, the daughter of Edward and Sara E. (Moomaw) Shepfer, was born on June 11, 1892, at Ragers- ville, Ohio. She attended Juniata College for three years, Manchester College for two years (A.B. degree), and Bethany Biblical Seminary. Prior to going into overseas service she was a church-school teacher; a member of the music committee, Elgin, Illinois; and a choir mem- ber. Her service in India, from 1948 to 1950, was that of making a home for missionary guests of all missions and faiths when they came to Bombay for various rea- sons. She and her husband, H. Spenser, now live in La Verne, California.


Roger Ingold was born on April 4, 1926, in Akron, Ohio, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ingold. He attended Akron University for one year (1944) and Manchester College for three years; here he re- Roger Ingold ceived an A.B. degree. He was married to Virginia Mae Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Johnson, of Bringhurst, Indi- ana, in June 1947. He taught chemistry and physics in the Springfield high school from 1948 to 1960. Roger and his family had been very active in the local church (Springfield). Before going to Africa, he was a member of the mission board, vice- chairman of the council of boards, a member of the program


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committee, and the director of the CALL program in 1958 in Northeastern Ohio. Roger left for Nigeria with his family in 1960, to teach at the Waka school. He is now the field secretary of Nigeria.


Ted Bauman was born in eastern Pennsylvania and grew up in Bluffton, Ohio, as a General Conference Mennonite. Ted was graduated from Bluffton College in 1952, and earned a master's degree in business administration at Western Reserve University in 1958. At Bluffton College he met Joan Clymer. Joan was graduated in 1954 and they were married June 12, 1954. Ted was employed as a cost clerk at Westinghouse Electric for one year, as a bookkeeper at the university hospital of Cleveland for four years (including his alternate service), and for three and one-half years as an auditor for the account- ing firm of Ernst and Ernst in Cleveland. He is a certified public accountant. Ted and Joan were introduced to the Church of the Brethren by a fellow 1-W, and they joined the First Church of the Brethren in Cleveland in 1956. Both have been very active in church work. Ted served as a deacon, a member of the evangelism commission, youth adviser, and financial secretary. He also served his community as an active member of the Protestant Big Brothers of Cleveland and a member of the board of trustees of the social welfare depart- ment of the Cleveland Area Church Federation. Joan has taught in the primary department, has been on the board of Christian education for three years, and has been active in choir work and the women's circle. Ted and Joan left the States on February 17, 1961, to join our workers in Nigeria on a short-term basis. Ted became business manager for the mission after a period of orientation. His term of service will expire in the summer of 1963.


These missionaries have lived in Northeastern Ohio before or after service overseas: Holly and Kathryn Garner - India, 1916-1932; Isaiah and Elizabeth Weybright Oberholtzer - China, 1916-1938; Howard Alley - India, 1917-1946; Wilbur Stover - India, 1894-1920; William Beahm - Nigeria, 1924- 1937; Hazel Messer - India, 1931-1955; Edward and Helen (Buehl) Angeny - China, 1940-1945; John Detrick - China, 1946-1951; John and Esther Rinehart - Nigeria, 1953 -. Most of these are included in the biographical section of this history.


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PUBLICATIONS AND EDUCATION


About 1825, Henry Kurtz, a Lutheran minister, moved from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to Columbiana County, Ohio. A few months later he moved to Stark County, Ohio. Here he attended the meetings of the Brethren. He was baptized by Elder George Hoke of the Canton church on April 6, 1828. Two years later he was elected to the ministry. Brother Kurtz purchased a farm from Elder Hoke and his son-in-law in Osnaburg Township. In his home on this farm he established a printing shop in 1832. This may be the first revival of printing among the Brethren since the cessation of printing by the Sauers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the time of the Revolutionary War. In the Canton Repository for July 3, 1932, is this item: "One Hundred Years Ago Today. . . . Henry Kurtz opened a German Printing office in a part of his residence in Osnaburg Township." Otis Bowman, Louisville, Ohio, has three books in his library which bear the imprint of Henry Kurtz. They are Menno Simons, 1832; The New Testament, 1836; Psalms and Hymnbook, 1841. A number of other books printed by Elder Kurtz are known.


In 1838 Henry Kurtz visited his parents and sister in Germany. After a year he returned to America. In 1842 he moved into Mahoning County, locating on a farm near Poland. In the loft of the springhouse on his farm Brother Kurtz began to publish the Gospel Visitor in 1851. (For a picture of the springhouse see the frontispiece of this book.) In the spring of 1856 James Quinter came from Pennsylvania to join Brother Kurtz in the publishing of the Visitor. In June 1857 the office of the Visitor was moved to Columbiana. The building in which the Visitor was printed is still standing.


In 1864, because of the infirmities of old age, Henry Kurtz leased the publishing business to his son, J. H. Kurtz, and James Quinter. Brother Quinter moved to Covington, Ohio, in 1866. In 1873 J. H. Kurtz sold his interest in the Visitor to Brother Quinter. In 1876 the Visitor and the Christian Family Companion, of which Brother Quinter was sole proprietor, were consolidated with the Pilgrim and issued under the title of the Primitive Christian, published at Huntingdon, Pennsyl- vania. In 1883 the Brethren at Work and the Primitive Chris- tian were united and the Gospel Messenger was the result.


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Old Printing Shop in Columbiana


After the Kurtz printing shop was moved to Columbiana, the Visitor was printed in the frame building. It is still stand- ing but will be torn down soon.


James Quinter was the editor-in-chief of the merged papers until his death.


Various attempts were made to publish a district paper. In January 1879, the Gospel Preacher was issued. This was a weekly four-page publication. S. Z. Sharp and S. H. Bashor were the first editors. Brother Sharp resigned after six months and J. H. Worst became the associate editor. The paper was published until 1882. The Northeastern Ohio Herald appeared in the 1930's; this was followed by the Clarion, a mimeographed paper. From 1955 to 1958 the Northeastern Ohio Herald was published as a printed bimonthly paper. Then it became a quarterly edited by the executive secretary, Gordon Bucher. It now also covers the District of Northwestern Ohio.


Ashland College was chartered in June 1878 as a result of a desire to have an institution of higher education in the district. The first board of trustees was made up of the following Brethren: Austin Moherman, I. D. Parker, Joseph


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Roop, Alpheus Dickey, H. K. Myers, John Shidler, Richard Arnold, and William Sadler of Ashland, Ohio; Jacob Mishler, Mogadore, Ohio; George Irvin, Golden Corners, Ohio; A. J. Hixon and Josiah Keim of Louisville, Ohio. S. Z. Sharp, formerly from Maryville, Tennessee, was the first president. The college started out with bright prospects.


The division of 1882 in the church "swept down upon the infant institution with irreparable destruc- tion." A majority of the members of the board of trustees cast their lot with the Progressive group. The constitution and the by- laws were changed so that the institution could be op- erated by the Progressive Brethren. Five brethren, who remained with the Church of the Brethren, contributed about ten thou- sand dollars toward wip- ing out the debt of about R. H. Miller College President, 1882 eighteen thousand dollars. These brethren were Austin Moherman and I. D. Parker of Ashland, Ohio; George Irvin, Golden Corners, Ohio; Cyrus Hoover and Reuben Bookwalter, Smithville, Ohio. This is re- lated not to pass on a failure, but to show that large interests were surrendered without resort to law courts. The experience may have been a stimulant in arousing a greater interest in education in the district.


In the fall of 1904 a Bible institute, or college, was opened by E. S. Young on the northwest corner of Oxford Avenue and Fourteenth Street, N.W., Canton, Ohio. By the latter part of 1907 the school was closed and Brother Young sold the property to the city of Canton on July 19, 1910, as a building site for the proposed Lehman high school.


DISTRICT MEETINGS


Year Church


Moderator


Assistant Moderator


Writing Clerk


1874 Springfield .


Jacob Garver


Joseph Rittenhouse


William Shidler


1875 Canton Center .


Jacob Garver


Joseph Rittenhouse


1876 Danville George Irvin


P. J. Brown


E. L. Yoder


1877 Chippewa Morgan Workman


Conrad Kahler


Noah Longanecker


1878


Mahoning


George Irvin


P. J. Brown


Noah Longanecker


1879 Maple Grove


Conrad Kahler


George Irvin


Noah Longanecker Josiah Keim


1881 Mohican


R. H. Miller


P. J. Brown


Noah Longanecker


1882


Tuscarawas


Morgan Workman


P. J. Brown


Noah Longanecker


1883 Loudonville


Noah Longanecker


Conrad Kahler


I. D. Parker William Sadler


1885 Owl Creek


I. D. Parker


Noah Longanecker


William Sadler


1886 Springfield


I. D. Parker


David Young


William Sadler


1887


East Nimishillen . I. D. Parker


William Murray


Noah Longanecker


1888 Sugarcreek


I. D. Parker


Noah Longanecker


T. C. Wieand D. M. Irvin


1890 Mohican


Noah Longanecker


1890 Chippewa .


I. D. Parker


1891 Mt. Pleasant


Noah Longanecker


I. D. Parker Samuel Sprankel


Reuben Shroyer


Jacob Mishler


Jacob Mishler


1880 West Nimishillen . P. J. Brown


Samuel Garver


1884 Wooster . Noah Longanecker


Samuel Garver


1889 Ashland Dickey . Noah Longanecker


I. D. Parker


D. N. Workman


P. J. Brown


1892 Owl Creek . . . .


Noah Longanecker


Jonathan Creek .. Noah Longanecker


1893 1894


Springfield


Samuel Sprankel


Noah Longanecker


Edward Loomis


Sandy . .


Edward Loomis


Noah Longanecker Noah Longanecker Noah Longanecker


1898 Sugarcreek . .


Tobias Hoover


1899 Maple Grove


Noah Longanecker


F. B. Weimer


1900 East Nimishillen . Tobias Hoover Mohican - no minutes


F. B. Weimer


1901 1902 1903 Black River . .


Jonathan Creek .. Tobias Hoover


W. F. England


W. F. England Tobias Hoover


1904 Chippewa


W. F. England


1905 Springfield W. F. England


Samuel Sprankel


1906 Sugarcreek


Noah Longanecker


1907 Wooster


W. F. England


1908 Canton Center


James Murray


James Murray


Noah Longanecker


G. S. Strausbaugh


D. R. McFadden


1911 East Nimishillen


A. S. Workman


Noah Longanecker


James Murray G. S. Strausbaugh W. D. Keller


H. H. Helman


S. S. Shoemaker


S. S. Shoemaker


C. H. Murray C. H. Murray


Jacob Mishler Jacob Mishler Jacob Mishler Jacob Mishler Jacob Mishler Quincy Leckrone Quincy Leckrone Quincy Leckrone W. F. England


Reuben Shroyer E. S. Young Edward Shepfer T. S. Moherman Edward Shepfer H. H. Helman


D. R. McFadden W. D. Keller


1912 Chippewa


1913 West Nimishillen . G. S. Strausbaugh 1914 Springfield . G. S. Strausbaugh


1915 Ashland Dickey .. D. R. McFadden


H. H. Helman 1909 Mahoning .


T. S. Moherman


1910 Owl Creek .


James Murray


I. D. Parker Edward Loomis Noah Longanecker


1895 Danville


1896 1897 West Nimishillen . Tobias Hoover


Noah Longanecker


W. F. England James Murray Noah Longanecker


1916 Black River


S. S. Shoemaker


1917 Sugarcreek G. S. Strausbaugh


G. S. Strausbaugh A. F. Shriver Edward Shepfer H. H. Helman


1919 Reading . . S. S. Shoemaker


G. S. Strausbaugh


C. H. Murray C. H. Murray


1920 Jonathan Creek .. . G. S. Strausbaugh


A. F. Shriver


H. H. Helman


1922 Maple Grove


C. H. Deardorff


G. S. Strausbaugh G. S. Strausbaugh C. H. Murray


1923 Hartville


C. H. Deardorff


G. S. Strausbaugh C. H. Murray D. F. Stuckey


1924 Akron


G. S. Strausbaugh


H. H. Helman


1925 Canton Center


C. L. Wilkins


T. S. Moherman


J. C. Inman C. H. Murray


1926 Owl Creek .


G. S. Strausbaugh


M. M. Taylor


1927 West Nimishillen . C. L. Wilkins


C. H. Deardorff


Ora DeLauter J. C. Inman


1928


Ashland Dickey ..


Edward Shepfer


G. S. Strausbaugh


1929 Hartville


Ora DeLauter


J. C. Inman


G. W. Phillips


1930 Olivet


G. S. Strausbaugh


C. H. Deardorff


H. D. Emmert


1931


Springfield


Edward Shepfer


C. H. Deardorff


H. D. Emmert


1932


Wooster


J. C. Inman


G. S. Strausbaugh


J. P. Prather


1933 Akron


C. H. Deardorff


W. D. Keller


1934 Beech Grove


G. S. Strausbaugh


J. C. Inman


1935 Freeburg . .


Ira E. Long


J. C. Inman


C. A. Helm


1937 Springfield


J. C. Inman


Walter M. Young


1938 East Nimishillen . G. S. Strausbaugh


1939


Springfield


J. C. Inman


W. D. Fisher C. H. Deardorff


C. H. Murray Ora DeLauter C. A. Helm


1936 Black River


G. S. Strausbaugh


J. C. Inman Edward Shepfer


J. C. Inman W. D. Fisher


C. H. Murray C. H. Murray 1918 Danville D. R. McFadden


1921 East Nimishillen . D. R. McFadden


1940 Ashland City . W. D. Fisher


C. H. Petry


Martin Krieger


1941 Camp Zion


Jesse D. Reber


A. H. Miller


Martin Krieger


1942 Camp Zion R. V. Bollinger


A. H. Miller


Martin Krieger


1943 Camp Zion


G. S. Strausbaugh


R. V. Bollinger


Martin Krieger


1944 Hartville


W. A. Petry


R. V. Bollinger


W. H. Miley


1945 Camp Zion .


H. C. Lehman


G. S. Strausbaugh


John C. Middlekauff


1946 Camp Zion


J. D. Zigler


G. S. Strausbaugh


E. G. Diehm


1947 East Nimishillen . Wilmer Petry


J. C. Inman


E. G. Diehm


1948 Camp Zion


Newton D. Cosner


D. R. McFadden


E. G. Diehm


1949 Camp Zion


Glen Baird


J. C. Inman


E. G. Diehm


1950 Olivet


J. C. Inman


Wilmer A. Petry


E. G. Diehm


1951 Camp Zion Wilmer A. Petry


Glenn Bowlby


E. G. Diehm


1952 Camp Zion


K. W. Hollinger


E. G. Diehm


1953 Camp Zion


E. I. Brumbaugh


E. G. Diehm


1954 Camp Zion


Arthur Hess


E. G. Diehm


1955 Camp Zion


Bernard N. King Harlan C. Grubb


Ralph B. Martin


E. G. Diehm


1957 Camp Zion


E. I. Brumbaugh


Curtis W. Dubble E. G. Diehm


1958 Camp Zion


Curtis W. Dubble


Wilmer A. Petry


E. G. Diehm


1959 Ashland College .. Wilmer A. Petry


Guy Buch Ralph Martin John Blough


Clair O. Throne


1960 Ashland College .. Jacob Dick


1961 Ashland College .. J. P. Prather


Clair O. Throne


1962 Ashland College .. Guy Buch


Merlin Shull


Clair O. Throne


1963 Ashland College .. William Walters


Merlin Shull


Clair O. Throne


J. D. Zigler Arthur Hess W. H. Miley Harlan C. Grubb


E. G. Diehm


1956 Camp Zion


E. G. Diehm


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ANNUAL MEETINGS IN NORTHEASTERN OHIO


A number of Annual Meetings were held in Northeastern Ohio.


Annual Meeting of 1822


This was the first Annual Conference held west of the Allegheny Mountains. The meeting was held within the territory of the Canton Center church, Nimishillen congre- gation, in the barn of Brother Daniel Brown, which was located in what is now Louisville, Ohio.


Annual Meeting of 1834


The second Annual Meeting in Northeastern Ohio was held one mile west of Freeburg, Stark County, on the farm owned by Elder Elias Dickey.


Annual Meeting of 1843


This Conference was held within the territory of the Mohican church, Wayne County, on the farm of Elder John Shoemaker, one mile west of where the church house now stands. The sessions were held in a large barn forty-five by eighty feet.


Annual Meeting of 1848


On June 10, 1848, the meeting began in the home of Jacob Kurtz. The house, built for church purposes, was twenty-eight


Barn in Which the 1848 Annual Meeting Was Held


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by forty feet in size. It was located in Wayne County, in the territory of the Chippewa church, about six miles southwest of Orrville.


Annual Meeting of 1854


The 1854 meeting was held on the farm of Elder Elias Dickey, about five miles southeast of Ashland. This was the second time that Elder Dickey entertained the Annual Meeting, the other being that of 1834, in Stark County, when he lived on a farm there. According to tradition, the attendance was twenty thousand. Brother James Quinter, then a young minister, was one of the speakers at this Conference.


Annual Meeting of 1872


This meeting was held on the farm owned by Elder Cyrus Hoover in Wayne County. The moderator was Henry Davy and the reading clerk John Wise.


Annual Meeting of 1881


The 1881 Conference was held in Ashland, on the campus of Ashland College, then owned by the Church of the Brethren. This was the year before the final division in the church. Most of the discussions had to do with supposed disorders in the Brotherhood. The Conference did, however, raise three thou- sand dollars to save the mission work in Sweden and Denmark.


CALENDAR DEVELOPMENT OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO


1775-1800. Earliest immigrations of Brethren to Northeastern Ohio.


1804. Nimishillen church, Stark County, organized, the first congregation of the Brethren in Northeastern Ohio.


1808. Mill Creek church, in Mahoning County, begun. Re- organized into the Mahoning congregation in 1842.


1817. Jonathan Creek church, Perry County, started.


1805-1820. Sugarcreek church organized.


1820-1825. Reading church.


1822. Danville church, Knox County, started with fourteen


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charter members. First Annual Meeting west of the Ohio River held within the bounds of the Nimishillen church.


1823. Owl Creek church, Knox County.


1825. Canton church organized from the Nimishillen congre- gation, Stark County.


1830. Mohican church, Wayne County.


1834. Annual Meeting near Freeburg, Stark County.


1835-1840. Tuscarawas church.


1843. Annual Meeting held within the bounds of the Mohican church on the Shoemaker farm.


1848. Annual Meeting held five miles southwest of Orrville, on the farm of Jacob Kurtz.


1851. Beginning of church publications by Henry Kurtz, in a springhouse loft, Mahoning County.


1854. Annual Meeting within the bounds of the Ashland church, five miles southeast of Ashland, on the Elias Dickey farm.


1855. Black River church, Medina County, organized from the Mohican congregation, Wayne County.


1856. Loudonville church, Ashland County.


1860. Maple Grove church, Ashland County. Ashland church, Ashland County.


1864. First district meeting of the Northeastern District of Ohio, one and one-half miles southwest of Hartville, on the Jacob Brumbaugh farm, Stark County.


1866. Mt. Zion Sunday school, Tuscarawas County. First Sun- day school organized within district - a "union" school. 1868. Nimishillen church organized into the East Nimishillen, West Nimishillen, and Springfield congregations. Jonathan Creek Sunday school. Discontinued after a few years. Reorganized in 1885.


1868-1869. Black River Sunday school.


1869. Mohican Sunday school.


1870. North Bend Sunday school. Owl Creek Sunday school.


1872. Annual Meeting held with the Wooster congregation,


on the Cyrus Hoover farm, near Smithville. Ashland Sunday school.


1873. Maple Grove Sunday school.


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1874. Paradise Sunday school within the Wooster congrega- tion. Mahoning Sunday school.


1875. Beginning of the home mission board.


1877. Mt. Zion church, Tuscarawas County. Orrville church. Disorganized in 1880. Wooster church, Wayne County. Wooster Sunday school.


1877-1878. Sugarcreek Sunday school.


1878. McMahon Creek church. Disorganized in 1883. First district Sunday-school convention held in Northeastern Ohio, within Chippewa church. Ashland College chartered, Ashland, Ohio. Chippewa Sunday school. Bristolville church, Trumbull County. Ashland City Sunday school. 1879. Tuscarawas Sunday school. Ashland City church. Dis- organized in 1882. Reorganized in 1914.


1881. Annual Meeting held within the bounds of the Ashland City church, on the college grounds. Eden Sunday school, within the bounds of the Tuscarawas church.


1885. June 28, West Nimishillen Sunday school.


1886. Chippewa sisters' aid society. Discontinued. Lake Shore church, Ashtabula County. Disorganized in 1907.


1887. Beginning of district Sunday-school secretary work. Springfield Sunday school.


1889. Rush Creek congregation transferred to Southern Ohio. 1890. East Nimishillen Sunday school. District meeting changed from spring to fall.


1891. Beginning of district ministerial meetings.


1893. Bristolville union Sunday school. Delaware church dis- organized, Delaware County.


1894. Maple Grove aid society.


1895. Ashland Dickey young people's society. Ashland Dickey aid society. General missionary treasury dispensed with.


1896. Beginning of the district credential committee. Coshoc- ton church transferred to the Sugar Creek congregation. Canton City Sunday school, East Tuscarawas Street.


1897. Chippewa Christian workers.


1898. Chippewa aid society reorganized.


1902. Black River missionary reading circle - later changed


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to Christian workers society. Canton Christian workers. Mahoning aid society.


1903. Canton City church, Canton, Ohio. Tuscarawas Chris- tian workers.


1904. Beginning of district Christian workers meetings.


1905. Kent Sunday school. Canton City Christian workers. Mahoning Christian workers. Owl Creek Christian workers.


1906. Beginning of Sunday-school institutes. Sugarcreek aid society.


1907. Wooster church aid society. Kent Christian workers. Jonathan Creek aid society.


1908. Danville Christian workers. Jonathan Creek Christian workers.


1909. Springfield Christian workers.


1910. Beginning of district temperance committee work.


1911. East Nimishillen Christian workers.


1912. Canton city aid society.


1913. Sugarcreek Christian workers. Owl Creek aid society.


1914. Canton City church dedicated. Evangelical church house bought by the Ashland and Maple Grove churches and work organized in the city of Ashland.


1915. Ashland City.


1916. New Philadelphia.


1918. Kent.


1919. Woodworth.


1920. Hartville.


1921. Richland. Added territory to district - three counties. Minutes of 1921. East Chippewa. Cleveland.


1923. Organization of boards and committees of district.


1924. Central treasurer. Two delegates on Standing Commit- tees. Alliance. Merging of committees.


1926. Change of church name from Canton Center to Center. Request for transfer of Greenwood church. District bul- letin. B.Y.P.D. representation on joint board.




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