| | Book | Save | | 41 | Title: | Church records: First Methodist (German), Cleveland, and, Church of the Cross, Cleveland Heights, 1846-1928
| | | | Creator: | Church of the Cross (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) | | | | | Rowe, Joanne. | | | | | First Methodist Church (Cleveland, Ohio : German) | | | | Publication: | Cleveland Heights, O,1979- ] | | | | Notes: | Copied and indexed by Mrs. Allan Rowe. | | | | Call #: | F34ZZ C63RI C561 | | | | Extent: | v. ; 28 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland Heights | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County | Germans -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 42 | Title: | African American Archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society Manuscripts (African American Archives Vertical File)
| | | | Creator: | African American Archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society | | | | Dates: | ca. 1880s-2007 | | | | Abstract: | The African American Archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society Manuscripts is a collection of small manuscript accessions that have been donated to the Western Reserve Historical Society. These manuscripts often consist of one document but can include multiple items contained in one folder. This collection of material documents numerous subjects and themes in the history of African Americans, Cleveland, Ohio, and Northeast Ohio. The collection consists of advertisements, articles, audiovisual material, autobiographies, biographical sketches, certificates, church bulletins, correspondence, fliers, genealogies, histories, letters, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, maps, meeting material, membership cards, notes, pamphlets, papers, photographs, poems, postcards, a poster, program and souvenir books, reports, scrapbooks, statistics, speeches, transcripts, and other material. | | | | Call #: | MS 5487 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize container) | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland | African American athletes -- Ohio -- Cleveland | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy | United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Negro leagues -- History
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 46 | Title: | Eighth United Church of Christ Records
| | | | Creator: | Eighth United Church of Christ | | | | Dates: | 1889-1977 | | | | Abstract: | The Eighth United Church of Christ was organized in 1889 as the Eighth Reformed Congregation of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1945 it became the Eighth Evangelical and Reformed Church of Cleveland. In 1957 the name was changed to the Eighth United Church of Christ. The church ceased operations in 1977. The collection consists of church histories, constitutions, church records, vital statistics, consistory minutes, congregational meeting minutes, annual reports, financial records, membership information, deeds, fire insurance policy papers, correspondence, publications, records of church organizations, and miscellaneous material. | | | | Call #: | MS 4085 | | | | Extent: | 4.90 linear feet (7 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Eighth United Church of Christ (Cleveland, Ohio) | Churches, Reformed | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland | German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Religious life and customs | Women in church work -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 47 | Title: | St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Cleveland Heights Records
| | | | Creator: | St. Paul's Episcopal Church | | | | Dates: | 1874-1969 | | | | Abstract: | St. Paul's Episcopal Church was founded in 1846, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1928 St. Martin's Episcopal Church (est. 1916) merged with St. Paul's and the church moved to Cleveland Heights. The name was changed to St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Cleveland Heights. The collection consists of church histories, regulations, St. Paul's Guild minutes, vital statistics, annual reports, registers of church services, treasurers' reports, lists of communicants, membership transfers and lists, correspondence, publications, examinations on the Book of Common Prayer, notes taken by Rector John O'Hear, sermon notes, records of St. Martin's Church, seating charts, land surveys, records of church organizations, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous material. | | | | Call #: | MS 4088 | | | | Extent: | 11.20 linear feet (12 containers) | | | | Subjects: | St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Cleveland Heights | Churches, Anglican -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Churches, Anglican -- Ohio -- Cleveland Heights | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland Heights | Church and the poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland Heights
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 48 | Title: | Saint John's Episcopal Church Records
| | | | Creator: | Saint John's Episcopal Church | | | | Dates: | 1909-1984 | | | | Abstract: | Saint John's Episcopal Church is a congregation which maintains the oldest church edifice in Cleveland, Ohio, the group splitting off from Trinity Parish when it moved from Ohio City to Cleveland's east side in 1826. In the late 1960s, the congregation merged with the Inner City Protestant Parish, an interdenominational group of congregations which met at St. John's and other churches during the 1950s and 1960s. The church is also known as St. John's Historic Episcopal Church. The collection consists of minutes of the trustees and parish council, financial information, administrative records, documents pertaining to the restoration of the church building, and files relating to the parish history. The collection pertains to the administrative functions of a prominent Cleveland parish, its efforts to restore the church edifice, and its involvement in ecumenical and reform movements, from the 1920s to the 1980s. | | | | Call #: | MS 4371 | | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Saint John's Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Conservation and restoration. | Historic buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Conservation and restoration. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history -- Sources. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 49 | Title: | Hope-Wesley United Methodist Church Records
| | | | Creator: | Hope-Wesley United Methodist Church | | | | Dates: | 1851-1969 | | | | Abstract: | Hope-Wesley United Methodist Church was formed in 1973, in Cleveland, Ohio, by the merger of Hope United Methodist and Wesley Methodist churches. Hope United was formed in 1967 by the merger of Emanuel Evangelical United Brethren (est. 1865) and First Evangelical United Brethren (est. 1854), two early German churches. Wesley Methodist was formed in 1947 by the merger of St. Paul's (est. 1853) and Franklin Ave. (est. 1833) Methodist Episcopal churches. the collection consists of minutes, reports, financial records, legal documents, marriage licenses, guest books, transfers, correspondence, church histories, programs, bulletins, publications, and registers of births, baptisms, marriages and deaths of the five predecessor churches of Hope Wesley-United Methodist Church. | | | | Call #: | MS 3583 | | | | Extent: | 8.30 linear feet (20 containers and 4 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Methodist Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Methodist Church. | Methodist Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Methodists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Methodists, German -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Baptismal certificates. | Marriage records -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Necrologies. | German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 50 | Title: | Fidelity Baptist Church Records
| | | | Creator: | Fidelity Baptist Church | | | | Dates: | 1892-1975 | | | | Abstract: | Fidelity Baptist Church is a Cleveland, Ohio, church organized in 1891, as Fidelity Free Will Baptist Church. In 1892 it became Fidelity Baptist Church. In answer to changing social conditions in the neighborhood during the 1950s and 1960s the church became involved in several community welfare organizations. The collection consists of minutes, financial records, programs, membership records, constitutions, agreements, Sunday School records, legal records, baptism and death records (1892-1912), miscellaneous files, and records documenting the church's work with community welfare organizations, including records of the Cleveland Area Church Council and the Inner City Protestant Parish. | | | | Call #: | MS 3648 | | | | Extent: | 5.80 linear feet (7 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Fidelity Baptist Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Baptismal certificates. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Necrologies. | Church and social problems -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Local church councils. | Community welfare councils -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 51 | Title: | Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, The Young People's Congregation
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| | | | Creator: | Anshe Chsed Fairmount Temple, The Young People's Congregation | | | | Dates: | 1956-2002 | | | | Abstract: | The Young People's Congregation was a congregation within Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple (Beachwood, Ohio) for younger members of the temple. Activities include services for young families, drama productions, social get-togethers, community outreach and interfaith programs, youth education and enrollment in the religious school, publication of a newsletter, The Mosaic, and the Free-a-Family program to help Soviet Jewry. The collection consists of audio tapes, awards, correspondence, clippings, flyers, lists of members, financial records, programs, newsletters, play scripts, photograph album, posters, and a scrapbook. | | | | Call #: | MS 4995 | | | | Extent: | 2.11 linear feet (2 containers and one oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Anshe Chesed Congregation (Cleveland, Ohio) | Young People's Congregation. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jewish youth -- Religious life -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Reform Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church work with youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Youth in the ecumenical movement -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jewish drama | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 52 | Title: | University Circle United Methodist Church Records
| | | | Creator: | University Circle United Methodist Church | | | | Dates: | 1839-2010 | | | | Abstract: | The University Circle United Methodist Church, formerly known as Epworth-Euclid United Methodist Church, is descended from the earliest Methodist societies in Cleveland, Ohio, having been formed in 1919 from 2 historic congregations: Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church and Epworth Memorial Church. For over 60 years the congregation has occupied a landmark building in Cleveland's University Circle neighborhood, nicknamed the "Holy Oil Can" because of its tall copper spire. The Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church began with Methodist classes at Doan's Corners in 1831. A church building, known as Doan Street Methodist Episcopal Church, was constructed in 1837 on Doan (East 105th) Street. A second building was built in 1870 and razed in 1885. In 1887 a new building went up on Euclid Avenue at Oakdale (East 93rd), and the church became known as Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1919-1920, the Euclid Avenue and Epworth Memorial congregations merged, creating the Epworth-Euclid Methodist Church at East 107th Street and Chester Avenue. In 2010, First United Methodist Church and Epworth-Euclid United Methodist Church merged to become University Circle United Methodist Church. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, annual reports, appraisals, attendance records, audits, budgets, bulletins, bylaws, certificates, charters, church histories, committee records, constitutions, contracts, correspondence, deeds, drawings, estates and bequests, financial records and statements, floor plans, guest books, handbooks, inventories, ledgers, legal records, magazine articles, manuals, membership records, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, notes, orders of worship/service, pamphlets, programs, publicity records, recipe books, reports, rosters, scrapbooks, sermons, Sunday School records, and wills. | | | | Call #: | MS 5172 | | | | Extent: | 51.65 linear feet (58 containers, 3 oversize folders and 114 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Church buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Epworth League (U.S.) | Epworth Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Epworth-Euclid Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | First Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Methodist Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Methodists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | University Circle United Methodist Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Women in church work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Religion | Genealogy
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 53 | Title: | Saint Teresa Holiness Science Church Records
| | | | Creator: | Saint Teresa Holiness Science Church | | | | Dates: | 1978-1983 | | | | Abstract: | St. Teresa's Holiness Science Church is an African-American church founded in Cleveland, Ohio, by Jennie Benson Vaughn in 1950, growing to a membership of 300 within three months. Other churches were established in Nashville, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, and Camden, New Jersey, in the 1970s. Her husband, Frank Willis Vaughn, served as assistant pastor. The church was affiliated with the Holiness Science Organization, Inc. and accepted its belief regarding scientific proof for communication with the dead. The collection consists of organizational materials, correspondence, programs, clippings, a cookbook, and a biography of the Reverend Jennie B. Vaughn, the founder. The collection pertains primarily to Rev. Vaughn, her religious beliefs and her Cleveland, Ohio, congregation in the 1970s and 1980s, but also includes some records of the Nashville congregation, particularly church programs and a church sponsored cookbook. In addition, a constitution and covenant and statement of beliefs of the Holiness Science Organization, Inc. are included. | | | | Call #: | MS 4363 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Vaughn, Jennie Benson. | Vaughn, Frank Willis, d. 1981. | Saint Teresa Holiness Science Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Saint Teresa Holiness Science Church (Nashville, Tenn.) | Holiness Science Organization. | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church records and registers -- Tennessee -- Nashville. | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American churches -- Tennessee -- Nashville. | Holiness churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Holiness churches -- Tennessee -- Nashville. | Spiritualism. | Cookery, Afro-American. | Home economics -- Tennessee -- Nashville. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history -- Sources. | Nashville (Tenn.) -- Church history -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 54 | Title: | Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church records, 1843-1994
| | | | Creator: | Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | | | | | Schwan, Henry C., 1818-1905 | | | | | Schuknecht, C.T. | | | | Dates: |
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| | | | Call #: | Microfilm (Cab. 54:2) | | | | Extent: | 24 reels of microfilm. | | | | Subjects: | Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Zion Lutheran School (Cleveland, Ohio) | Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States | Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod | Mount Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Garfield Heights, Ohio) | Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (South Euclid, Ohio) | Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Westlake, Ohio) | Saint Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Shaker Heights, Ohio) | Lutherans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Lutherans, German -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Lutheran church buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Churches Ohio Cleveland | Germans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Religious life | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Lutheran Church -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Church schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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