Found 3 collections related to Methodist Episcopal Church

Richard Pollard (1829-1908) was an insurance agent in Lynchburg, Virginia, and a trader during the 1850s in the Chinese import/export business. He served in the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War and was active in the Court St. Methodist Episcopal Church in Lynchburg after the war. In 1908 his daughter, Bettie Pollard Glass, founded the Pollard and Glass insurance agency in Lynchburg with Anna L. Jones. Collection consists of Pollard's business papers and correspondence and other papers of his family and related families in Lynchburg. Business papers, 1840s-1909, include correspondence, documents relating to Pollard's insurance career, notes and accounts concerning the China trade, and diaries describing his church activities and spiritual development. Family correspondence, 1840s-1917, is chiefly that of Richard Pollard and members of his immediate and extended family and includes letters from family members serving in the Confederate Army. Also, essays and diaries by family members, photographs, clippings and other printed matter. Diaries include account of naval cruise to Europe during 1866-1867 kept by one of the officers (relation to Pollard family not known). less

William Henry Austin was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Warwick, NY, later of the Highland Avenue Methodist Church of Ossining, NY. The William Henry Austin Papers consist of registers of members, marriages, baptisms, deaths, lists of clergy, etc., from Methodist churches in Dutchess County, New York, 1873-1949, and scrapbooks of clippings from local newspapers, often related to religion and the ministry, 1930-1950. Church records include those of the New Hamburgh, Carthage Landing, and Chelsea Methodist Episcopal churches. In addition to the clippings and printed matter Austin collected, his papers include a miscellaneous file of his notes; a roster of soldiers of the 149th Co., Sullivan County, 1919; a small amount of correspondence; and a few completed Quarterly Conference Roll and Record forms for Chelsea, New York, 1947-1955. less