St. Paul United Church of Christ (Lansing, Mich.) records, 1886-1998 (majority within 1940-1998)
6.3 linear feet — 1 oversize folder
6.3 linear feet — 1 oversize folder
The records of St. Paul United Church of Christ in Lansing, MI, consist of 6.2 linear feet and 1 oversize folder. The materials consist of administrative materials, publications, records of historic events, and several bound volumes of historic materials, including the church's constitution, council meeting minutes, meeting minutes and activities of various women's organizations, and photographs. Bound volumes through c.1920 are in German, reflecting the ethnic origins of the church. The records are arranged into eight series: History, Membership, Property, Administration, Bulletins and Newsletters, Women's Organizations, Sunday School, and Photographs. These materials reflect the evolution of the St. Paul's from a small, German church at the end of the 19th century into an urban church at the end of the 20th century. We know from historic accounts by members and from newsletters that a fire in 1978 destroyed some of the church's records, but there does not appear to be any documentation in the collection that details which records were destroyed.
Date | Event |
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1886-1888 | C.C. Haag |
1888-1889 | F. Macer |
1890-1890 | Paul Grob |
1890-1894 | C. Spathelf |
1896-1896 | L. Gross |
1898-1899 | J. Lindenmeyer |
1899-1903 | C. Zimmerman |
1903-1908 | E.H. Spathelf |
1908-1911 | P. Gehle |
1911-1917 | E.F. Lawrenz |
1919-1920 | Edwin F. Macer |
1920-1922 | B.E. Schalow |
1922-1928 | G.E. Krause |
1928-1940 | Alfred P. Hardt |
1941-1941 | Wm. Carpenter |
1941-1949 | Frank Rupnow |
1950-1953 | Robert Baumann |
1954-1963 | R.E. Eshmeyer |
1964-1966 | David R. Fisher |
1966-1978 | Claude Kelley |
1978-1981 | Theodor Tuenge |
1981-1990 | Roger Stutesman |
1990-1991 | D. Wenstrom |
1991-1993 | Rose Hermonat |
1993-1994 | Ann Slade |
1994-1994 | Melodee Smith |
1994-1998 | Douglas Asamoa |
6.3 linear feet — 1 oversize folder
26 linear feet — 1 oversize folder
This record group is comprised primarily of records of the associations and conferences that make up the United Church of Christ Michigan Conference. The records document the mergers between smaller conferences to make the larger ones of today. These records are largely made up of correspondence, minutes, agendas, conference materials, and programming information.
Besides records of the individual associations and conferences, the collection also contains an extensive amount of records from individual churches, which can be found in the "Records from individual churches" and the "Church files" series. Because their relationship to each other is unknown, these series were not combined. The "Church files" series are records that may have been stored by the Michigan Conference rather than the individual churches. The "Records from individual churches" concerns materials that belonged to the individual churches. Whether these churches belonged to the smaller associations that make up the Michigan Conference is unknown. Therefore, they were kept separate. More information on these series can be found in the individual series' description below.
The record group has been arranged into the following series: Michigan Conference; Associations and conferences; Woman's Home Missionary Union and related; Records from individual churches; Annual Meetings of Michigan Congregational Conference and of the United Church of Christ; Evangelical and Reformed Church; Church files; Photographs; Ministerial files; and Student ministry.
Current results range from 1840 to 2013