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Fait partie de Congregational Church (Victor, Iowa) records 1883-1933
Fait partie de Congregational Church (Victor, Iowa) records 1883-1933
Fait partie de Congregational Church (Victor, Iowa) records 1883-1933
Fait partie de Congregational Church (Victor, Iowa) records 1883-1933
Folders: #1 Checks and receipts (found folded into the account book), 1916-20 #2 Certificate of Association, deeds, mortgages, 1883-97 #3 Correspondence, minutes, insurance information, 1887-1922 Ledgers/Notebooks: #1 Record of the Congregational Church of Christ in Victor, Iowa, 1883-94. Includes minutes of meetings; letters from pastors inserted in book. Highlights: • Nov. 1, 1883: first minister (p. 55) • Jan. 7, 1884: annual meeting (p. 57) • Jan. 1884: sexton's duties (p. 59) • Aug. 11, 1884: discussion regarding the salary for a pastor ("impossible for the Victor members to raise over $200.00 towards the salary") (p. 67) • May 1885: consideration of engaging Rev. W.L. Coleman of Grinnell as pastor for six months (p. 73) • Nov. 6, 1885: Rev. J.M. Bowers [Bowens?] accepts offer to preach for six months (p. 75) • May 28, 1886: Mr. H.L. Marsh accepts call to the pastorate for one year (p. 81) • Sept. 1, 1888: Rev. James Rowe engaged for one year (p. 91) • Dec. 2, 1889: annual meeting (p. 95); first parsonage (p. 96) • Dec. 1892 annual meeting (p. 105) • Dec. 30, 1893: annual meeting (p. 113) • Sept. 1894: William B. Payne accepts pastorate (letter between p. 116-117) • Dec. 1, 1894: annual meeting (p. 118) • Lists of members, 1883-94 (p. 122-141) #2 The second record book of the First Congregational Church of Victor, Iowa, 1895-98. Includes minutes from meetings; letters from pastors who received a call from the congregation are inserted in the book. Highlights: • Dec. 14, 1895: annual meeting ("parsonage full of debt") • Dec. 19, 1896: annual meeting • between March and July 1897: pages cut out ("expunged") • Jan. 3, 1898: annual meeting • Mar. 30, 1898: addition to parsonage
Congregational Church (Victor, Iowa) records 1883-1933
The records include ledgers and notebooks with financial information and minutes of meetings of the Church and of groups affiliated with the Church: the DK Society, the Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society, and the Ladies' Social Society. There are files of correspondence and legal and financial records.
Fait partie de Congregational Church (Victor, Iowa) records 1883-1933
Ledgers/Notebooks: #3 Treasurer's book, Congregational Church, 1913-19. (D.K. Ross, Treasurer) #4 [Secretary's book for DK Society?], 1912-16 #5 Secretary's records for DK Society, 1917-28. Includes minutes of meetings and lists of members. Inserted in the book are programs for: Brotherhood Dramatic Club (Dec. 22, 1916), Ordination and Installation of Rev. W.W. Maxwell (Mar. 12, 1918), Weekly Calendar (Feb. 11, 1917), National "Every Member Drive" (Dec. 28, 1919) #6 Treasurer's book, DK Society, 1908-20 [Note: When received, book had some sort of grass or grain stems pressed into book.] #7 Secretary's book, Home Missionary Society, 1894-98 #8 Home and Foreign Missionary Society, 1899-1917 #9 Secretary's book of the Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society, Congregational Church, Victor, Iowa, 1918-26 #10 Secretary's book of the Ladies' Social Society, Congregational Church, 1893-1929 #11 Treasurer's book of Ladies' [Social?] of Congregational Church, 1909-17 #12 Secretary's book of Women's Missionary Society of Congregational Church, 1928-33 #13 Account book with Victor Savings Bank (J.E. Bach, Treasurer, Congregational Church), 1916-19