Title: North Dakota Baptist State Convention Records
Dates: 1865-1982
Collection Number: 10468
Quantity: 24 feet / 4 rolls microfilm #13691-13694
Abstract: Minutes, convention proceedings, correspondence, memoranda, subject files, congregation files, pastor files, audit reports, list of pastors, ledgers, journals, convention files, scrapbooks, bulletins, histories, photographs, and publications. Records relate to the administration of the Baptist State Convention and churches, missionary work, women's organizations, youth camps, conventions, and ministerial affairs.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired the North Dakota Baptist State Convention Records as a gift from the Convention in September 1985. This collection was processed and the inventory prepared by Grace Wanttaja, Bonnie C. Sheldon, and Kari Rombs Kohlhoff, December 1987.
Property rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
Copyrights: The North Dakota Baptist State Convention has dedicated such copyrights as it possesses in this collection to the public. Consideration of all other copyrights is the responsibility of the author and publisher.
Access: This collection is open under the rules and regulations of the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Citation: Researchers are requested to cite the collection title, collection number, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota in all footnote and bibliographic references.
Transfer: Five feet of material was removed from the North Dakota Baptist State Convention Records and transferred to the appropriate collection management area of the State Archives. Three feet consisted of publications such as books and booklets concerning congregational and Baptist histories, North Dakota Baptist Bulletins, various newsletters, and several newspapers. All publications were transferred to the library.
Two feet of photographic material were transferred to the Photo Archives. This material consisted of 1370 black and white photographs, 2 scrapbooks of black and white photographs, and 163 negatives. Subjects of the majority of photographs include both older and newer church buildings; pastors and families; state and national conventions; architectural styles, e.g. dugout homes, log cabins, and Russian thatched roofs; Indian tipis; Sunday School Classes; Church activities, e.g. picnics, camping, and meetings; and the 1934 Golden Jubilee.
Four oversize items were removed from the subject files, placed in an oversize folder, and stored flat. These oversize documents include a 1928 Baptist Church history chart, a missions budget poster, a missions quota poster, and a certificate of corporation for the Rolla Baptist Church, 1903.
Several ephemera items, a lapel button from the 1929 Convention in Fargo and several postcards--one of the Golden Jubilee cake, were transferred to the ephemera collection.
One audio tape, "A First Look at the New American Baptist Curriculum Plan," was removed and is accessible as an audio collection.
Related Material in State Archives collections:
Manuscripts: Ashley Baptist Church Membership Register, 1896-1976, 1 microfilm roll, 10402. Ashley, North Dakota. Includes church minutes, 1954-1976.
Ashley First Baptist Church Records, 1954-1977, 1 microfilm roll, 10401. Ashley, North Dakota. Includes membership record, church minutes, and constitution and bylaws.
Berlin Baptist Church Cemetery Records, 1931-1961, 1 microfilm roll, 10403. Berlin, North Dakota. Records include letters and a plat book.
Church History Collection, ca. 1930's, 1 ft., 10086. Contains, among other things, photographs, newspaper clippings, and histories of various Baptist Churches in North Dakota.
First Baptist Church Records, 1881-1900, .5 ft., 10077. Bathgate, North Dakota. Consists of minutes, treasurer's account book, financial ledger, and minutes of the Fuller Regular Baptist Church.
Benjamin Stites Terry Manuscript, October 4, 1923, 1 item, 20447. Consists of a transcript of an address before the Baptist State Convention at Fargo, North Dakota, entitled "The History of One Frontier Family." The manuscript provides the history of the family of Elijah Stites Terry, a Baptist missionary to Dakota Territory.
Venturia Baptist Church Records, 1912-1964, 1 microfilm roll, 10393. Venturia, North Dakota. Consists of minutes, baptism register, annual reports, membership record, burial register, and a church history.
HISTORICAL SKETCH
The history of the North Dakota Baptist State Convention begins with the first Baptist missionaries to what is now North Dakota. Elijah Stites Terry and James Tanner arrived in Walhalla in March, 1852, to establish a mission among the Indians. Terry and Tanner proposed to build a log structure in which they could conduct services and teach Native Americans. On June 27, 1852, while in the woods preparing timber for the building, Terry was shot and scalped by a band of Sioux Indians. Soon after, James Tanner left Walhalla and the proposed mission. Baptists did not return to missionary activity in present-day North Dakota for nearly a quarter of a century.
The next attempt by Baptists to evangelize the area, though less dramatic, was successful. To meet the needs of recent immigrants, the First Baptist Church in Fargo was organized on January 27, 1879. The ethnic groups which settled in North Dakota, e.g. Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Germans, and Russians, immigrated in numbers large enough to enable them to establish their own ethnic churches and associations. Despite the value placed on local organizations, the North Dakota Baptist Association was organized in Grand Forks on November 5, 1881. Three years later, in early November, 1884, the North Dakota Baptist State Convention was organized, its constitution adopted, and officers elected. The Convention's object, as stated in its constitution, was "to promote religious and educational interests in North Dakota." Power of the Convention to interfere with or implicate the independence of member churches was expressly prohibited by the constitution. For nearly its first decade the organization of a Convention seemed insignificant. As the churches grew in strength, and a few of them became self-supporting, the need and value of the Convention were more fully appreciated. In 1892 a plan of cooperation between the Convention and the American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS)--set-up to finance the "Mission of the West" and dependent largely on Baptists of the eastern United States--was adopted. Incorporation in 1911, in addition to several amendments to the Convention's constitution, allowed the Convention to act as a legal entity. Eleven years later, on March 1, 1922, the North Dakota Baptist State Convention changed its relationship with the ABHMS from a "dependent state," to become an "independent convention." The North Dakota Baptist State Convention cooperates with the Conference of Churches and participates in the United Ministries Higher Education Commission. Since 1969, the North Dakota Convention has contracted with and provided the secretariat and other ministries for the South Dakota Baptist State Convention.
Opportunities found in railroad expansion, wheat farming and cattle ranching, coal mining, and oil production brought people to North Dakota, but economic depression and drought had often brought the reverse. By 1905, twenty-five of the churches established under the leadership of Rev. G. W. Huntley were extinct. Early church leaders blamed the lack of money to build church edifices, but in later years, churches disappeared due to dwindling population in rural areas and small towns. Also, some congregations chose to be independent of the convention. Dr. Fred E. Stockton, General Baptist Superintendent of North Dakota from 1920 to 1938 and author of North Dakota Baptist Half-Century Book, 1934, listed one hundred and seventy-one churches that had been organized in North Dakota with approximately one hundred alive and related to the Convention in 1934. By 1984 nineteen churches made up the North Dakota Baptist State Convention. Those nineteen local churches are grouped into two associations: the Sheyenne River Association, formerly known as the North Dakota Association, and the Northwest Association. Baptist congregations still belonging to the North Dakota Baptist State Convention are listed below.
Sheyenne River Association
Bismarck First Baptist Church
Ellendale First Baptist Church
Fargo First Baptist Church
Grand Forks Federated Church
Lisbon First Baptist Church
Rutland First Baptist Church
Northwest Association
Berthold Baptist Church
Bottineau First Baptist Church
Dickinson Immanuel Baptist Church
Drake Baptist Church
Glenburn First Baptist Church
Greatstone Baptist Church
Kenmare First Baptist Church
Kief Liberty Baptist Church
Killdeer Baptist Church
Minot Immanuel Baptist Church
Powers Lake Bethel Baptist Church
Sawyer First Baptist Church
Stanley First Baptist Church
Sources:
Shanafelt, T. M. Baptist History of North Dakota 1879-1904, Huron, SD: Huronite Printing Co., 1904.
Shoemaker, JoAnne and Don Shoemaker. North Dakota Baptist State Convention 1884-1984: A History, Barre, VT: Northlight Studio Press, Inc., 1985.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The North Dakota Baptist State Convention Records date from 1865 to 1982 and measure 24 feet. This collection documents the persons involved with and the activities pursued by the Convention to achieve its objective, promoting religious and educational interests in North Dakota. The North Dakota Baptist State Convention Records are divided into two record groups and contain eight record series. The first record group, State records, contains the following record series: Series 1, convention proceedings, 1882-1982, 2 ft.; series 2, minutes, 1899-1967, 1/3 ft.; series 3, subject files, 1875-1967, 2 2/3 ft. and one oversize volume; series 4, congregation files, 1890-1958, 5 ft.; series 5, personnel files, 1919-1961, 5 2/3 ft.; series 6, financial records, including audits (1924-1969, 1/2 ft.), ledgers (1920-1968, 1/2 ft.), and journals (1911-1967, 1 1/3 ft. and 8 oversize volumes); and series 7, scrapbooks, 1865-1965, 1/4 ft. and one oversize volume. The second record group, congregation (local) records, measures 1/4 ft. and dates from 1888 to 1955.
Series 1, convention proceedings, measures 2 ft. and dates from 1882-1982. The series consists of bound volumes of the North Dakota Baptist Annual which contains minutes of North Dakota Baptist State Conventions; Baptist Ministerial Union of North Dakota minutes; North Dakota Baptist Young People's Union minutes; Sunday School Conventions minutes; Sheyenne River Association minutes; Northwest Association minutes; ethnic Baptist Conference minutes, including Norwegian and German Conferences; governing documents of the above organizations including articles of incorporation, bylaws, and constitutions; lists of Convention staff, officers, boards of managers, committees, councils, and representatives; church letters; financial reports; church statistics; church directory; convention anniversaries; ministerial data; and obituary notices. The major focus of the records in Series 1 is the progress of the Convention's evangelical mission both within and outside of the church. The series is arranged chronologically.
Series 2, minutes, measures 1/3 ft. and dates from 1899 to 1967. Contained in this series are minutes of the Convention's Executive Committee and Board of Managers, denoted by "Minutes" in the box/folder list, as well as minutes of the Sheyenne River Association, and minutes of women's and men's organizations within the Convention. Some files also contain correspondence. The focus of this series is administrative, primarily concerned with applications for aid, appropriations, appointments to committees, and planning for church programs and events. Arrangement for this series is chronological.
Series 3, subject files, dates from 1875 to 1967 and measures 2 2/3 ft. and one oversize volume. The series consists of agenda, correspondence, newspaper clippings, typewritten manuscripts, e.g. biographies and articles, pamphlets, programs, and reports. Included are files on congregational histories, missions and missionaries, pastors' monthly reports, church statistics, the Elijah Terry Memorial at Walhalla, Women's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society reports, and an oversize volume of a summary of reports. Series 3 is arranged alphabetically by key word.
Series 4, congregation files, measures 5 ft. and dates from 1890 to 1958. The majority of files consist of correspondence, though files also contain newspaper clippings, programs, and reports. This series is concerned mainly with financial matters, e.g. loans to churches from the American Baptist Home Mission Society, mortgages on church properties, and upkeep of church properties. The congregation files are arranged alphabetically by place name.
Series 5, personnel files, dates from 1919 to 1961 and measures 5 2/3 ft. The Convention's personnel files consist of correspondence and telegrams between officers of the North Dakota Baptist State Convention and pastors of member congregations. This series covers a variety of topics including salaries for pastors and missionaries, collections for State Conventions, pastoral vacancies and recommendations to fill vacancies, travel expenses for pastors, and special meetings and church events. Arrangement of the personnel files is alphabetical.
Series 6, financial records, consists of audit reports, ledgers, and journals. Audit reports of the North Dakota Baptist State Convention measure 1/2 ft. and date from 1924 to 1969. Also included are a 1965 audit of the Northwest Baptist Home Society and 1969 recommendations to the Convention board of managers. Information provided by Convention audit reports may include: general operating fund receipts and disbursements, church edifice receipts and disbursements, permanent and trust fund balances, annuity fund balances, investments, loans to churches, real estate and buildings owned, real estate and buildings equities, insurance in force, Convention edifice funds, Home Mission edifice funds, Camp Bentley funds, Home Mission edifice fund mortgages, and missionary funds. The audit reports are arranged chronologically.
The ledgers measure ½ ft. and date from 1920 to 1968. Included are ledgers for individual congregations, missionary giving, the Convention, missions, and the Forward for Christ Campaign, as well as two general ledgers. Information found in these ledgers may include credits, debits, salaries paid, expenses paid, loans, interest insurance, annuities, cash accounts, investments, and edifice funds. The ledgers are arranged chronologically, with foldered material preceding bound volumes.
The journals date from 1911 to 1967 and measure 1 1/3 ft. and 8 oversize volumes. Included are four treasurer's journals, an operating accounts journal, one general journal, a Youth Fellowship journal, four cash books/journals, one journal of apportionments, a general operating and edifice accounts journal, one promotional expense account journal, and one journal of donations received. Arranged chronologically with foldered material preceding bound volumes, the journals contain information on salaries paid, insurance, annuities, general operating funds, trust funds, permanent funds, interest, costs of bulletins and literature, refunds paid, edifice funds, relief funds, budgets, and donations.
Series 7, scrapbooks, date from 1865-1965 and measure 1/4 ft. and one oversize volume. Consisting of three scrapbooks which contain clippings, some photographs, and several programs and bulletins, this series focuses on theological issues, mainly in the form of letters to the editor. Several clippings of obituaries and special meetings are also included. The photographs found in one scrapbook are black and white and of various subjects such as summer camp, missionaries, and the annual institute for pastors. The scrapbooks are arranged chronologically with foldered material preceding bound volumes.
Record group two, congregation records, measures 1/4 ft. and dates from 1888 to 1955. This series consists of several local congregation record books; those congregations are Aneta, Coleharbor, and the Stillwell branch of Langdon. Minutes, Sunday School class books, and correspondence may be found in the congregation records. Administration of the local congregations is the major subject. The congregation records are arranged alphabetically by place name.
BOX / FOLDER INVENTORY
Box 1:
1 Annual Convention Proceedings 1882-1894
2 Annual Convention Proceedings 1886-1898
3 Annual Convention Proceedings 1887
4 Annual Convention Proceedings 1891
5 Annual Convention Proceedings 1899-1904
6 Annual Convention Proceedings 1899-1904
7 Annual Convention Proceedings 1905-1908
8 Annual Convention Proceedings 1909-1913
9 Annual Convention Proceedings 1914-1920
10 Annual Convention Proceedings 1921-1930
Box 2:
1 Annual Convention Proceedings 1891-1910
2 Annual Convention Proceedings 1912-1929
3 Annual Convention Proceedings 1930-1939
4 Annual Convention Proceedings 1940-1949
5 Annual Convention Proceedings 1950-1959
6 Annual Convention Proceedings 1960-1970
7 Annual Convention Proceedings 1967-1978
Box 3:
1 Annual Convention Proceedings 1979
2 Annual Convention Proceedings 1980
3 Annual Convention Proceedings 1981
4 Annual Convention Proceedings 1982
5 Minutes 1899-1910
6 Minutes 1915-1924
7 Minutes 1958-1961
8 Minutes 1961-1966
9 Minutes, Sheyenne River Association 1942-1967
10 Minutes, Women's and Men's Organization 1945-1960
Subject files
11 American Baptist National Conventions 1914-1957
12 Associations 1945-1958
13 Bulletin Post Office Reports 1952-1964
14 Churches for New Frontiers 1954-1956
15 Clippings 1945-1965
16 Colporter-Missionary Department 1939-1941
17 Congregational Data 1950
18 Congregational Histories 1933
19 Congregational Histories 1933-1936
20 Congregational Histories` 1907-1939
21 Congregational Histories 1929-1942
22 Congregational Histories 1921-1957
23 Convention 1920-1937
24 Convention 1942-1948
Box 4:
1 Convention 1922-1953
2 Convention Headquarters 1961-1963
3 Correspondence 1926-1931
4 Correspondence 1930-1932
5 Correspondence 1931-1933
6 Correspondence 1919-1949
7 Correspondence 1923-1957
8 Correspondence Concerning Histories 1929-1930
9 Correspondence Concerning Histories 1930-1935
10 Correspondence Concerning Histories 1920-1958
11 Dedications and Installations 1948-1966
12 Edifice Funds, Home Mission Society 1920-1932
13 Evangelism n.d.
14 Foreign Languages, Baptist Bodies Using 1938
15 Golden Anniversary 1925-1938
16 Golden Jubilee 1934-1935
17 Historical Documents 1927-1951
18 Historical Documents 1926-1954
19 Men's Work, State 1966-1967
20 Mimeograph and Circular Letters 1924-1954
21 Miscellaneous 1921-1949
22 Miscellaneous 1929-1955
23 Missionary Applications 1958-1961
24 Missionary Education Reports 1925-1930
Box 5:
1 Missionary Publicity 1929
2 Missionary Quota Reports 1932
3 Missions and Missionaries 1945-1951
4 Missions and Missionaries 1961-1967
5 Missions, Rural and Indian 1948-1954
6 Mormonism 1962
7 Mortgage Assignments 1922
8 Names Under Consideration 1927-1958
9 Pastoral Roster 1875-1960
10 Pastors' Monthly Reports 1957-1958
11 Plays, Stage and Radio n.d.
12 Promotion 1940-1955
13 Publicity 1925-1940
14 Statistics, Church 1957-1960
15 Summer Assembly 1941
16 Terry, Elijah, Memorial 1923-1927
17 Terry, Elijah, Memorial 1923-1927
18 Walhalla Memorial 1927
19 Women's Missionary Society 1922-1937
20 Women's Missionary Society 1937-1945
21 Women's Missionary Society 1947-1967
22 Women's Missionary Society Reports 1917-1933
Box 6:
1 Youth Fellowship 1947-1959
2 Youth of North Dakota 1937-1941
Congregation files
3 Action 1920-1921
4 Aneta 1931-1944
5 Appam 1929
6 Barton 1919-1936
7 Bathgate 1919-1935
8 Beaulieu 1925-1934
9 Benedict 1921-1922
10 Bismarck First 1926-1954
11 Bismarck First 1955-1957
12 Bismarck Second (Colored) 1920-1928
13 Bismarck Swedish 1926
14 Bottineau 1921-1957
15 Butte 1932-1957
16 Calvin 1916-1939
17 Calvin Property 1940-1957
18 Cavalier 1915-1951
19 Coleharbor 1916-1949
20 Cooperstown 1920-1927
21 Crystal 1917-1958
22 Deapolis 1926-1951
23 Devils Lake Mt. Zion 1922
24 Dogden 1915-1923
25 Donnybrook 1921-1935
26 Drake 1944-1957
27 Drayton 1920-1949
28 Ellendale 1918-1957
29 Esmond 1921-1932
30 Fairmount Parsonage 1923-1950
Box 7:
1 Fargo Calvary 1926-1949
2 Fargo First 1921-1954
3 Fargo First 1945-1957
4 Fargo Immanuel 1921-1925
5 Fargo Swedish 1920-1925
6 Flasher 1932-1936
7 German Churches 1922-1926
8 German Churches 1919-1957
9 Glenburn 1921-1957
10 Grafton 1919-1937
11 Grand Forks First 1918-1925
12 Grand Forks First 1914-1944
13 Grand Forks First 1945-1957
14 Grand Forks Scandinavian 1921-1935
15 Guthrie (now Drake) 1920-1942
16 Hamilton 1914-1952
17 Hillsboro 1916-1937
18 Jamestown 1890-1927
19 Jamestown 1926-1932
20 Jamestown 1933-1956
Box 8:
1 Kenmare 1919-1923
2 Kenmare 1921-1948
3 Kief Russian 1949-1950
4 Killdeer 1933-1956
5 Kulm 1919-1937
6 Langdon 1903-1927
7 Lidgerwood 1919-1923
8 Lisbon 1891-1957
9 Lone Tree 1920-1923
10 Lone Tree 1924-1937
11 Lone Tree 1940-1947
12 Mandan 1915-1932
13 Max Russian 1919
14 McClusky Prophet Mountain 1920-1934
15 Minnewaukan 1920-1929
16 Minot First 1920-1940
17 Minot First 1943-1953
18 Minot Immanuel 1953-1958
19 Minot Second (Colored) 1922-1954
20 Napoleon 1922-1957
21 New Rockford 1914
22 New Town 1951-1958
23 Newport 1922-1957
24 Niobe 1920-1954
25 Oakes 1924-1946
26 Page 1937-1958
27 Page First 1920-1950
28 Palermo 1920-1926
29 Park River 1920-1928
30 Park River 1929-1947
31 Plaza 1922-1926
Box 9:
1 Powers Lake 1915-1954
2 Powers Lake 1953-1958
3 Riverdale Project 1946-1955
4 Rolla 1919-1931
5 Roseglen 1921-1924
6 Roseglen 1924-1952
7 Rugby 1926-1932
8 Russian Churches 1933-1937
9 Russian Churches 1937-1944
10 Russian Churches 1944-1946
11 Russian Churches 1946-1953
12 Russian Conference 1922-1929
13 Russian Conference 1930-1933
14 Rutland 1920-1927
15 Rutland 1927-1944
16 Rutland 1946-1958
17 Ryder 1921-1931
18 Saline (near Glenburn) 1911-1947
19 Sanish 1921-1935
20 Sanish 1938-1951
21 Sawyer 1924-1927
22 Sawyer 1927-1958
23 Scranton Goldfield Baptist 1916-1917
24 Souris 1930-1936
25 St. Thomas 1921-1927
Box 10:
1 Stanley 1920-1938
2 Stanley 1938-1944
3 Stanley 1944-1957
4 Still Mission 1927-1928
5 Stillwell (near Langdon) 1903-1936
6 Tioga 1953-1958
7 Tioga Project 1953-1954
8 Tuttle 1925-1926
9 Valley City 1914-1925
10 Valley City 1926-1930
11 Valley City 1930
12 Valley City 1935-1946
13 Valley City 1946-1955
14 Van Hook 1928-1935
15 Vang 1920-1941
16 Velva 1920-1946
17 Walhalla 1920-1924
18 Westhope 1912-1922
19 Williston 1925-1944
20 Williston 1939-1951
21 Wilson 1920-1938
22 Zahl 1920-1938
23 Zahl 1940-1945
Personnel files
24 Anderson, Rev. A. G. 1925-1928
25 Anderson, Frank R. 1928-1931
Box 11:
1 Bibelheimer, Rev. A. W. 1945-1947
2 Bibelheimer, Rev. A. W. 1948-1949
3 Bibelheimer, Rev. A. W. 1950-1961
4 Breding, Rev. Olaf 1920-1932
5 Brown, Rev. C. F. 1926-1928
6 Brown, Rev. C. F. 1931-1932
7 Brown, Rev. C. F. 1932-1935
8 Brown, Rev. C. F. 1936-1938
9 Brown, Rev. C. F. 1939-1940
10 Brown, Rev. C. F. 1941-1942
11 Brown, Rev. C. F. 1933-1943
12 Bucknell, Rev. John 1923-1927
13 Bucknell, Rev. John 1931-1956
14 Carlson, Carl H. 1922-1923
15 Courts, Rev. R. 1928-1932
16 Crawford, Isabel 1921
17 Dodgson, Arthur S. 1929-1937
18 Dryden, Rev. J. G. 1922-1923
19 Ekstrom, Rev. P. O. 1922-1932
20 Entner, Chas. L. 1930-1933
21 Feldus, Rev. A. J. 1930-1936
22 Finwall, Rev. C. W. 1922-1932
23 Flaming, Rev. J. H. 1929-1953
24 Gamble, Rev. J. H. 1930-1936
Box 12:
1 Gregg, Rev. S. E. 1925-1930
2 Hallgrimson, Rev. O. H. 1926-1935
3 Hanson, Rev. Ray O. 1935
4 Hill, Rev. C. J. 1920-1922
5 Hill, Rev. C. J. 1925
6 Hill, Rev. C. J. 1926-1927
7 Hupp, Rev. J. M. 1928-1930
8 Jacobson, Rev. O. S. 1920-1932
9 Johnson, Rev. Howard 1928-1932
10 Johnson, Rev. L. R. 1921-1926
11 Johnson, Paul E. 1924-1929
12 Johnson, Reinhert J. 1926
13 Jordan, Dr. Edward F. 1920
14 Jorgenson, Rev. H. 1934-1935
15 Karns, Chester 1927
16 Kjenstad, Rev. B. 1921-1937
17 Koslow, Henry 1935-1937
18 Kruschwitz, Rev. Reuben 1954-1956
19 Larson, Rev. Ole 1923-1924
20 Lenning, Lloyd 1928-1930
21 Lorentzen, Rev. P. F. 1928-1929
22 Lorentzen, Rev. P. F. 1929-1932
23 Lorentzen, Rev. P. F. 1922-1934
24 Lowlow, Rev. C. C. 1924-1926
25 McBain, Rev. I. D. 1922-1932
26 McCoy, Rev. Noah E. 1923-1947
27 McDermid, Rev. J. 1919-1929
28 McGahey, A. A. 1921-1924
29 McKinnon, Rev. L. 1921-1932
30 Monnes, Rev. Erling 1922-1926
31 Monnes, Rev. Erling 1926-1927
32 Monnes, Rev. Erling 1927-1929
33 Monnes, Rev. Erling 1928-1930
Box 13:
1 Monnes, Rev. Erling 1929-1930
2 Monnes, Rev. Erling 1931-1932
3 Monnes, Rev. Erling 1933-1934
4 Monnes, Rev. Erling 1935-1939
5 Monnes, Rev. Erling 1936-1937
6 Monnes, Rev. Erling 1937-1952
7 Nelson, Rev. Kenneth 1935
8 Nesdoly, Rev. Nestor 1919-1921
9 Nesdoly, Rev. Nestor 1922-1925
10 Newcomb, Rev. George 1920-1929
11 Nystrom, Rev. Phillip E. 1923-1925
12 Nystrom, Rev. Phillip E. 1925-1926
13 Osborn, Rev. Willard 1930-1943
14 Peterson, Rev. A. E. 1920-1923
15 Peterson, Rev. Fredrick C. 1943-1945
16 Peterson, Rev. Fredrick C. 1943-1945
17 Pielstick, Rev. Don F. 1938-1950
18 Pilcher, H. B. 1922-1926
19 Pool, Rev. Wm. E. 1925-1927
20 Pool, Rev. Wm. E. 1928-1932
21 Preston, Rev. Roy 1946-1947
22 Rabine, Rev. Edwin 1928-1929
23 Radke, Rev. Walter C. 1937-1945
Box 14:
1 Rahn, Rev. Henry S. 1939-1945
2 Romick, Rev. Wilbur 1958-1959
3 Rothery, Rev. George 1945-1953
4 Rueb, Rev. Dan J. 1939-1943
5 Rueb, Rev. Dan J. 1943-1947
6 Rueb, Rev. Dan J. 1944-1945
7 Sandberg, Rev. LeRoy H. 1953-1957
8 Sanford, Rev. Arthur L. 1935-1937
9 Schmidt, Rev. Robert J. 1944-1947
10 Schock, Rev. Adolph 1921-1922
11 Schroeder, Rev. G. P. 1936-1938
12 Schroeder, Rev. G. P. 1937-1938
13 Schroeder, Rev. G. P. 1939-1940
14 Schroeder, Rev. G. P. 1941-1943
15 Seaquist, Rev. Carl J. 1941-1943
16 Sharp, Rev. W. E. 1920-1922
17 Siemers, Rev. John A. 1942-1944
18 Siemers, Rev. John A. 1945-1947
19 Simko, Rev. Andrew 1938-1943
20 Sivertson, Olaf 1923-1925
21 Smith, Rev. Gordon C. V. 1944-1948
22 Spiller, Rev. J. R. 1923-1931
23 Sprong, Rev. G. E. 1924-1926
24 Stackhouse, Rev. Aaron 1943-1945
25 Start, Rev. J. N. 1919-1926
Box 15:
1 Steffenson, Rev. John 1941-1945
2 Stockton, Rev. F. E. 1920-1938
3 Stolberg, Rev. L. M. 1919-1920
4 Stolberg, Rev. L. M. 1921
5 Stolberg, Rev. L. M. 1922
6 Stolberg, Rev. L. M. 1922-1924
7 Stolberg, Rev. L. M. 1925-1930
8 Stolberg, Rev. L. M. 1923
9 Stull, Rev. Chas. W. 1928-1931
10 Stull, Rev. Chas. W. 1932-1936
11 Stump, Rev. John S. 1920-1925
12 Stump, Rev. John S. 1925-1928
13 Summer Pastors 1949-1953
14 Swanson, Rev. F. H. 1936-1943
15 Swanson, Rev. F. H. 1944-1948
16 Swenson, Rev. Birger 1935-1947
17 Teske, Rev. Arthur Wm. 1944-1948
18 Thorlakson, Rev. B. H. 1927-1930
19 Thorlakson, Rev. B. H. 1931
Box 16:
1 Thorlakson, Rev. B. H. 1931-1934
2 Thorlakson, Rev. B. H. 1935-1937
3 Thorlakson, Rev. B. H. 1937-1938
4 West, Rev. North E. 1939-1945
5 Weyhrauch, Rev. W. A. 1922-1924
6 Widen, Rev. Henry F. 1931-1938
7 Wiegand, Rev. Roy E. 1942-1947
8 Wiegand, Rev. Roy E. 1948-1949
9 Wiegand, Rev. Roy E. 1951-1954
10 Wiegand, Rev. Roy E. 1954-1955
11 Wiegand, Rev. Roy E. 1950-1956
12 Wiegand, Rev. Roy E. 1957-1960
13 Williams, Dr. C. C. 1920-1951
14 Wyrick, Rev. H. M. 1924-1941
15 Yeend, Rev. David 1955-1957
16 Young, Clifford Y. 1938-1958
Financial records
17 Audit 1924-1929
18 Audit 1930-1935
19 Audit 1936-1939
20 Audit 1940-1942
21 Audit 1943-1946
Box 17:
1 Audit 1947-1949
2 Audit 1950-1953
3 Audit 1954-1955
4 Audit 1956
5 Audit 1957-1960
6Audit 1961-1963
7 Audit 1964-1965
8 Audit 1966-1969
9 Congregational Ledger 1927-1939
10 Missionary Giving Ledger 1954-1959
11 Convention Ledger 1925-1961
12 Missions Ledger 1962-1968
13 Forward for Christ Campaign Ledger 1963-1968
14 Treasurer 1918-1937
15 Clippings Scrapbook 1880-1899
16 Ledger, General 1924-1927
17 Account Book 1920-1960
Box 18:
1 Operating Accounts 1924-1925
2 Journal, General 1930-1960
3 Youth Fellowship Journal 1947-1960
4 Clippings Scrapbooks 1865-1933
Congregation records
5 Aneta Record Book 1888-1900
6 Coleharbor Community Baptist Class Books 1953
7 Coleharbor Community Baptist Class Books 1953-1955
8 Coleharbor First Baptist Record Book 1932-1945
9 Coleharbor First Baptist Record Book 1936-1946
10 Stillwell Branch (of Langdon) Record 1900-1901
Box 19:
1 Cash Book 1943-1953
2 Cash Book 1953-1955
3 Cash Journal 1955-1961
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