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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

First Baptist Church

A church in Union County, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1921 and 1921.

The line reading First Baptist Church in the 1921 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1921 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1921First Baptist Churchthe scanned index
1921Baptist Church (colored)the scanned index

How the name was read

Each atlas was set in type by a different hand and scanned decades later, so the same establishment comes back spelled differently. Every reading below was produced by the recogniser from the sheets; none was corrected or invented. They are published so a search for any of them finds this page.

First Baptist Church
Baptist Church (colored)

Named in the 1915 county history

The history of Union County was published 6 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Charles Parrott, a son of Charles and Mary (Bown) Parrott, was born in Wiltshire, England, December 26, 1857. His parents, who were born, reared and married in England, moved to Ireland in 1867, ^^'^ lived in Cork county until 1870, when they came to the United States, and for a few months lived near Bellpoint, near Delaware, Ohio. In the fall of 1870 they located in Dover township. Union county, where they lived the remainder of their days. The mother died January 31, 1903. There were nine children bom to Charles Parrott, Sr., and wife: Mrs. Elizabeth J. Meyers, of Delaware county, Ohio; ]\Irs. Lucy Mary Hallett, who came to this country with her parents and later went back to England to take care of her grandmother, and while there was married, in 1873, to Mr.

Read the chapter on Jerome Township.

Named in the same survey

6 establishments

The surveyors walked Union County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Erie R. R. Depots in the 1921 atlasErie R. R. Depotdepot1921
The index line reading High School, The in the 1921 atlasHigh Schoolschool1921
The index line reading Opera House in the 1921 atlasOpera Houseopera house1921
The index line reading Presbyterian Church in the 1921 atlasPresbyterian Churchchurch1921
The index line reading Public School in the 1921 atlasPublic Schoolschool1921
The index line reading Villa Hotel, The in the 1921 atlasVilla Hotel, ._hotel1921

Other church in the atlases

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Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Union County, with the years each one appears.

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Union County, Ohio, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.