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First Congregational Church, Oberlin

A church in Oberlin, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1893 and 1922.

The line reading First Congregational Church in the 1893 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1893 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1893First Congregational Churchthe scanned index
1922Second Congregational Churchthe 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 Congregational Church
Second Congregational Church

Named in the 1879 county history

The history of Lorain County was published 14 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

According to the figures of Mr. Bradford Race, who was treasurer of the building committee, presented on tiiat occasion, the cost of the church was ten thousand, two hundretl and forty-four dollars and fourteen cents. Tlie churcii had jjreviously been named, at a meeting called for the purpose, the First Congregational Church of Ridgeville. The number of members now (January, 1870,) belonging to the church, is forty-seven. Chas. llerrick is clerk, and Henry D. Rogers, T. T. Winkles, Le Roy Race, Edward Ames, deacons. There is no settled pastor at present, but preaching is had once every Sabbath, by ministers from Oberlin. Job Lickerish is superintendent of the Sabbath school, which contains about one hundred and fifty scholars.

Read the chapter on Carlisle Township.

Named in the same survey

11 establishments

The surveyors walked Lorain 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 American Hotel in the 1893 atlasAmerican Hotelhotel1893
The index line reading Day, H. K., Foundry & Machine Shop in the 1893 atlasDay, H. K., Foundry & Machine Shopfoundry1893
The index line reading Doland. T Carriage Works in the 1893 atlasDoland, T., Carriage Worksworks1893
The index line reading Opera House in the 1893 atlasOpera Houseopera house1893
The index line reading Rawson, E. F., Foundry in the 1893 atlasRawson, E. F., Foundryfoundry1893
The index line reading Sunday School in the 1893 atlasSunday Schoolschool1893
The index line reading Union School in the 1893 atlasUnion Schoolschool1893
The index line reading England Hotel in the 1922 atlasEngland Hotelhotel1922
The index line reading Christ Episcopal Church in the 1922 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1922
The index line reading German Methodist Church in the 1922 atlasGerman Methodist Church, 2church1922
The index line reading Grade and High School in the 1922 atlasHigh schoolschool1922

Other churches in the atlases

7

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

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Oberlin, 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.