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Methodist Church

A church in Guernsey County, Ohio, named in 3 atlases between 1946 and 1948.

The line reading Methodist Church in the 1946 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1946 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1946Methodist Churchthe scanned index
1948Free Methodist Churchthe scanned index
1948Trinity Methodist 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.

Methodist Church
Free Methodist Church
Trinity Methodist Church

Named in the 1911 county history

The history of Guernsey County was published 35 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

There is no early church record of its genesis, but a presbyterial record says that the Lancaster Presbytery appointed a committee, of which Rev. Mr. Baldrige was chairman (in 1816), whose duty was to organize a church in this township. It further notes that three Elders were elected and installed, uamely: Thomas Bay, Sr., Benjamin Bay and William Allen. John Baldrige became the first pastor for half time in 1817, and remained in charge until 1823. In 1824 Rev. William Wallace, a man of push and talent, a strong Calvinist and one who stood firmly by his convictions, was called and served with fidelity for fourteen years. They built their first meeting-house in 1830, so say the oldest inhabitants, there being no church record of the fact.

Read the chapter on Spencer Township.

Named in the county's atlases

6 establishments

No other establishment was recorded in this atlas that year. These are the ones the surveyors read elsewhere in Guernsey County, each with the line it was read from.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading Third Ward School in the 1892 atlasThird Ward Schoolschool1892
The index line reading Jeffersonian Printing in the 1897 atlasJeffersonian Printingprinting1897
The index line reading Hammond Opera House in the 1901 atlasHammond Opera Houseopera house1901
The index line reading Pacific Hotel in the 1901 atlasPacific Hotelhotel1901
The index line reading Presbyterian Church in the 1901 atlasPresbyterian Churchchurch1901
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1909 atlasMethodist Episcopal Churchchurch1909

Other churches in the atlases

2

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

Provenance

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