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

Presbyterian Church

A church in Shelby County, Ohio, named in 3 atlases between 1887 and 1892.

The line reading Presbyterian Church in the 1887 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1887 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1887Presbyterian Churchthe scanned index
1892Presbyterian Churchthe scanned index
1892United Presbyterian 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.

Presbyterian Church
United Presbyterian Church

Named in the 1913 county history

The history of Shelby County was published 26 years after the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The Alexanders are from Scotland. They were Protestants, and were driven to Ireland, where they remained until 1736, when John Alexander came to America, and settled in Chester County, Pa. Others of the same family soon followed. From here they soon scattered to Western Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina. It is claimed of them that they became the basis of the Presbyterian Church in America. A whole volume could be written of this noted family, but space will not permit. We will trace a brief genealogy of the direct ancestors of the Shelby County Alexanders.

Read the chapter on Dinsmore Township.

Named in the same survey

4 establishments

The surveyors walked Shelby 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 First Baptist Church in the 1887 atlasFirst Baptist Churchchurch1887
The index line reading Heiser, J., Plow Works in the 1887 atlasHeiser, J., Plow Worksworks1887
The index line reading Journal Printing in the 1887 atlasJournal Printingprinting1887
The index line reading Wagner Hotel in the 1887 atlasWagner Hotelhotel1887

Other church in the atlases

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

Provenance

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