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

Presbyterian Church

Name: Presbyterian Church
Address: OH, US

A church in Williams County, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1905 and 1916.

The line reading First Presbyterian Church in the 1905 atlas index — The index line as printed in the 1905 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

Atlas	Read as	Sheet
1905	First Presbyterian Church	the scanned index
1916	Presbyterian Church	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.

Presbyterian Church

First Presbyterian Church

Named in the 1905 county history

The history of Williams County was published in the same year as the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

The first church of the Presbyterian faith was organized by the early pioneers and services were conducted in the cabins, or at any accessible point, until a church building was erected. The first churches were attended by the worshipping pioneers, regardless of their individual preferences as to creed ; and it was not until 1854 that the Presbyterian church began to maintain a separate organization, in Bryan. The first minister and organizing pastor was Rev. J. M.

Read the chapter on Pulaski Township.

Named in the same survey

3 establishments

The surveyors walked Williams 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.

Establishment	Trade	Atlas
F'ountain City Brewery	brewery	1905
German Lutheran Church	church	1905
Publie School	school	1905

Other churches in the atlases

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

Provenance

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