Wisconsin Congregational Conference Records, 1840-1949


Summary Information
Title: Wisconsin Congregational Conference Records
Inclusive Dates: 1840-1949

Creator:
  • Wisconsin Congregational Conference
Call Number: Wis Mss GX

Quantity: 7.8 c.f. (15 archives boxes)

Repository:
Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
Records of local churches in Wisconsin that were members of the Wisconsin Congregational Conference, of several related church organizations, and of the Christian Endeavor Academy, an industrial education school sponsored by the Conference. Records include minutes, treasurers' records, membership information, and other items. Also present in the church record books are two non-church items: (1) a diary, 1902-1915, kept by Samuel Knox (born 1819) of Osborn, Wis., with brief entries on his expenses and activities; and (2) records, 1860, of the Windsor Teachers Association including a constitution and minutes of meetings and an institute it sponsored.

Language: English

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Administrative/Restriction Information
Acquisition Information

Presented by the Conference and other donors including Robert Neal, Milton Patrick, Mowry Smith, Jr., Ernest N. Warner, Mrs. Fredrick E. Volk, A. B. Loofbourow, Samuel M. Pedrick, Andrew W. Hopkins, and J. W. Hopkins.


Processing Information

The Ripon portion of this collection was arranged by Library School student Phyllis Abbott, November 1955.


Contents List
Volume   1-41
Removed from the collection and re-cataloged as “United Church of Christ - Wisconsin Synod”
Bristol, Paris, and Vicinity, church
Record Books, 1841-1928
Box   2
Volume   42
1851-1914
Box   2
Volume   43
1914-1928
Box   2
Volume   44
Constitution and minutes of meetings, 1854-1890
Box   2
Volume   45
Minutes of meetings, 1925-1930
Treasurer's books
Box   2
Volume   46
1852-1882
Box   2
Volume   47
1885-1916
Box   3
Volume   48
1916-1930
Box   3
Volume   49
Account book, 1888-1914
Box   3
Volume   50
Brooklyn church records, 1869, Jan. 16 - 1875, Feb. 25
Cumberland church
Box   3
Volume   51
Records, 1896-1927
Box   3
Volume   52
Treasurer's account book, 1922-1927
Box   3
Volume   53
Cashton church record book, 1892, Feb. 21 - 1940, Apr. 8
Darlington church records, 1874-1938
Box   3
Volume   54
1874, Feb. 25 - 1906, Dec. 13
Box   4
Volume   55
1906, Dec. 27 - 1938, June 28
Desoto church records, 1856-1915
Box   4
Volume   56
1856, Mar. 5 - 1915, Feb. 24
Box   4
Volume   57
1856, Feb. 16 - 1900, Nov. 3
Box   4
Volume   58
Drummond: Union Congregational Church records, 1915-1919
Box   4
Volume   59
Easton church records, 1870, Jan. 9 - 1928, July 1
Box   5
Volume   60
Endeavor: Records, 1853-1925, of the Christian Endeavor Academy
Scope and Content Note: The Academy was a Congregational institution devoted to industrial education. Included are deeds, abstract of land titles, land grants, proceedings of the executive board, and allied material.
Box   5
Volume   61
Frankville church records, 1876-1907
Box   5
Volume   62
Green Bay: First Congregational Church of Fort Howard records, 1855-1889
Kaukauna church
Records of the Ladies Aid Society, 1909-1938
Box   5
Volume   63
1909-1912
Box   5
Volume   64
1913-1921
Box   5
Volume   65
1922-1926
Box   6
Volume   66
1927-1931
Box   6
Volume   67
1932-1938
Records of the Congregational Missionary Society, 1897-1938
Box   6
Volume   68
1897-1900
Box   6
Volume   69
1900-1918
Box   6
Volume   70
1917-1931
Box   6
Volume   71
1931-1938
Box   6
Volume   72
Financial accounts, 1899-1938
Leeds church
Box   6
Volume   72a
Minutes of annual meetings, 1862-1908
Box   6
Volume   72b
Meetings, communion record, some membership records, 1878-1915
Box   6
Volume   72c
Treasurer's account of contributions, 1878-1914
Volume   73-74a
Madison: Pilgrim Congregational Church records, removed from the collection and included with the records cataloged as Mss 28
Menasha church treasurer's books
Box   15
Volume   114
1889-1897
Box   15
Volume   115
1898-1909
Milwaukee: Hanover Street Congregational Church minutes, 1860-1920
Box   7
Volume   75
1860, Feb. 28 - 1889, Nov. 6
Box   7
Volume   76
1889, Oct. 16 - 1915, Dec. 13
Box   7
Volume   77
1892, Dec. 21 - 1900, June 24
Box   8
Volume   78
1908, Jan. - 1920, Nov. 29
Box   8
Volume   79
Monroe church records, 1854, Oct. - 1876, April
Box   8
Volume   80
Mount Sterling church records, 1900, May - 1928, Feb.
Box   9
Volume   81
Neenah: Welsh Congregational Church records, 1861-1906
Box   9
Volume   81a
Osborn church records, 1869-1881
Note: Included is a diary, 1902-1915, of Samuel Knox.
Box   9
Volume   82
Oshkosh: Winnebago Congregational Club secretary's book, 1883-1885
Box   9
Volume   83
Pewaukee church register, 1840-1897
Box   15
Volume   116
Platteville church membership list as prepared by the pastor, the Rev. John Lewis, 1858
Ripon: First Congregational Church
Note: The early records are valuable for what they contain on the early history of Ripon and the references to the Ceresco community.
Minutes of the congregation, 1850-1937
Box   9
Volume   84
1850, Nov. 21 - 1865, June 2
Box   9
Volume   85
1865, Jan. 1 - 1898, Dec. 15
Box   10
Volume   86
1898, Dec. 31 - 1925, Jan. 1
Box   10
Volume   87
1925, Feb. 22 - 1934, Dec. 5
Box   10
Volume   88
1935, Jan. 2 - 1937, Nov. 19
Minutes of the First Congregational Society, 1857-1908
Box   10
Volume   89
1857, Jan. 2 - 1869, Dec. 20
Box   11
Volume   90
1871, Jan. 2 - 1908, Feb. 20
Box   11
Volume   91
Minutes of the trustees of the Society, 1878-1908
Minutes of church and trustees meetings, 1938-1949
Box   11
Volume   92
1938, Jan. 5 - 1944, Jan. 5
Box   12
Volume   93
1944, Jan. 5 - 1949, Jan. 9
Box   12
Volume   94
Records of the treasurer of the Society, 1892-1908, and of the Church, , 1908-1912
Box   1
Folder   1
Extracts of records of the Winnebago Convention, 1851, Oct. 6 - 1855; Brockway College, , 1855, Jan. 29 - 1866, July 18; and Ripon College, , 1867, June 27 - 1873, Mar. 6
Box   1
Folder   2
Papers relating to the resignation of pastor Dr. S. M. Newman, 1881, Aug. 21 - 1885, Feb. 3
Note: Some, but not all, of these documents have been copied into the church minutes.
Box   1
Folder   3
Copy of condensed Clerk's records, 1850, Nov. 21 - 1925, Jan. 1, as compiled by S. M. Pedrick
Box   1
Folder   4
Miscellaneous papers; correspondence, sermons, speeches, miscellany
Note: Included is a copy of letters of Franklin G. Sherrill, 1851-1853, and extracts from Mrs. Sherrill's diary regarding their trip to Wisconsin from New York in 1850. Reverend Sherrill was the first pastor of the church, 1850-1853.
Box   1
Volume   unnumbered
Reports of Education Committee, 1931-1938
Box   12
Volume   95
Salem church records, including minutes, 1875-1887
Box   12
Volume   96
Saxeville church records, 1896, Aug. 27 - 1930, Feb.
Shullsburg church
Minutes, 1848-1931
Box   12
Volume   97
1848, March 26 - 1872, Nov. 3
Box   12
Volume   98
1873, Jan. 4 - 1916, July 6
Box   13
Volume   99
1895, Feb. 17 - 1931, April 3
Box   13
Volume   100
Minutes of committee meetings, 1895-1897
Box   13
Volume   101
Records of the trustees, 1851, Oct. 20 - 1885, Sept. 12; 1900
Springvale church records, 1853-1929
Box   13
Volume   102
1853-1908
Box   13
Volume   103
1853-1913
Box   13
Volume   104
1915-1929
Box   13
Volume   105
Stephensville church records, 1872, June 21 - 1923, Nov. 5
Stoughton: First Congregational Church
Note: The congregation began as the Presbyterian Church of Cooksville, 1851, May 4 - 1857, Apr. 12; moved to Stoughton continuing from 1857, May 3 - 1863, March 29; changed to First Congregational Church of Stoughton, 1863, May 29, continuing as such until disbanded on September 28, 1944.
Ladies Monthly Missionary minutes, 1894-1909
Box   13
Volume   106
1894, Mar. 9 - 1899, May 12
Box   14
Volume   107
1900, Sept. 21 - 1909, Dec. 10
Church records, 1863-1944
Box   14
Volume   108
1863, May 29 - 1902, Oct. 20
Box   14
Volume   109
1902, Sept. 28 - 1944, March
Box   14
Volume   110
History of the church, written circa 1902
Box   15
Volume   121
Stoughton Ladies Aid Society minute book, 1908-1917
Viroqua church
Box   14
Volume   111
Records, minutes of meetings, and history, 1855-1909
Box   14
Volume   112
Minutes of meetings and miscellaneous records, 1903-1930
Box   15
Volume   113
Missionary Society treasurer's account book, 1892-1910
Windsor: Union Congregational Church
Box   15
Volume   117
Minutes and membership roll, 1858-1883
Box   15
Volume   118
Minutes and account book of the Church and Society, 1860-1906, and constitution, by-laws, and minutes of the Windsor Teacher's Association and Teachers Institute, , 1860
Box   15
Volume   119
Records of the Windsor Union Sabbath School, 1862-1863
Box   15
Volume   120
Register of membership receptions and removals, lists of ministers, clerks, deacons, baptisms, Sunday School superintendents, contributions and trustees