Series: Published and Unpublished Correspondence and Minutes

“The Origin of the Primitive Methodist Connexion in the Middlewest,” written by James Alderson to the Primitive Methodist Magazine, 1842-1843
Note: Typescript.

“Clowes Primitive Methodist Church, 1853, Grant Hill, Illinois” by Alderson from the Primitive Methodist Magazine
Note: Typescript.

Numerous articles on Primitive Methodism in the Middlewest from the Primitive Methodist Magazine, 1847-1858
Note: Typescript.

Memoir of John Leekly of New Diggings, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, by John Sharpe, 1854, from the American Primitive Methodist Magazine
Note: Typescript.

Letters of John Leekley; reproduced pages from the Primitive Methodist Magazine

Documents regarding Joseph Hewitt
Note: Found at very end of Reel 4, after “End of Reel” target

Western Conference Minutes

1851-1894

1895-1930
Scope and Content Note: Also includes Eastern Conference minutes, 1873 and 1874. The minutes are in a single chronological order. They include synopses of meetings in 1851, 1853, 1862, 1870, 1877, 1878, 1893, 1895-1901, and 1903 (mainly from periodicals and newspapers); and printed booklets documenting meetings in 1872-1874, 1886, 1889-1892, 1893-1922, 1924-1925, and 1930.

Western Conference Minute book, 1883-1890

General Conference Minutes, 1893, 1897, 1901, 1905, 1909, 1913, 1917, 1921, 1925, 1929
Note: Published booklets

John Hardcastle tribute by James A. Nichols and a newspaper obituary, 1929

Western Conference Connexional Committee Minute book

1870-1892 Sept 27
Note: Pages 1-175

1892 Sept 27-1910
Note: Pages 176-end