MC. Manuscript Collections

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The records of the Wood County Farmers' Mutual Fire Association consist of assessment books, ledgers, and certificates of membership, ranging from 1903 until 1960.

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The records, dating from 1922 to 1978, include newsletters, financial statements, brochures, correspondences and research notes.

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The Wood County Monumental Works records span the period from the founding of the business in 1907 until 1954 and comprises contracts, correspondence, cash books, purchase, check and sales records.

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The Wood County, Ohio “Ghost Town” Photographic collection contains copy negatives with historic 19th and early 20th century views of small towns around Wood County, some with identification, gathered for copying by the Wood County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society. The negatives were also scanned and copied to CD for ease of use, identification sheet included.

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The records of the Wood County Retired Teachers Association consist of 1.15 cubic feet of meeting minutes, written histories, scrapbooks, clippings, and a newsletter from 1969 to 2006.

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Background information sheets, organized by township and school district, on one-room schoolhouses in Wood County, Ohio. Collected by the Wood County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society as part of the Wood County Schoolhouse Project.

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Included with this collection are the records of the New Winchester United Methodist Church.

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The records of Woodmen of the World, Columbia Camp #17, North Baltimore, Ohio, consist of meeting minutes, a membership ledger, cash books, correspondence, and account books, dating from 1894 through 1913.

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The records of the York Township Birthday Club date from 1926 to 1991. The 0.55 cubic feet of minutes, newspaper clippings, and photographs reflect the ihstory and activities of this Fulton County social club.

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The Young-Furst collection consists of photographs relating to Eban Claude Young dating from 1916 through 1924. The collection also contains photographs relating to the World War I service of Sylvester A. Furst. Certificates and materials relating to Sylvester Furst’s tenure as an engineer of Great Lakes shipping vessels are also included.

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The personal photographs of Yvonne (Slyker) Cave consist of snapshots, including many taken during her years as a student at Bowling Green State University between 1945 and her graduation with the Class of 1948.

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The Zimmerman School Collection features artifacts, books, documents, and photographs documenting rural education in Center Township, Wood County, Ohio in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Scope and Contents The records of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church include three record books which contain information on church members with log entries for baptisms, confirmations, marriages, pastors, burials and deaths, and communicants covering the period from 1846 to 1989. The first volume also contains some biographical sketches of early church leaders. Minutes of the church's congregational assemblies for the period 1856 to 1873 are included in the second volume. A fifty year history of the church,...

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The collection, dating from 1837 to 1952, with some family records beginning in 1803, consists of church and family record books and minutes of the Ladies Aid Society and Luther League. These records constitute an addition to the items originally transferred in 1982.

Abstract The collection consists of four record books, three congregational meeting minutes, a church history and a photograph. The first three record books provide information on baptisms, confirmations, marriages, communicants, and funerals and date from 1883 to January 1991. The fourth record book is a family register which includes vital statistical information arranged by family name and dating from the 1820s to the 1940s. The congregational meeting minutes date from 1884 to January 1991. The...

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The collection consists of four record books, 1877-1986, which include membership lists as well as records of baptisms, confirmations, communicants, marriages, and funerals. The early records are written in German. The first record book includes some family listings dating as early as 1820-1868, but these listings are very scattered.

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Membership, communicants, baptisms, marriages, deaths, congregation minutes, and register of pastors.

Scope and Contents The collection of the Zion United Methodist Church consists of two record books. The first record book, spanning the period from 1861 to 1908 is written in German. Information contained within this volume includes registers of officials, members, baptisms, marriages, and deaths. Some congregational statistics are also included. Entries were primarily written in German; however, baptisms and marriages occurring after 1893 were entered in English.The second record book spans the...

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Record books, including baptism, communion, marriage, and death records ; lists of members and officers ; Church constitution ; financial and cemetery information. Most records are in German.

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The collection consists of three record books, dating from 1853 through 1974, and including information on the church's members, lists of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, communicants, and burials. The first volume includes a family register which dates from the 1780s through the 1860s. The first two record books largely are written in German.

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The Zonta Club of Bowling Green, Ohio area records includes proceedings, correspondence, subject files, reports, literary productions, scrapbooks, printed material, and photographic material from 1999 to 2016.