Religion
Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:
Plutarch Stewart Knight collection
Small collection of papers relating to Reverend P. S. Knight, who emigrated to the Northwest in 1853. Papers include meeting minutes related to Knight's ordination and relationship with the First Congregational Church in Oregon City, as well as an address he delivered before the Oregon Pioneer Association in 1898.
Portland Methodist Preacher's Meeting records
The Portland Methodist Preacher's Meeting was an association of Methodist ministers in the Portland, Oregon area. Collection includes constitution and bylaws, 1883 and 1944-1945; minutes, 1883-1892, 1917-1931 and 1944-1950; financial records, 1924-1950; programs; and list of members.
Portland Unitarian Church plans
Collection includes 14 elevations and plans on 12 sheets for the Unitarian Church at SW Yamhill St. and SW Broadway Ave. in Portland, Oregon, by architecture firm Peabody & Stearns of Boston, Massachusetts.
Presbytery of the Cascades records
Collection includes minutes, programs, and reports; a directory, 1975; and flyers and committee reports, 1989.
The Protestant Ladder; a history and description of the Ladder as given before the National Society of the Colonial Dames in Oregon
Typescript, June 26, 1951, with corrections, regarding the Protestant Ladder as a method of teaching religion to Native Americans by early Protestant missionaries.
William Roberts letter to William Kibbs
Letter from William Roberts (1812-1888) to William Kibbs, which includes Roberts' impressions of the Oregon Territory. Roberts was a Methodist missionary who was the superintendent of the Oregon Methodist Mission from 1847 to 1853, and was a trustee of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
Eric L. Robinson papers
Eric L. Robinson was a Methodist minister active in anti-war and other social movements. Collection includes correspondence, 1964-1974; and information sheets, reports, minutes, newsletters, statements and resolutions of groups such as Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam (CALCAV), Greater Portland Area Council of Churches, Portland United Nations Association and World Without War Council.
Royal family papers
Royal family papers
Papers of the Royal family of Oregon. Brothers Charles Royal (1798-1878) and William Royal (1796-1870) emigrated to Oregon in 1852 and 1853, respectively. William Royal was a Methodist minister who founded the Centenary Methodist Church (later Centenary-Wilbur Methodist Church) in East Portland; his sons Thomas Fletcher Royal (1821-1911) and James Henry Bascom Royal (1830-1910) were also Methodist ministers.
William Royal diary and bible census
Diary of William Royal (1796-1870), and notebook he used to record information about bible ownership in Portland, Oregon. Royal was a Methodist minister who came to Oregon in 1853, and who lived in Portland in the 1860s.