Digital Resources
Clergy
| Arnold, John Motte | Selections from the Autobiography of Rev. J.M. Arnold, D.D. and from his Editorial Writings on the Doctrine of Sanctification / compiled and arranged by M.A. Boughton. (Ann Arbor, MI: Index Publishing House, 1885). Arnold served as a minister from 1848-1862 and then business manager/assistant editor and then editor-in-chief of the Michigan Christian Advocate. |
| Collins, Judson Dwight | Hinman, C.T. - The Model Christian Young Man: An Address on the Life and Character of Rev. Judson Dwight Collins, Late Missionary to China (Detroit Free Press Book and Job Office Print, 1852) |
| Judson Collins Center (near Onsted, Michigan) | |
| Judson Collins Memorial Cemetery (Washtenaw County, Michigan) | |
| Obituary from the 1852 Annual Conference Minutes | |
| Conference Bishops | Resident Bishops, 1917-Present |
| Conference Cane History | Detroit Conference Cane |
| Hickey, Manasseh | Hickey, Manasseh - A Missionary Among the Indians: Reminiscences, Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, Vol. IV, pp, 23-37 and 544-556. |
| Lanning, Robert C. | Dodd, James A. - The Letters of the Reverend Robert C. Lanning to the Reverend Henry W. Hicks, 1866-1888: A View of Early Methodism in Michigan, Methodist History, April 1987. Letters from the Hicks Papers detailing Lanning's life as a minister in Dearborn, Caro, Hartland, Williamston, Danville, Mount Morris, Davisburg, Gaines, Byron, Quinnesec, Redford, Southfield, Warren, and Leesville. |
| Lee, Luther | Autobiography of the Rev. Luther Lee, D.D. (New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1882). Minister and antislavery activist who served in several states and conferences. Late in his career he became a professor at Adrian College and then joined the Detroit Conference in 1867. |
| Kostlevy, William C. - Luther Lee and Methodist Abolitionism, Methodist History, January 1982. | |
| Marksman, Peter | Pitezel, John H. - Life of Rev. Peter Marksman, an Ojibwa Missionary: Illustrating the Triumphs of the Gospel Among the Ojibwa Indians (Cincinnati: Western Methodist Book Concern, ca. 1901). Marksman was an Ojibwa who became a Methodist Episcopal missionary to other Native Americans during the 19th century. |
| Pilcher, Elijah Holmes | Brunger, R.A. - Elijah Holmes Pilcher: Methodist Preacher Extraordinary (Methodist History Magazine, July 1964) |
| Pilcher, James E. - Life and Labors of Elijah H. Pilcher, of Michigan: Fifty-nine Years a Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church (New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1892. | |
| Pitezel, John H. | Historical Recollections: A Paper Read Before the Historical Society of the Michigan Conference at Jackson, Michigan, September 23, 1872 (Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden, 1873). This focuses on the creation of the Michigan Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and its early history. |
| Pitezel, John H. - Lights and Shades of Missionary Life: containing travels, sketches, incidents, and missionary efforts, during nine years spent in the region of Lake Superior. (Cincinnati, Walden & Stowe, 1882). This covers his work with Native Americans between 1843 and 1852. This is a new edition with important supplementary matter to a book originally published in 1857. | |
| Reed, Seth | Lincoln funeral pamphlet |
| Reed, Seth - The Story of My Life (Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, 1914) | |
| Rice, Merton S. | Herbst, M.T. - The Monastery in the Methodist Eye: Rev. Merton S. Rice of Detroit and St. George of Choziba (Methodist History, October 2005) |
Ridgway, Robert |
Ridgway, Robert - Romeo Circuit in 1837 |
| Roberts, Robert R. | Elliott, Charles - The Life of the Rev. Robert R. Roberts (New York: G. Lane & C. B. Tippett, 1844). He was the bishop who presided over the 1837 and 1841 Michigan Annual Conferences. |
| York, Frances | Autobiography of Mrs. Frances D. York, Corresponding Secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. Church, Detroit Conference, Michigan |