Finding Aids

Personal & Organizational Papers

All internal links to finding aids are in PDF form. Links to finding aids at other archives (Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan = BHL, Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Public Library = DPL, Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper County Historical Collections = MTU, United Methodist Church Archives - General Commission on Archives and History = GCAH, Southern Methodist University Archives = SMU) are in the format chosen by those institutions.

The collections below are from the old Detroit Conference Archives. We will be adding collections from the old West Michigan Conference Archives as time permits.

• Arnold, John M.
Early Michigan Methodist Episcopal minister
• Bay View Association
History file containing programs, publications, clippings, and a microfilm of a history
• Beelby, George
• Blackman, Learner
Journal of an early circuit rider and presiding elder in various southern states who lived from 1781 to 1815 (microfilm)
• Blakeman, Edward William (BHL)
Counselor in religious education at the University of Michigan; his papers are at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan
• Boehm, Henry
Methodist pastor in Lancaster, Pennsylvania who lived from 1775 to 1875 (microfilm)
• Bragg, Charles
Methodist Protestant minister and eventual President of the Michigan Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church and commissioner of the Methodist Union; holder of the Detroit Conference Cane
• Brashares, Charles W. (BHL)
Pastor at Ann Arbor: First Methodist Church, later a Methodist Bishop; his papers are at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan
• Brown, Patricia S.
• Broughall, Leona
• Brunger, Ronald Alvord
Methodist clergyman and historian
• Cargo, Ruth E.
• Carlton, Arthur
• Carter, John
• Casler, David
Methodist clergyman, at one point the oldest surviving clergyman in the Detroit Conference
• Caster, Elisha Ezra
Methodist clergyman
• Cogshall, Wilbur Israel
• Collins, Judson Dwight
Methodist minister and missionary to China; his papers are at the University of Michigan
• Craig, Judith (GCAH)
Michigan Area Bishop; her papers are at the United Methodist Church Archives - General Commission on Archives and History, Madison, New Jersey
• Crane, Henry Hitt (BHL)
Pastor at Detroit: Central Methodist Church; his papers are at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan
• David, Nellie
• Davis, Lorenzo (BHL)
Washtenaw County, Michigan minister, historian, and public official
• Dystant, John
Superintendent of the Bay City District
• Elwood, Isaac Newton (BHL)
Methodist Episcopal minister in Marquette, Fenton, Saginaw, Morenci, Ann Arbor, Port Huron, Ypsilanti, and Flint; his papers are at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan
• Eversole, John
• Fisher, Frederick Bohn (BHL)
Minister at Detroit: Central Methodist Church
• Fulkerson, Cora Kier
• George, Herbert
• Gilruth, James
Journal of a Methodist Episcopal Church traveling minister, primarily in Ohio and Iowa, who lived from 1793 to 1873 (microfilm)
• Gloyd Family
Founding members of Allen Park: Trinity
• Grindley, Sarah
• Hammaker, Wilbur Emery (BHL)
Methodist Bishop, President of the Methodist Church Board of Temperance; his papers are at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan
• Harper, Ralph D.
Former Detroit Conference archivist/historian
• Heininger, Samuel
Evangelical minister in Michigan and during the Civil War
• Hickey, George S.
• Hicks, Henry Warren
Methodist Protestant minister; in addition to the collection at the Detroit Conference Archives, there is a significant collection of his papers at the Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Public Library
• Hollis, Ben J.
• Horton, Robert E.
• Houser, Elmer
• Jacklin, James Edward
Methodist Episcopal clergyman
• Jordan, Cecelia C.
• Knapp, George
Members of the Evangelical Church and later United Brethren Church in Lenawee County, Michigan
• LaLone, Dan
• Langford, Howard D.
• Lenz, Henry William
• Loose, John Wesley
Evangelical Church clergyman
• Lord, Harry J.
• Macmillan, Margaret B.
• McEldowney, John E.
Michigan minister
• McElroy, George B.
• Meally, John Edward (BHL)
Methodist minister and secretary of the Board of Stewards of the Methodist Episcopal Church; his papers are at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan
• Methodist Federation for Social Action (Detroit Conference)
Methodist social welfare organization
• Methodist Publishing Company
One volume of records is at the Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library
• Michigan Christian Advocate Publishing Company
Publishers of a Methodist publication
• Miscellaneous Personal Papers
• Native American Files
Michigan Indian missions and history
• Ninde, William X (SMU)
Methodist Episcopal minister and bishop
• Nixon, William G.
Methodist Episcopal minister
• Oosting
• Pellowe, William Charles Smithson
Methodist clergyman, historian, and archivist
• Peterlin, Michael
• Phelps, William Henry (BHL)
Methodist clergyman and editor of the Michigan Christian Advocate; his papers are at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan
• Pohl, Keith I.
• Polkinghorne, Stephen
Methodist Episcopal minister
• Prescott, W. Ray
• Ransom, Eugene and Jeanne Bailey (BHL)
Director of the Wesley Foundation at the University of Michigan and his wife
• Richards, William
Methodist Episcopal and later Methodist minister
• Ridgway, Robert
Circuit rider
• Royce, Helen Louise
Methodist clergywoman
• Ruotsolainen, K.
• Seybert, John
Journal of the second Bishop of the Evangelical Association, who lived from 1791 to 1860 (microfilm)
• Stephenson, Franklin William
Methodist Protestant clergyman
• Studley, William Sprague (BHL)
Methodist Episcopal minister in Detroit and Ann Arbor; his papers are at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan
• Swift Family (BHL)
Methodist circuit rider, his son was a Wesleyan Methodist circuit rider
• Swift, Harriet Young
Methodist convert in Lapeer, Michigan
• Taylor Family (BHL)
Methodist clergyman and family
• Teed, Florence Ernestine Schleicher (BHL)
Methodist Minister; her papers are at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan
• Tripp, George Francis
Methodist Episcopal clergyman
• Weiss, Edwin
• Wilson, Francis E.
Pastoral Record including baptisms, marriages, and funerals (pastor at Dixboro, Garden City, Detroit: Woodmere, Marlette, and Detroit: Thoburn)
• Wilson, George (BHL)
British-born circuit rider around the Port Huron area
• Wolfe, Charles F.
Methodist minister in Norway, South Lyon, Detroit, Alpena, and Bay City and District Superintendent for the Marquette District
• York, Frances D.
Methodist minister's wife
• York, Lodowick C.
Methodist minister
• Zoller, John (BHL)
Detroit radio evangelist, president and preacher of the Wesley Radio League