Scope and Contents The Bailey Family collection consists largely of materials curated by Fred and Ethel Bailey from their missionary trip to Mexico from 1907-1911. Documents found in the collection include sermons written by Fred and Charles, church documents pertaining to the Methodist and Catholic churches, correspondences from before, during, and after their stay in Mexico, and various personal papers. Books found within the collection are primarily about the Methodist church, but also include nonfiction...

Abstract This collection holds the meeting notes and communications of Don W. Holter, Neil Heidrick, and the Combined Editorial Board of the Kansas East and Kansas West United Methodist Conferences. The papers are divided into three boxes. Box one of three contains the meeting notes and communications. Box two of three hold a spriled copy of the book ‘Fire on the Prairie’. Box three of three holds edits for chapters of the book ‘Fire on the Prairie’ and most of the individual chapters of the book as...

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This series contains the handwritten correspondence and journals of Milton Mars Haun, a circuit preacher who came to Kansas in 1857. He served in the Kansas, South Kansas, and Southwest Kansas conferences and preached the first sermon in Newton, Kansas in a saloon. In total, Haun served 15 churches in Kansas and died in 1902.

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A collection of personal letters of Methodist minster J.S. Griffing from 1854-1868 relating mostly to the settlement of Kansas and methodism during this time, with reference to the continued conflict known as Bloody Kansas. This collection also includes supplmentary materials on Griffing and documents relating to the creation and matinence of the collection itself.