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Photo of Rev. Horace Reed
Photograph of Rev. Horace Reed; (died 11/15/1914). Methodist minister who at the time of death was one of the oldest in the Methodist conference. He came to the pastorate of the First Methodist Church in Decatur in 1874 and remained 2 years. He…
Photo of Stapp's Chapel
Photograph of Stapp's Chapel. for many years the church building that housed the Grace Methodist congregation at Eldorado and Franklin Streets was known as Stapp's Chapel. the church was organized in 1866 and a mission building erected. As the…
Photos of Grace Methodist Church, North Main Street.
Photograph of Grace Methodist church, front entrance. Photograph of Grace Methodist, people on their way to church. Photograph of the exterior of Grace Methodist church. Photograph of exterior of Grace Methodist church and class rooms. Photo of the…
Monthly Board of Trustees Minutes November 1960
This is the minutes of the board meeting on November 25, 1960. Also included is the combined budget and bill list for November, appraisals of the main library and the Alice Evans Branch by The Lloyd-Thomas Co., and letters to Mary T. Howe from The…
Monthly Board of Trustees Minutes - September 1960
This is the minutes from the board meeting on September 30, 1960. Also included is a letter from Mayor Robert A. Grohne to Mrs. Ralph Buttz Jr., a letter from Mary T. Howe to Mayor Robert A. Grohne about including the boiler insurance with the…
Photos of Grace United Methodist Church N. Main Street
Photographs of Grace United Methodist Church Exterior, N. Main Street, Decatur, IL. Photograph of the Interior of Grace United Methodist Church.
Photo of Irene Witzman member of Grace United Methodist Church.
Photograph of Irene Witzman, member of Grace United Methodist Church.
Photo of Dr. Walter F. Day and Carlos Kincaid, pastors Grace United Methodist Church.
Photographs of Dr. Walter F. Day (died 12/24/1974) and Carlos Kincaid. Dr. Day is welcoming Carlos Kincaid as a new pastor to Grace United Methodist Church. For more information on Carlos Kincaid; see Decatur Review dated 7/5/1949.
Photo of Dr. Clarence True Wilson
Photograph of Dr. Clarence True Wilson (died 2/16/1939). Internationally known prohibitionist and Methodist church temperance board founder. He was the founder and for 25 years head of the Methodist church board of Temperance, prohibition and public…
Photo of Dr. Benjamin F. Shipp
Photograph of Dr. Benjamin F. Shipp (born 1861; died Dec 1937). Superintendent of the Decatur District of the Illinois Methodist conference from 1905 to 1910. Photo ran 1906.