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THE COMMISSION ON ARCHIVES AND IDSTORY
DETROIT ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Ronald A. Brunger, Archivist
Home Phone: {517) 456-7992
Archives, Adrian College Library
Adrian, Michigan 49221
Telephone: (517) 265-5161
First Log Church
on the River Rouge
1818

Clinton, oldest UMC
edifice in Conference
1837

REV. I SAAC CRAWFORD
Could he have been rela t ed to Rev. Riley Crawford?
Isaac Crawford wa s a minister in ea rly Michigan Methodism, and served
a t Milford, among other places .
He evidently was expe lled from the mini s tr y of t he M. B. Church. < JtZ:, ~
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lflarjorie Bourns a nd Patsy Patt ~ rson, resea rchers in the Milford Hi s tory ,
found a record of the death of Rev. Isaac Crawford in Byron on Dec. 5,
1905, sta ting tha t he had been a minis te r the longest of any minister
in Shiawassee Co ~mty. We wonder i f he slipped into the ministry of
another denominati on. Archivist Brung er checked the Methodist Protesta nt records and found tha t h e was no t in t ha t denomina tion.
1864--ilisaac Cra wford, Corunna. Also 1863. Also 1862.
1 866--Isaac Cr awford, Owosso. Also 1865
1861--Flint, Garland St.
1860--Flushing
1859--Holly.(District?) Also 1858
1 8 57--GeeaP~eRv~~~e
Hadley. also 1856.
1867--Milford.
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He loca ted tha t year.
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1873 De troit Conference Minutes.
" ~ otic e was given of an appea l bY Isaac Crawford, a loca l elder, from
a decisi on of Sagina w Dis trict Conference. The cas e with accompanying
!Japers was referred t o a committee of n ' n e, and John Kelly was a ppoi nted
to s erve a s counsel in behal f of the church. 11 p. 11
"The Pr ~::: s ident appointed the following Committee of Nine t o try the a ppea l by I saac Cra wford: B. · S. Taylor, cha irman; Jesse Kilpa trick, L.C.York,
F . W. Warren, W. B. Holt , W.H. Benton, Geo. M. Lyon, George Stowe, J.B.
Russe ll and J . A. Mcilwaine." n . 12
1874 Confe r ence Minutes.
"Report of Committee in Case of lsaac Craword:--On motion the Committee remanded the ca qe back to the Flint District Conferenc e fo .r.a new
trral, by a una nimous vote. J. M. Fuller, Chairman. 11 p. 21.
His designation as "local elder" in 1873 shows tha t he was an M.E.
Local preacher with the ri ght to give Communion. Perhaps he wanted to
get ba ck into the active, t r ave ling ministry, a nd dmd not win the approval
of the Di s tric t Conference for this.