Other Michigan Methodist Publications
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Conference Histories
- Bragg, Charles I. A Brief History of the Michigan Annual Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. (Unpublished). See related materials here.
- Dixon, Barbara. A Forgotten Heritage: The German Methodist Church. (Milford, OH: Little Miami Publishing Company, 2011). - Michigan’s German Methodist churches are described in chapters 13-17.
- Geschichte der Zentral deutschen konferenz, einschliesslich der anfangsgeschichte des deutschen Methodismus [Story of the Central German Conference, including the initial history of German Methodism]. (Cincinnati, Ohio: Jennings & Graham, 1907). - This entire book is in German, but in 1975 researcher Julie M. Overton created a typed record extracting and translating much of the key information about ministers and churches.
- Inventory of the Church Archives of Michigan: Evangelical Church Michigan Conference. (Detroit: Michigan Historical Records Survey Project, 1941).
- Macmillan, Margaret B. The Methodist Church in Michigan: The Nineteenth Century. (Grand Rapids: Michigan Area Methodist Historical Society, 1967).
- MacNaughton, A. Douglas. The Methodist Church in Michigan: The Twentieth Century. (Grand Rapids: Michigan Area United Methodist Church Historical Society, 1976).
- Pellowe, William C. S. Some Methodist Shrines of Michigan. (Historical Society of the Detroit Annual Conference, 1953).
- Pilcher, Elijah H. Protestantism in Michigan: Being a Special History of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Incidentally of Other Denominations. (Detroit: R.D.S. Tyler & Co., 1878). - He joined the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church on trial in 1829 and began serving Michigan churches the following year.
- Prescott, William Ray. The Fathers Still Speak: a History of Michigan Methodism. (Lansing: Michigan Printing Service, 1941). - The focus is on the earliest years.
- Ruotsolainen, Kaarlo. Historic Facts of Finnish Methodist Episcopal Churches of Upper Michigan. (Unpublished typescript).
- Watson, William H. History of the Michigan Conference of the Evangelical Church, 1838-1940. (Harrisburg, PA: Evangelical Press, 1942).
- Watson, William H. and A. Laverne Spafford. History of the Michigan Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. (The Conference, 1961). - This includes a section on the history of the Michigan Conference of the United Brethren Church prior to the merger with the Evangelical Church.
- Watson, William H. Supplement to the History, Michigan Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, 1960-1968.
Methodist Missions to Native Americans
- Copway, George. Life, History and Travels of KAH-GE-GA-GAH-BOWH (George Copway). (Albany, New York, Weed and Parsons, 1847). - Copway was a Native American chief in the Lake Superior District who converted to Christianity in the 1830s and then assisted the missionaries in their work.
- Hall, B. M. The Life of Rev. John Clark (New York, Carlton & Porter, 1856). - Beginning in 1833, Clark headed the mission serving Native Americans in the Lake Superior region.
- 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. - He served as a missionary among Native Americans in various areas in the Lower Peninsula during the 1840s.
- Johnson, Charles J. The Beginnings of Methodism in the Lake Superior Region.(Detroit, Michigan Christian Advocate Publishing Company, 1934).
- Leonard, Adna Bradway. Report on Indian Missions in the States of New York, Michigan, and Wisconsin. (New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1890). - Leonard was Corresponding Secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society and Board of Foreign Missions and reports on his visits to several of his church's missions to Native Americans.
- 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 a Michigan Ojibwa who became a Methodist Episcopal missionary to other Native Americans during the 19th century.
- 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.
- Prindle, Cyrus. Memoir of the Rev. Daniel Meek Chandler. (Middlebury: Ephraim Maxham, 1842). - Chandler served as a missionary among Native Americans at Kewawenon and Sault Ste. Marie in the 1830s.
- Reuter, Dorothy. Methodist Indian Ministries in Michigan, 1830-1990. (Michigan Area United Methodist Historical Society, 1993). - Copies of this book can be purchased from the Michigan Conference Archives.
- Sagatoo, Mary. WAH SASH KAH MOQUA or Thirty-Three Years Among the Indians. (Boston, Charles A. White Company, 1897). - She was not a Native American, but married one and moved to Michigan where she worked with the Ojibwa at Saganing on Saginaw Bay.
- Shaw, James. Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in Kansas. (Atkinson, Kansas, 1886). - Chapter one discusses his work as Presiding Elder of the Lake Superior District between 1852 and 1856.