Description: Newspaper article on a commandment of Mormonism, written by Symonds Ryder in the Ohio Star, January 5, 1832. The Ohio Star was published in Ravenna, Ohio. Ryder was a Vermont native who settled in Hiram, Ohio, in 1815, and took up the Mormon faith around 1830. He eventually left the religion. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06772
Subjects: Newspapers; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Religion in Ohio
Places: Ravenna (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: The First United Methodist Church in Mansfield. The history of the Methodist Church goes as far back as the first half of the 18th Century. The driving force behind its founding and philosophy was a man named John Wesley, who was a student at Oxford at the time when the ideas of the Methodist Church were being formed by students interested in religious study. The church became relatively popular in the early days of the United States among those living in the rugged lands being settled. It would come to be widespread throughout the state of Ohio, drawing people in with its idea that all people may go to heaven. Controversy within the Church occurred over divisions about the teachings of John Wesley and the increasingly divisive issue of whether or not it was immoral to keep slaves. This caused multiple divisions within the church and it splintered into numerous separate Methodist denominations. After over 100 years of a divided church, the various Methodist churches joined together and eventually the United Methodist Church was formed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06732
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches--Ohio
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pioneer Sunday school illustration, from "Conquering the Wilderness; or, New Pictorial History of the Life and Times of the Pioneer Heroes and Heroines of America," by Colonel Frank Triplett, 1883. Sunday school is described by Triplett as "Another pioneer instrument in the field of education.... where morality and religion made a part of the curriculum, and where the Bible and the hymnal supplemented the text books of the district schools." (348) View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04028
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Religious education; Children
Places: Ohio
 

Description: A plaque for The First Presbyterian Church in Chillicothe, Ohio. The plaque reads: "On this corner stood the log cabin which was the First Presbyterian Church in the Scioto Valley built in 1792. Just to the north was the first burying ground. This tablet erected by the First Presbyterian Church 'The Old Rock'. " View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06771
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches--Ohio
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph captioned "Rev. Billy Sunday and His Party. Upper row from left to right--Dr. L.K. Peacock, Mrs. William Asher, Miss Grace Saxe, Rev. William Asher, B.D. Ackley. Lower row--Fred Seibert, Miss Frances Miller, Billy Sunday, Miss Annie McLaren, Homer A. Rodeheaver, W.H. Collison." William "Billy" Sunday was born in Iowa in 1862. He was a major-league baseball player in the 1880s before becoming an itinerant evangelical preacher. He visited large cities, giving talks for young men on Christian living and Prohibition under the employment of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). He was an avid supporter of Prohibition and strongly in opposition to scientific advancement which he saw as disproving the Bible. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4316_001
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Baseball players; YMCA of the USA--History; Prohibition;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Portiuncula Chapel on the grounds of the Order of the Sisters of St. Francis in Sylvania, Ohio. The organization dates back to around 1930, and formed for the betterment of the community as a whole. The organization has played an active role in providing education among other forms of community building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06783
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches--Ohio
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: A crucifix on the grounds of the Order of the Sisters of St. Francis in Sylvania, Ohio. The organization dates back to around 1930, and formed for the betterment of the community as a whole. The organization has played an active role in providing education among other forms of community building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06784
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches--Ohio
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: The main chapel on the grounds of the Order of the Sisters of St. Francis in Sylvania, Ohio. The organization dates back to around 1930, and formed for the betterment of the community as a whole. The organization has played an active role in providing education among other forms of community building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06785
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches--Ohio
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Nuns on the grounds of the Order of the Sisters of St. Francis in Sylvania, Ohio. The organization dates back to around 1930, and formed for the betterment of the community as a whole. The organization has played an active role in providing education among other forms of community building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06786
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches--Ohio
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in Tiffin. This church was home to early electrical illumination with an electric, brass chandelier. The history of the Methodist Church goes as far back as the first half of the 18th Century. The driving force behind its founding and philosophy was a man named John Wesley, who was a student at Oxford at the time when the ideas of the Methodist Church were being formed by students interested in religious study. The church became relatively popular in the early days of the United States among those living in the rugged lands being settled. It would come to be widespread throughout the state of Ohio, drawing people in with its idea that all people may go to heaven. Controversy within the Church occurred over divisions about the teachings of John Wesley and the increasingly divisive issue of whether or not it was immoral to keep slaves. This caused multiple divisions within the church and it splintered into numerous separate Methodist denominations. After over 100 years of a divided church, the various Methodist churches joined together and eventually the United Methodist Church was formed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06787
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches--Ohio
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is portrait of William "Billy" Sunday. Sunday was born in Iowa in 1862. He was a major-league baseball player in the 1880s before becoming an itinerant evangelical preacher. He visited large cities, giving talks for young men on Christian living and prohibition under the employment of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). He was an avid supporter of prohibition and opposition toward scientific advancement, which he saw as disproving the Bible. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04077
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Baseball players; YMCA of the USA--History; Prohibition
 

Description: A photo of Herbert Bigelow, born in Elkhart, Indiana, on January 4, 1870. He attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, and Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, before graduating from the latter institution in 1894. He then enrolled at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. He and his supporters founded the Direct Legislation League, which lobbied the state legislature for passage of the initiative and referendum. Ultimately these issues were addressed in Ohio's Constitutional Convention in 1912. Afterward he was elected to the state house of representatives for one term. He was opposed to America's entry into the First World War and was once kidnapped in Newport, Kentucky, shortly before he was to address a Socialist antiwar meeting there. In addition he served as a US Representative and on the Cincinnati City Council. Bigelow died in Cincinnati on November 11, 1951. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04090
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Lane Theological Seminary (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ohio--Politics and government
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio);