Description: Photograph of 1st Lieutenant and Chaplain Charles T. Isom posed in uniform and standing in front of tent, taken during his service in World War I. Isom (1880-1943) was a graduate of Denison University and Ohio University, and served as a chaplain in World War I. He was Executive Secretary of Ohio Baptist General Association for 24 years, and worked as editor of the Ohio Baptist News. In the 1930s, he moved to Dayton where he was Pastor of Bethel Baptist Church until his death in 1943. The Ohio Baptist General Association, an organization of African American Baptist churches with its headquarters in Columbus, was founded in 1895 as the Ohio Baptist State Convention and reorganized as the Ohio Baptist General Association in 1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P190_B02_04
Subjects: African American Ohioans; American Baptist Church--Clergy; Religion in Ohio; World War I, 1914-1918;
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom and wife Emma Ransom with unidentified individuals attending a child’s christening. Walker was the 66th Bishop of the the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th President of Wilberforce University. Ransom was the 28th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. A graduate of Wilberforce University, he also served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Wilberforce University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F07_P_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators; Religion in Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker and Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom with unidentified others after commencement at Wilberforce University. Walker was the 66th Bishop of the the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th President of Wilberforce University. Ransom was the 28th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. A graduate of Wilberforce University, he also served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Wilberforce University and was a delegate to the World Methodist Conference in Massachusetts in 1947. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F07_Q_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American Educators; Religion in Ohio
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker during the collection of the church assessments at the African Methodist Episcopal Church’s General Conference. Walker was the 66th Bishop of the the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th President of Wilberforce University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F07_S_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American Educators; Religion in Ohio
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio); Nashville (Tennessee)
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker with two unidentified young ladies standing in front of the gated area at the Wilberforce University football stadium. Walker was the 66th Bishop of the the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th President of Wilberforce University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F07_T_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American Educators; Religion in Ohio; Sports
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Bishop Reverdy Cassius Ransom. Bishop Ransom was the 28th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. A graduate of Wilberforce University, he also served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Wilberforce University and was a delegate to the World Methodist Conference in Massachusetts in 1947. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F08_F
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American Educators; Religion in Ohio
 

Description: These two photographs are views of the Church of the Covenant in Cleveland, Ohio. The Church of the Covenant, a Presbyterian church, located at 11205 Euclid Ave. in University Circle, was established in 1920 as a result of mergers of three churches. The Euclid St. (United) Presbyterian Church was originally located at Euclid and E. 14th St., and was organized in 1853. Known as the Euclid Ave. Church after 1880, it merged in 1906 with Beckwith Memorial Presbyterian Church (organized in 1885), located at Fairmount (E. 107th) St. and Deering St., and became the Euclid Ave. Presbyterian Church. In 1909 this church constructed an English Gothic building on land adjacent to Women's College of Western Reserve University. Designed by Cram and Ferguson, the building featured a rose window and a 140 foot tower between the parish house and sanctuary. In 1920 the Second Presbyterian Church (chartered in 1837), located at the corner of Prospect St. and E. 30th St., joined the Euclid Ave. Presbyterian Church at its Euclid Ave. location. The name was then changed to Church of the Covenant. The photographs are 5" x 7" (12.7 x 17.78 cm). The photographs were taken by Ihna Thayer Frary. The Ihna Thayer Frary Audiovisual Collection was given to the Ohio Historical Society by Mr. Frary in two sections. One was in March of 1963 and the remainder in May of 1965 by his sons, Dr. Spencer G. and Allen T. Frary following their father's death. I.T. Frary (1873-1965) was the publicity and membership secretary for the Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. He taught for many years at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Western Reserve University's School of Architecture. He did much research of Ohio and American architecture and was the author of seven major works and numerous scholarly articles on architectural and art history. One of his major works was Early Homes of Ohio published in 1936. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3374_5971294_001
Subjects: Religion in Ohio; Architecture; Churches
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated December 13, 1929, this photograph shows a building identified as First Congregational Church in an unidentified location in Ohio. Congregationalist churches are categorized as a movement rather than a denomination, and are characterized by autonomous operation in the Protestant tradition. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P51_B01F05_01
Subjects: Churches; Religion in Ohio; Historic buildings; Architecture
 

Description: In 1772, David Zeisberger, a missionary of the Moravian Church, established the village of Schoenbrunn on the Tuscarawas River, near present-day New Philadelphia. The word Schoenbrunn means "beautiful spring" in German. The purpose of this community was to provide Moravian missionaries a place to teach Christianity to Native Americans residing in Ohio. At its greatest size, Schoenbrunn had a population of four hundred Christian natives, mostly Delaware Indians, and more than sixty buildings, including the first school and Christian church built in Ohio. During the American Revolution, facing harassment from both the English and the Americans , Zeisberger and his followers abandoned Schoenbrunn in early 1778. They held a final service in the church, after which they tore down their house of worship to prevent its desecration. Schoenbrunn has since been rebuilt and is administered as an historic site by the Ohio Historical Society. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F01_017
Subjects: Religion in Ohio; Churches; Schoenbrunn (Ohio); Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808; New Philadelphia (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Schoenbrunn (Ohio); Tuscarawas (Ohio)
 

Description: Several log buildings along a stone pathway in Schoenbrunn Village. In 1772, David Zeisberger, a missionary of the Moravian Church, established the village of Schoenbrunn on the Tuscarawas River, near present-day New Philadelphia. The word Schoenbrunn means "beautiful spring" in German. The purpose of this community was to provide Moravian missionaries a place to teach Christianity to Native Americans residing in Ohio. At its greatest size, Schoenbrunn had a population of four hundred Christian natives, mostly Delaware Indians, and more than sixty buildings, including the first school and Christian church built in Ohio. During the American Revolution, facing harassment from both the English and the Americans , Zeisberger and his followers abandoned Schoenbrunn in early 1778. They held a final service in the church, after which they tore down their house of worship to prevent its desecration. Schoenbrunn has since been rebuilt and is administered as an historic site by the Ohio His View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F01_016
Subjects: Religion in Ohio; Churches; Schoenbrunn (Ohio); Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808; New Philadelphia (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawus County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop John Andrew Gregg and various other members of the African Methodist Episcopal church standing in front of Booker T. Washington’s statue entitled “Lifting the Veil of Ignorance” at the Tuskegee Institute. Dr. Booker T. Washington was the first president of the Tuskegee Institute. John Andrew Gregg was the 7th president of Wilberforce University and 49th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F08_R
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Tuskegee University; African American men; African American women; Religion in Ohio; African American Educators
Places: Tuskegee (Alabama)
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker standing at a construction site scanning his surroundings. Walker was the 66th Bishop of the the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th President of Wilberforce University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F09_A_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; Religion in Ohio; African American Educators