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Elyria First Methodist Church Chronicle of Growth and Build
The Elyria First Methodist Episcopal Church charts a century of growth from 1887 to 1925, highlighting pastorates Rev. E C Byr, Rev. Fred A Gould, Rev G A Reeder, Rev T Wallis Grose, Rev William B Winters, and Rev Edwin Kirby. It details large building projects, financing, and community expansion driven by steel industry growth in Elyria and nearby Lorain, with notes on key members, mergers, and the 1925 dedication.
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Cleveland
E. C. Byron
Prancher
Franklin Avenue
Old North Ohio
Elyria
Cincinnati
Fred A. Gould
General Conference
Gould
North Ohio
John P. Newman
Second Street
G. A. Reeder
Httle
Rain Ohio
Lorain
Brother Reeder
Methodist Church
Johnstown
Vicalry
Pennsylvania
Western Reserve Methodists
Schrecongasts
Rankings
Williams
Bates
Ohio
Dawson
W. C. Dawson
Aittle
T. Wallis Grose
Wellington
Aew
Henry Ostram
John P. Hillis
William F. Anderson
Camden M. Coburn
Allegheny College
Grose
First Church
Mansfield
Samuel L. Stewart
1St Church
Bristol
Minneapolis
East Ohio Conference
Stewart
Epworth League
William B. Winters
Winters
Canton
Edwin Kirby
Elytra
W. B. Winters
Cambridge
Ohi
Elyra
House of God
Kirby
Sixth Street
Henry Heldrich
J. F. Burke
Geo. H. Chamberlain
A. >. Bates
H. C. Schaeble
Rite Rudin
M. M. Wilcox
Theodore S. Henderson
Ralph W. Lockman
New York City
W. B. Ham
Youngstown
J. F. Alton
E. Stanley Jones
India
Roland M. Johnson
Elyria Savings & Trust Company
Morte Sage
First Methodist Episcopal Church of
Board of Trustees
State of
Methodist Episcopal Church Society of
Pras
M. E. Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Akron
A. E. Piper
Piper
Reading
EB. J. Bond
E. J. Bond
Elizabeth Stevens
Griswold
South America
Margie Crabtrea
Philippines
Ada Smith
Korea
Bhose
Ofwipria