ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202
COLLECTION: OGL #152
DATES: 1881-1938
SIZE: .50 linear feet
ACQUISITION: The First Baptist Church of Grand Forks Records were deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection. The acquisition records are unavailable.
ACCESS: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.
RELATED COLLECTIONS:
OGL#759, Federated Church Records
RELATED PUBLICATIONS:
A History of the First Baptist Church of Grand Forks,
North Dakota, J. Duane Squires (1931)
10th Anniversary Observance: The Federated Church, (1956)
We Remember Old Times at Church in North Dakota’s Centennial Year,
1989
The First Baptist Church was organized October 16, 1881. Charter members were: Lucinda and Leroy H. Carter, Sarah Fletcher, Mr. And Mrs. W.A. Bruce, Thomas Griffin, Isaac Stiles, John S. and Rachel Milne, John W. Skidmore and E.G. Rice. The first pastor was C.Y. Snell, who preached his first sermon on March 12, 1882. The first church “chapel,” a small, modest building, was dedicated on March 4, 1883, followed by the first baptism a week later. A larger church was dedicated in late 1887.
In 1945, First Baptist Church and Plymouth Congregational Church merged to form The Federated Church of Grand Forks.
The First Baptist Church of Grand Forks Records consist of the Clerk’s record books of Church meeting minutes for 1881-1911, the journal of Annual Meeting minutes for 1914-1938 and copies of The Baptist Bulletin from 1896 and 1897. The Baptist Bulletinwas a monthly periodical published in Grand Forks.
Box 1
Folder
| Original Donation | First Addition: 1914-1931 |
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