John Calvin Coons papers

Collection

Identifier: MSM-2010-011

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection includes Northwest Indiana Conference Methodist Historical Society Reports; Methodist Protestant handwritten lessons; budget; assembly ground; pastor's pocket diary; miscellaneous brochures and programs; miscellaneous letters; histories and clippings on various churches, including Bear Creek, Greenfield, Johnson Co., Jollity, Mansur Park, Marietta, Mt. Zion, New Haven, Tippecanoe. It also includes miscellaneous pictures and negatives.

Dates

1901 - 1963

Creator

Coons, John Calvin (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Biographical Note

John Calvin Coons was licensed to preach at age 20 and served student charges in Illinois. In 1901, he was ordained Elder in the South Illinois Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church, and in 1904, he was transferred to the Indiana Conference. Upon the union of the MPC and the MC, Rev. Coons became a member of the Northwest Indiana Conference. He was honored posthumously on the day of his death by the Lebanon Kiwanis Club, a recognition voted to him prior to his last illness. He died at the Indianapolis Methodist Hospital on Sept., 5, 1963.

Extent

0.4 Cubic Feet (1 document case)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Related Materials

Pictures, See Map Cabinet

Sound Filmstrip Combination set “This is Your Church” and “Becoming a Church”

Copy Negatives in MC 752, A Brief History of the Methodist Protestant Church in Indiana. The negatives were used in the book “The Methodist Protestant Church in Indiana 1839-1939”:

Mt. Zion Church, Boone Co., Ind. Hopewell Church, Randolph Co., Ind. Liberty Church, near site of original, near Stinesville, Monroe Co., Ind. East Fork Church, Guilford, Dearborn Co., Ind. Old St. John’s Church, Baltimore, Md., birthplace of the MP Church, Nov., 1828 Old Liberty Church (original), near Stinesville, Monroe Co., Ind. Jollity Church , Johnson Co., Ind. Concord Church, DeKalb Co., Ind. Rehobeth Church, DeKalb Co., Ind. New Salem Church, Rush Co., Ind. Rev. John C. Coons Rev. Samuel Morrison Rev. Thomas Shipp Rev. William H. Rogers H. V. Sharp C. H. Simons Rev. Hillis L. Avery Rev. Joseph or George Boxell (this is father and son but the same negative was used for both people) Rev. Sanford H. Flood Rev. Thomas H. Lewis Rev. J. L. Barclay Rev. E. T. Howe Rev. S. S. Stanton Rev. T. E. Lancaster Rev. F. M. Hussey Rev. J. O. Ledbetter Nicolas Snethen Jonathan Jennings Rev. Hugh Stackhouse Rev. David Wesley Evans G. L. Farrow Members of the President’s Cabinet (names not given) Unidentified pictures of people and of one church