Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library
Research Library
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Mss
1560
Oregon Historical
Society
Baptist Church collection
1827-1970
6 cubic feet
12 document cases, 1 flat box, 22 reels of
microfilm
Materials assembled by the Oregon
Historical Society and related to the Baptist Church in Oregon, the First
Baptist Church of Portland, Oregon, various Baptist churches throughout Oregon,
and general Baptist matters. Most materials date from the early 20th century
and include newsletters, periodicals, programs for services, by-laws, ephemera,
and a small amount of correspondence. Also included are scrapbooks related to
the First Baptist Church of Portland, kept by Kate Failing.
Materials in the collection are largely inEnglish
Originals of most microfilmed records are housed in the various
churches represented by the film.
Historical Note
In 1844 a Baptist church was established in a log cabin in West Union,
Washington County, Oregon Territory. Baptist missionaries Ezara Fisher and
Hezekiah Johnson came to the territory the following year. Throughout the 1840s
Baptist congregations were formed at McMinnville, Oregon City, Clatsom Plains,
Sodaville, Abiqua, and Turner. A church governing body, the Willamette Baptist
Association, began in West Union in 1848. In Portland, the First Baptist Church
was established in 1855 and the Mount Olivet Baptist Church was incorporated in
1929. Prominent figures in the early Oregon Baptist church were the preacher
Joab Powell, and Dr. George C. Chandler, who became president of McMinville
College.
The collection consists of materials assembled by the Oregon
Historical Society and related to the Baptist Church in Oregon, the First
Baptist Church of Portland, Oregon, various Baptist churches throughout Oregon,
and general Baptist matters. Most materials date from the early 20th century
and include newsletters, periodicals, programs for services, by-laws, ephemera,
and a small amount of correspondence. Also included are: materials related to
the career of Rev. James Whitcomb Brougher, the American Baptist Convention,
the Oregon Baptist Convention, and the Chinese Baptist Church of Portland.
Scrapbooks concerning the First Baptist Church of Portland, kept by Kate
Failing, include clippings, programs, invitations, and general ephemera.
The collection is arranged in the following series:
- Series A: First Baptist Church, Portland, Oregon,
1893-1970
- Series B: Other Oregon Baptist Churches, 1872-1969
- Series C: Baptist Churches, General, 1901-1964
- Series D: Kate Failing Scrapbooks, 1899-1948
- Series E: Microfilmed Records, 1827-1964
The collection is open to the public.
See also Microfilm 286, Oregon Historical Society Research Library,
for additional records of Baptist Church associations.
The Oregon Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the
Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication,
and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library
prior to any use of reproductions. The Society does not necessarily hold
copyright to all the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission
for use of reproductions may require seeking additional authorization from the
copyright holders.
Baptist Church collection, Mss 1560, Oregon Historical Society
Research Library
The collection was acquired from a variety of sources, including Kate
W. Failing, Henrietta C. Failing (1971), and the Chinese Baptist Church
(1975).
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Failing,
Kate Whittlesey
Brougher,
James Whitcomb
Failing family
American
Baptist Convention
Chinese
Baptist Church (Portland, Or.)
First
Baptist Church (Portland, Or.)
Oregon
Baptist Convention
Mount
Olivet Baptist Church (Portland, Or.)
Portland
(Or.)--History
Baptists--Oregon
Churches--Oregon--History
City
and Town Life
Oregon
Portland
Religion
Women
Newsletters
Photographs
Programs
Scrapbooks
The Oregon Baptist
Trumpeter (Portland, Or.)
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Series A
First Baptist Church, Portland, Oregon
1893-1970
Periodicals
The Trumpeter
1/1
1940-1943
Missing 1942
1/2
1944
1/3
1945
1/4
1946
1/5
1947
1/6
1948
1/7
1949
1/8
1950
1/9
1951
1/10
1952
1/11
1953
1/12
1954
1/13
1955
2/1
1956
2/2
1957
2/3
1958
2/4
1959
2/5
1960
2/6
1961
2/7
1962
2/8
1963
2/9
1964
2/10
1969-1971
The Oregon Baptist
2/11
1943-1946
2/12
1947-1949
2/13
1950-1951
2/14
1953-1954
2/15
1955-1956
3/1
1957-1960
3/2
1961-1968
General Files
Annual reports
3/3
1950-1960
3/4
1960-1962
3/5
1962-1964
3/6
1964-1966
3/7
1966-1968
3/8
Board of Christian Education--Annual
reports
1947-1950
3/9
Brougher, James Whitcomb, Reverend
1913-1914
undated
3/10
By-laws
1946-1959
undated
3/11
Committees
1944-1958
3/12
Dedication and history
1893-1950
3/13
Financial statements (incomplete run)
1936-1963
Programs for services
3/14
1902-1904
3/15
1905-1908
4/1
1912
4/2
1913 January-June
4/3
1913 July-December
4/4
1914
4/5
1915
4/6
1916-1918
Only program for 1918 is July 14th.
4/7
circa 1930-1939
4/8
Proposed budgets
1947-1970
4/9
Women's Baptist Mission Society--Yearbook
1958-1967
4/10
Women's Missionary Society
1955-1965
4/11
Women's Society
1947-1967
5/1
Women's Society--Yearbooks
1938-1957
5/2-3
General ephemera
circa 1900-1963
Series B
Other Oregon Baptist Churches
1872-1969
5/4
Chinese Baptist Church, Portland--Ephemera (3
items)
1875
undated
Mount Olivet Baptist Church (Portland, Or.)
5/5
Baptist Association
1935-1947
5/6
Church officers (including articles of incorporation
and budget)
1945-1963
5/7
Correspondence
1945-1948
5/8
Statistics
1941-1968
5/9
Death lists
1936-1963
5/10
Gains--Baptism (baptism lists)
1936-1964
5/11
Gains by letter
1938-1965
5/12
Gains--Christian experiences
1936-1964
5/13
Programs
1942-1945
5/14
Reports
1935-1946
5/15
Salem First Baptist Church--Programs
(incomplete)
1914-1950
5/16
Various Oregon Baptist Churches
1872-1969
undated
Series C
Baptist Churches, General
1901-1964
6/1
American Baptist Convention--Reports
1956
1959
6/2
American Baptist Missionary Union
1909-1910
undated
6/3
Baptist Young People's Union--Ephemera
1908
1915
undated
6/4
Conventions, general
1951-1958
6/5
Northern Baptist Convention--Bulletins, programs,
"Campus directory"
1907-1909
1945
Oregon Baptist Convention
6/6
Annual meetings
1908-1963
6/7
Annual reports (incomplete)
1944-1962
6/8
Budgets
1958-1963
6/9
Constitution and by-laws
1950
undated
6/10
Willamette Baptist Association
1901-1954
6/11
Women's Baptist Mission Society
1942-1964
6/12
The worker
(newsletter)
1952-1953
6/13
General materials and ephemera
1908-1960
undated
Series D
Kate Failing Scrapbooks
1899-1948
Scrapbooks contain news clippings, programs, ephemera,
invitations, a small number of letters, and a few photographs. Most materials
pertain to the First Baptist Church in Portland, but also to other Baptist
activities, friends, and local events.
7/1
Old volume 106
1899-1904
7/2
Old volume 92
1904 February-1905 January
7/3
Old volume 93
1905 January-June
8/1
Old volume 94
1905 June-December
8/2
Old volume 95
1905 December-1906 April
8/3
Old volume 96
1906 April-1906 December
9/1
Old volume 97
1907 January-1907 December
9/2
Old volume 98
1907 December-1908 November
9/3
Old volume 99
1908 December-1909 June
10/1
Old volume 100
1909 June
10/2
Old volume 101
1909 June-1909 September
10/3
Old volume 102
1909 September-1910 May
11/1
Old volume 103
1910 June-1911 April
11/2
Old volume 104
1911 April-1911 November
11/3
Old volume 105
1911 November-1912 August
12/1
Old volume 17
1919
Contains letters, momentos, ephemera, and photographs from Kate
Failing's Sunday school students, given to her on her departure for India.
13/1
Old volume 16
1916
13/2
Old volume 18
1945-1948
Series E
Microfilmed records
1827-1964
All records are for Oregon churches unless otherwise
specified.
1
Various Oregon churches and Baptist
organizations
1846-1939
- Yamhill Baptist Church, 1846-1897
- Clackamas Baptist Church, 1853-1876
- Oregon City Baptist Church, 1827-1868, 1889-1904
- Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Oregon,
1894-1912
- Women's Baptist Missionary Union of Oregon,
1902-1910
2
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church (Portland, Or.?)
1935-1963
3
First Baptist Church of Albany--Records, volume
3-4
1906 July 1-1926 Decemember 19
4
Bethany Baptist Church (Washington County,
Or.)--Records
1876-1934
5
Hillsboro Baptist Church--Records
1847-1856
6
First Baptist Church of Portland--Minutes
1854-1906
7
First Baptist Church of Goose Valley and Pine Creek,
Siskyou County, California
undated
8
First Baptist Church, (Lacomb, Linn County,
Oregon)--Register
1896-1948
9
First Baptist Church of La Grande,
Or.--Minutes
1901 May-1915 December
1925 April-1940 April
10
Mispah Primitive Baptist Church of Touchet,
Washington--Records
1913-1952
11
McMinnville First Baptist Church
1867-1951
12
University Park Baptist Church, Portland (including
records of Peninsula Baptist Church, 1923-1925)
1905 May 17-1940 April 24
13
First Baptist Church of Eugene--Records
1852-1881
1889-1937
14
Central Baptist Association--Abstracts of letters and
correspondence
1857-1888
15
Various Oregon churches
1873-1926
- First Baptist Church of Albany, 1889-1926
- First Baptist Church of Portland, 1913-1923
- Immanuel Baptist Church, Portland, 1887-1912
- Chinese Mission School, Portland, 1873-1885
16
First Baptist Church, Salem
1859-1937
17
West Union Baptist Church
1844 May 25-1879 March
1903 December-1904 May
1913 October
18
Third Baptist Church, Portland--Minutes and records
(name changed from Albina Baptist Church in 1894)
1890 September-1922 February
1927 October-1942 February
19
Pleasant Butte Baptist Church (name changed to Baptist
Church of Brownsville)
1865 November-1883 January
1883 February-1949 April
20
First Baptist Church of St. John's, Portland (includes
Peninsula Baptist)
1905 July-1964 January
21
Various Oregon churches
1853-1929
- Providence Baptist Church, Linn County, 1853 May-1886
August
- Fairway Baptist Church, Suver, Polk County,
1913-1925
- Swedish Baptist Church of Powell Valley, Clackamas
County, 1909-1929
22
Prineville Union Church Associaion, First Baptist Church
of Prineville
1889-1936
23
Various Oregon churches
1856-1945
- North Palestine Baptist Church, 1856-1945
- Scio Baptist Church, 1859-1933
- Independence First Baptist Church, 1889-1936