Container List
Secretarial Records
bMS 324/1 (1) Record book, 1827-1880. Includes: minutes, October 1827-October 1836, of
General Convention of Universalists of the Western States (variously Convention of
Universalists of the Western States, 1827-1832, and Western Convention of Universalists,
1832-1834); minutes, October 1837-June 1880, of Ohio State Convention of Universalists
(after 1871: Ohio Universalist Convention), containing constitutions, Act of Incorporation
(1854), copies of documents concerning Buchtel College (1870).
bMS 324/2 (1) Ohio Universalist Convention. Record book. Includes: minutes, 3 June
1896-22 June 1922.
bMS 324/3 (1) Ohio Universalist Convention. Record book. Includes: minutes, 22 June
1922-26 May 1930.
bMS 324/3 (2) Ohio Universalist Convention. Record book. Includes: minutes, 22 June
1930-15 April 1937.
bMS 324/4 (1) Ohio Universalist Convention/ Universalist Church of Ohio. Record book.
Includes: minutes, 15 April 1937-18 June 1948.
bMS 324/4 (2) Universalist Church of Ohio. Record book. Includes minutes, 17 June
1948-16 June 1951.
bMS 324/5 (1) Universalist Church of Ohio. Record book. Includes: minutes, 7 July
1951-14 June 1958.
bMS 324/5 (2) Universalist Church of Ohio. Record book. Includes: minutes 14 June
1958-26 April 1963.
bMS 324/6 (1) Constitutions of the Ohio Universalist Convention, 1901, 1912, 1928.
bMS 324/6 (2) Certificates and correspondence concerning continuing corporate
existence, 1904-1905, 1958-1963.
bMS 324/6 (3) Certificates and correspondence concerning change of name from Ohio State
Convention of Universalists to Ohio Universalist Convention (recorded with state 1888),
and to Universalist Church of Ohio (1946, recorded 1951).
bMS 324/6 (4) Convention programs, newsletters, printed reports, 1916-1944.
bMS 324/6 (5) Convention programs, newsletters, printed reports, 1945-1954; register,
1952; draft report concerning role of minister, n.d.
bMS 324/6 (6) Universalist Church of Ohio. Abstracts of minutes, 1950, 1954, 1956.
bMS 324/6 (7) Superintendent's reports, May 1946-April 1947.
bMS 324/6 (8) Superintendent's reports, August 1947-April 1950.
bMS 324/6 (9) Superintendent's reports, October 1950-April 1953.
bMS 324/6 (10) Superintendent's reports, August 1953-April 1955.
bMS 324/6 (11) Superintendent's reports, July 1955-April 1957. Includes resolution on
Unitarian Universalist merger by Cleveland Unitarian Church.
bMS 324/6 (12) Superintendent's reports, November 1957-April 1960. Includes: report of
extension minister, February 1958; recommendations of Scholarships Committee, February
1959.
bMS 324/6 (13) Superintendent's reports, July 1960-April 1963; two undated (1963)
essays.
bMS 324/6 (14) Correspondence of officers, 1914-1915.
bMS 324/6 (15) Correspondence, 1947. Includes letters between Donald K. Evans, State
Superintendent, and Clarence Russell Skinner (1881-1949).
bMS 324/6 (16) Correspondence, 1948.
bMS 324/6 (17) Correspondence, 1949-1951.
bMS 324/6 (18) Correspondence, 1952.
bMS 324/6 (19) Correspondence, 1953-1956.
bMS 324/6 (20) Correspondence, 1957-1960.
bMS 324/6 (21) Reports of Universalist Church of America General Field Worker on Ohio
churches and convention, 1942, 1943; program of Camp Buckeye, 1948; extension minister's
form letters, 1957.
bMS 324/6 (22) Clippings, notes, on history of Universalism in Ohio.
bMS 324/6 (23) Photographs: convention groups, 1889, 1907, 1924; miscellaneous.
Financial Records
bMS 324/7 (1) Treasurer's account book, 1914-1923.
bMS 324/7 (2) List of bequests from previous account book.
bMS 324/7 (3) Treasurer's account book, 1923-1929.
bMS 324/7 (4) Papers from previous account book, including list of addresses, list of
deeds to local churches held by Convention.
bMS 324/7 (5) Treasurer's account book, 1929-1934.
bMS 324/7 (6) Account book, including special bequests, aid to churches, personal
pledges, quota account, 1914-1917. With partial index.
bMS 324/7 (7) Account book, including endowment funds, annuity funds, bonds, list of
churches sold, 1911-1934.
bMS 324/8 (1) Account book, 1904-1915.
bMS 324/8 (2) Account book, 1903-1914.
bMS 324/9 (1) Account book, 1914-1926.
bMS 324/9 (2) Account book, 1926-1930.
bMS 324/9 (3) Auditor's reports, 1938-1939.
bMS 324/9 (4) Auditor's reports, 1940-1941.
bMS 324/9 (5) Auditor's reports, 1942-1944.
bMS 324/9 (6) Auditor's reports, 1947-1950.
bMS 324/9 (7) Auditor's reports, 1951-1955.
bMS 324/9 (8) Auditor's reports, 1956-1960.
bMS 324/9 (9) Inventory of Ohio Universalist Convention records in Ohio Historical
Society, 1967; bibliography on Universalism in Ohio prepared by Universalist Historical
Society Librarian, 1973.