Coons, John Calvin - Methodist Protestant
MC 187
ARCHIVES OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY
AND INDIANA UNITED METHODISM
Biographical Sketch
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.Collection Statement
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.MC 187
Folder 1 Northwest Indiana Conference--The Methodist Historical Society Reports
2 Methodist Protestant--History, Doctrine and Policy (MS)
3 Methodist Protestant--Lesson 1
4 Methodist Protestant--Lesson 2 Policy
5 Methodist Protestant--Lesson 3
6 Methodist Protestant--Lesson 4 The Budget
7 Methodist Protestant--Lesson 5
8 Methodist Protestant--Alternative Lesson
9 Methodist Protestant--First Session
10 Methodist Protestant--Budget
11 Methodist Protestant--Indiana Conference
12 Methodist Protestant--Assembly Ground
13 Pastor's Pocket Diary
14 Bear Creek
15 Greenfield
16 Johnson County
17 Jollity
18 Mansur Park
19 Marietta
20 Mt. Zion (Clinton or Howard County)
21 New Haven
22 Tippecanoe
23 Miscellaneous Notes
24 Letters
25 Hugh Fulton
26 Isaac Welch
27 J.C. Wright
28 A Narration of Facts
29 Brochures & Programs
30 The Methodist Record--Scattered Dates
31 Record of the Faculty of Instruction of the Indiana Conference, 1912-1939
See Also:Pictures--See Map Cabinet
Negatives in Vault--History of the Indiana M. P. Church
Sound Filmstrip Combination set in vault--"This is Your Church"
"Becoming a Church"
List of Negatives in the Vault
These negatives (or most of them) were used in the book "The Methodist Protestant Church in Indiana 1839-1939":
Mt. Zion Church, Boone Co., IN
Hopewell Church, Randolph Co., IN
Liberty Church, near site of original, near Stinesville, Monroe Co., IN
East Fork Church, Guilford, Dearborn Co., IN
Old St. John's Church, Baltimore, MD, birthplace of the MP Church, Nov., 1828
Old Liberty Church (original), near Stinesville, Monroe Co., IN
Jollity Church , Johnson Co., IN
Concord Church, DeKalb Co., IN
Rehobeth Church, DeKalb Co., IN
New Salem Church, Rush Co., IN
Rev. John C. CoonsRev. 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
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