Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains written memorials and eulogies for members of the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends/Oregon Yearly Meeting from 1889-2003.

Summary On Feb. 7, 1894, the Rosedale Park Friends Church, Salem, Oreogn, was organized at Liberty School with about 20 members. By the next year all meetings were being held at Hope Chapel (a Methodist church). Anson Cox was the first pastor. A new church building was dedicated in October of 1899. In 1918, then Pastor Chester A. Hadley proposed to unite the two churches. Milo Ross served his first pastorate at Rosedale from 1933-36. Records include written histories (including church and...

Content Description From the Collection: The Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends was founded in 1893 based out of Newberg, Oregon. It includes Evangelical Quaker meetings in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho among it's Congregations. The main administrations, the Northwest Yearly Meeting Headquarters, based out of Newberg, is led by a Superintedent. These records contain information about the work of this administrative body and reports made to them by member meetings. It includes records of peacemaking conferences and teaching,...

Summary Work at Talent, Oregon, began as prayer meetings in April of 1943 with the help of Milo Ross, Lillian Frazier, and Lily Welburn, among others. Talent Friends Church began meeting regularly at a Baptist church on Oct. 3, 1943. George and Elenita Bales served as pastors after Milo Ross. Talent officially became a church on Apr. 8, 1949. The congregation moved in to a newly constructed church building on June 8, 1952. In 1982, a remodeled and enlarged church building was dedicated. Records...