Rosedale Friends Church, 1929-1996
Content description
Records include written histories (including church and cemetery), minutes, reports, membership records, programs, business and financial documents, centennial papers, cemetary records/map, scrapbook, newspaper clippings, bulletins, and photographs.
Dates
- 1929-1996
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is available for research.
Historical note
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.
Extent
0.5 Cubic Feet (This collection shares a record box with another church)
Language of Materials
English
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 cemetery), minutes, reports, membership records, programs, business and financial documents, centennial papers, cemetary records/map, scrapbook, newspaper clippings, bulletins, and photographs.
Repository Details
Part of the George Fox University and Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Archives Repository