Collections

The Michigan Conference of the United Church of Christ was formed from the merger of the Michigan Conference of the Congregational Church and the Michigan-Indiana Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church. The record group includes retired records of individual associations, conferences, and local churches. Also included are files on churches and pastors within the Conference.

This record group is comprised primarily of records of the associations and conferences that make up the United Church of Christ Michigan Conference. The records document the mergers between smaller conferences to make the larger ones of today. These records are largely made up of correspondence, minutes, agendas, conference materials, and programming information.

Besides records of the individual associations and conferences, the collection also contains an extensive amount of records from individual churches, which can be found in the "Records from individual churches" and the "Church files" series. Because their relationship to each other is unknown, these series were not combined. The "Church files" series are records that may have been stored by the Michigan Conference rather than the individual churches. The "Records from individual churches" concerns materials that belonged to the individual churches. Whether these churches belonged to the smaller associations that make up the Michigan Conference is unknown. Therefore, they were kept separate. More information on these series can be found in the individual series' description below.

The record group has been arranged into the following series: Michigan Conference; Associations and conferences; Woman's Home Missionary Union and related; Records from individual churches; Annual Meetings of Michigan Congregational Conference and of the United Church of Christ; Evangelical and Reformed Church; Church files; Photographs; Ministerial files; and Student ministry.

Formerly known as the Kalamazoo Congregational Association (1849-1938) and the Kalamazoo Association of Congregational-Christian Churches of Michigan (1938-1963). Correspondence, minutes, directories, membership records, and records of some churches in the association.

The record group includes minutes of annual meetings, correspondence, communications between the Association and the local churches, and other records documenting the organization and activities of the Association. Most of the records pertain to the period before the merger with the Evangelical and Reformed Church.

The series in the record group include: Record books; General correspondence; Church files; Other Records; and Conference Miscellaneous.

Association formed from the merger of the Grand Traverse, Lake Superior, and Cheboygan associations of the Congregational Church (later the United Church of Christ). Administrative records of the association and of the associations from which it was formed.

This record group contains both the records of the Grand Traverse, Lake Superior, and Cheboygan Associations prior to restructuring, and the records of efforts leading to the formation of the United Northern Association. Despite the absence of the early records of the Grand Traverse and Cheboygan Associations, this record group documents attitudes concerning the denominations which fused to form the United Church of Christ, as well as the organizational restructuring which occurred in the late 1970s.

The records of the Northern Association of the United Church of Christ are divided into five series: Michigan Conference, United Northern Association, Grand Traverse Association, Lake Superior Association, and Cheboygan Association.

Record books and other records, including minutes, correspondence, annual reports, directories, newsletters and other materials relating to their activities, as well as historical essays.

The UCC Women records are mainly composed of records from the organization's meetings and information for the annual retreats. Records are from as early as 1915, and are available for most years from 1945-1962 and all years from 1962-2008. The records are divided into three series. Record books, Annual Records, and Other Records.

Minutes, rosters of ministers, and statistical and financial records; also retired records of individual Presbyterian churches, including the; and miscellaneous synodical files.

The record group includes record books of defunct Presbyterian churches within the Presbytery. Most of these are Detroit churches: Cadillac Boulevard, Broadstreet United, Third Street Union Mission Sunday School, Church of the Redeemer, Forest Avenue, Marston Avenue, and the Welsh United. Also included are Hamtramck United Presbyterian Church, Waterford Center Presbyterian Church, and Ida Presbyterian Church. A valuable source of information about the churches of the Presbytery is the Church Files series which includes annual reports, membership directories, clippings, and other materials relating to church activities. The Administrative records and topical files is of value for evidence of the church's role in issues of race and poverty. The minutes of Presbytery meetings contain the earliest records of the organization dating back to 1828.

Now known as Mackinac Presbytery. Minutes, 1857-1961, roll of presbytery, 1893-1960; treasurer's account book, 1895-1931; histories, 1876 and 1887; correspondence, 1921-1926, concerning Stanton Fund and dissolution of Hessel church; and miscellaneous.

The organizational records include minutes, 1857-1961, roll of presbytery, 1893-1960; treasurer's account book, 1895-1931; histories, 1876 and 1887; correspondence, 1921-1926, concerning Stanton Fund and dissolution of Hessel church; and miscellaneous.

Administrative unit of the Michigan Synod of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., established in 1866 and disbanded in 1962, the Lansing Presbytery covered at various times Calhoun, Barry, Eaton, Jackson, Ingham, and Clinton and portions of Shiawassee and Livingston counties. Records include minutes of presbytery meetings and other administrative files.

The records of the Presbytery of Lansing of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. span the 90 year life of the presbytery's existence from its establishment in 1870 through its dissolution and realignment in 1961.

Youth ministry of the Presbyterian Church, Michigan Synod. Minutes of meetings, notebooks of the Westminster Fellowship, bulletins, and other miscellanea.

The record group includes minutes of meetings, notebooks of the Westminster Fellowship, bulletins, and other miscellanea.

Lansing, Michigan bureau of United Press International. Collected informational files relating to news and events in the state of Michigan. The files consist mainly of UPI wire reports, press releases, correspondence, and clippings. The files also include collected biographical information about, and distributed press releases from, Michigan legislators.

The UPI State Capitol Bureau informational files collection is broken up into two series: Background Files, and Michigan Politician Files. Each series has been retained in its original order with original folder headings.

The 27th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Portraits of members, mainly officers, of the 27th Michigan Infantry during the Civil War.

This collection consists of portraits of members, mainly officers, of the 27th Michigan Infantry during the Civil War.