St. Johns Lutheran Church of Potter records
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Contains a one volume register listing baptisms, confirmations, communicants, marriages, members and deaths (1841-1888) and one volume of congregational meeting minutes (1849-1921) which deal with the temporal affairs of the church. Records are primarily in German until 1912 when a constitutional change allowed services in both languages. Thereafter most records are in English.
Dates
- 1841-1921.
Creator
- St. John's Lutheran Church of Potter (Potter, N.Y.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY
Between 1828 and 1850 German Lutheran residents of Potter worshipped together in private homes or at the Boak Methodist Church in a group founded by Dr. Frederic Dutch, Jacob Shuman and Nicholas Heisler. In 1849 a meeting was held to plan building a church which was called Christ Church when completed in 1850. In 1856 the church changed its name to the Elsasser Congregation (a majority of its members being from Alsace) and in 1861 a committee was appointed to build a parsonage and a school room. In 1866 a new constitution was adopted and the church incorporated as the Evangelisch Lutherische Gemeinde. In 1919 the corporate name was changed to St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Potter and Vicinity. A list of pastors and additional details are found in the accession folder.
Extent
1 microfilm reels. (1 microfilm reels.)
Abstract
One volume register listing baptisms, confirmations, communicants, marriages, members and deaths and one volume of congregational meeting minutes which document the temporal affairs of the church.
Physical Description
Microfilm.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- W.D.S.L.
- Date completed:
- June 1980
- EAD encoding:
- Andrea Hektor, Aug. 2004
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, February 2015
- Baptismal certificates.
- Christ Church (Potter, N.Y.)
- Church records and registers -- New York (State) -- Potter.
- Elsasser Congregation (Potter, N.Y.)
- Evangelisch Lutherische Gemeinde (Potter, N.Y.)
- Lutheran Church -- New York (State) -- Potter.
- Lutherans, German -- New York (State) -- Potter.
- Minutes.
- Potter (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Yates County (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by W.D. and S.L.
- Date
- August 10, 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu