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Trinity Episcopal Church Records

 Collection — Box: 1-5
Identifier: MS-531

Collection Scope and Content Summary

Minutes of annual, vestry and women's auxiliary meetings, Altar Guild Society, and the Rector's Aid Society of Trinity Church, correspondence, parish registers, marriage records and church service registers. Also included are the founding documents with the articles of agreement. Additionally, partial records of several smaller Episcopal churches in Michigan with connections to Trinity Episcopal Church, including St. Luke's Church of Dollar Bay, St. George's Church of Hancock, St. Mary's Church of Painesdale and St. Peter's Church of South Range/Winona.

Dates

  • 1860-1989

Language of Material

English

Conditions Governing Access

Available for use in the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections.

Conditions Governing Use

Various copying restrictions apply. Guidelines are available from Michigan Technological University Archives & Copper Country Historical Collections.

Biography

Trinity Episcopal Church of Houghton, Michigan, was established in 1860. A copper mining boom had recently attracted numerous people to the area, including many miners, mining captains, and shopkeepers from Cornwall, England. To establish an Episcopal congregation in the community, nine prominent businessmen agreed to support a clergyman if the Bishop of the Diocese of Michigan would send one. The Quincy Mining Company donated land in the village of Hancock on which to construct a church building. However, soon after the wooden building was erected, the vestry decided to move the church to Houghton. A contractor was eventually hired to lift the building off its foundation and to carry it across the canal, where it served as the first church home of the new Episcopal congregation. Between 1907 and 1910 the wooden building was razed and the current stone building constructed. (excerpted from "History of Trinity Episcopal Church", http://www.trinityhoughton.org/).

Extent

2.14 Cubic Feet (4 manuscript boxes (3 legal, 1 letter), 1 flat box)

Abstract

Records, 1860-1989, of Trinity Episcopal Church of Houghton, Michigan. Includes minutes of annual, vestry and women's auxiliary meetings, correspondence, parish registers, marriage records and church service registers. Also included are the founding documents with the articles of agreement. Additionally, partial records of several smaller Episcopal churches in Michigan with connections to Trinity Episcopal Church, including St. Luke's Church of Dollar Bay, St. George's Church of Hancock, St. Mary's Church of Painesdale and St. Peter's Church of South Range/Winona.

Arrangement

MS-531 Trinity Episcopal Church Records is arranged into four series:

Series I, Church Registers and Records Books, 1860-1986 Series II, Minutes, 1882-1918 Series III, Annual Meetings/ Reports, 1957-1989 Series IV, Related Congregations, 1897-1918

Acquisition

An initial gift of two cubic feet consisting of church registers and minutes from 1860-1986 was donated to the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections on November 17, 1995 by Reverend Steven Powers. A second donation of 0.35 cubic feet consisting of annual reports was made by Reverend Powers on August 18, 1997.

Title
Trinity Episcopal Church Records
Status
Completed
Author
Elizabeth Russell, revised by Rachael Bussert
Date
12/23/2009
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English
Sponsor
Funding provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Repository Details

Part of the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections Repository

Contact:
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton 49931 U.S.A. US