Elementos de identidad
Código de referencia
Nombre y localización del repositorio
Nivel de descripción
Título
Fecha(s)
- 1571-1967 (Creación)
Extensión
62 cubic feet
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
Philip William Otterbein (1726-1813) was born June 3, 1726 in Dillenburg, Germany. In 1748 he was approved a candidate for ministry and was ordained in 1749. He volunteered to go to American to fill vacant pulpits among the German Reformed in 1752. He was soon called to the congregation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He married Susan LeRoy of Lancaster, in 1762. She died in 1768 and he remained a widower for the rest of his life. In 1767 he attended a meeting where he heard Martin Boehm, Mennonite bishop, preach. This occasion began a friendship which furnished roots for a religious movement that eventually was to culminate in the formation of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Perhaps at the urging of Francis Asbury, Otterbein assumed charge of an independent Reformed congregation in Baltimore, Maryland in 1774. A close friendship developed between Asbury and Otterbein. Never intending to begin a new church, Otterbein and a group of laymen and ministers began to meet regularly for greater spirituality and inward piety. This eventually resulted in a breakaway and the formation of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Otterbein and Boehm became its first bishops. Otterbein participated in Asbury's consecration and ordination as bishop December 27, 1784 in Baltimore, Maryland. Otterbein never fully recovered from a serious illness in 1805. He remained in Baltimore until his death on November 17, 1813.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Record types include: correspondence, photocopies, handwritten transcripts, publications, photographs, financial records and contracts. This is the only known extent collection of Bishop Otterbein' s papers in the Western Hemisphere. The collection contains autographs and his ministerial credentials.
Sistema de arreglo
This collection is arranged by series.
Condiciones de acceso y uso de los elementos
Condiciones de acceso
There are no restrictions regarding this collection.
Acceso físico
Acceso técnico
Condiciones
Detailed use restrictions relating to our collections can be requested from the office of the archivist at the General Commission on Archives and History. Photocopying is handled by the staff and may be limited in certain instances. Before using any material for publication from this collection a formal request for permission to publish is expected and required.
Idiomas del material
- inglés
Escritura(s) de los documentos
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Instrumentos de descripción
Elementos de adquisición y valoración
Historial de custodia
Origen del ingreso
1985-002 Evangelical United Brethren Historical Society Dayton, Ohio
1992-083 Evangelical United Brethren Historical Society Hough, Mary R. Dayton, Ohio
Valoración, selección y eliminación
Acumulaciones
Elementos de material relacionado
Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Unidades de descripción relacionadas.
Grace Reformed Church, Tanyeytown, Maryland, And History Of Grace Reformed Church, Keysville, Maryland.
William Roland Phinney Papers.
Augustus Waldo Drury Collection.
Descripciones relacionadas
Elemento notas
Nota general
When citing material from this collection please use the following format: Direct reference to the item or its file folder, Philip William Otterbein Papers, United Methodist Church Archives - GCAH, Madison, New Jersey. Do not make use of the item's call number as that is not a stable descriptor.
Notas especializadas
Identificador/es alternativo(os)
Área de control de la descripción
Reglas o convenciones
Fuentes
Nota del archivista
Added 3.25 ft of boxes to this collection on 4-23-2003. LB.
Nota del archivista
Prepared by Aaron Smith and Daisy Wiggins King, Student Assistant, Matthew Van Horne, Student Intern and Mark C. Shenise, Associate Archivist