Title: Lebanon Baptist Church Records
Inclusive Dates: 1849-1949

Creator:

• Lebanon Baptist Church (Dodge County, Wis.)

Call Number: Oshkosh Micro 13; Micro 129

Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Housed at the Archives & Area Research Center, Polk Library, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Records of a congregation founded in 1849 as the German Baptist Church; including minute books, membership and financial records for the congregation, its Sunday School, Ladies Aid Society, and Youth Society; a church history, and miscellaneous other records, including genealogical information regarding the descendants of H. J. Mueller, pastor from 1883 to 1897.

Language: German

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0129

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The Lebanon Baptist Church, located on Dodge County Trunk CW, south of Lebanon, Wisconsin, was founded in 1849 by the Reverend W. E. Grimm. Known first as the German Baptist Church, the congregation included members from Ashippun, Watertown, Concord, and other nearby areas. The church building was dedicated in 1866, in the 1890's, a Ladies Aid Society was organized, and a Youth Society was established later.

Gradually however, membership dwindled; in 1929, just 45 members were enrolled. The church survived to celebrate its centennial in April 1949 but ceased to function shortly after that.

The records of the Lebanon Baptist Church consist of twelve bound volumes and one folder of unbound papers. Though not complete, they document the activities of the congregation itself, the Sunday School, the Ladies Aid Society, and the Youth Society. No record books of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, or deaths are present. Almost all of the records are in German.

Acquisition Information

Loaned for copying by Mr. and Mrs. Allen Krause, Watertown, Wisconsin, 1979. Accession Number: M79-259

Processing Information

Processed by Karen Baumann and N. Shen, June 29, 1979.

	Series: Congregation Records
Reel   1 Volume   1	Family membership register, 1849-1946[?] Note: The first page has information on the founding of the congregation.
	Minute books
Reel   1 Volume   2	1854-1894
Reel   1 Volume   3	1895-1946 Note: A typewritten history of the church, 1849-1929, is filed at the end of this volume.
	Financial record books
Reel   1 Volume   4	1881-1927
Reel   1 Volume   5	1927-1947
Reel   1 Folder   1	Unbound papers, 1909-1949 Scope and Content Note: Included are the bulletin from the 60th anniversary service, 1909, congratulatory letters received on the 80th and 90th anniversaries, the bulletin from the 100th anniversary service, genealogical information primarily on descendants of H. J. Mueller, pastor from 1883 to 1897, and other papers.
	Series: Sunday School Records	⇧
Reel   1 Volume   6	Financial record book, 1933-1950
Reel   1 Volume   7	Library book loan record book, 1890-1901
	Series: Ladies Aid Society	⇧
	Minute books
Reel   1 Volume   8	1893-1896
Reel   1 Volume   9	1897-1907
Reel   1 Volume   10	1907-1914
Reel   1 Volume   11	Financial and membership record book, 1935-1946
	Series: Youth Society	⇧
Reel   1 Volume   12	Financial and membership record book, 1893-1926