Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church (Tiffin, Ohio) records

The collection of the Pleasant Ridge United Methodist Church consists of three record groups: proceedings, printed material, and photographs which document both the membership and the history of the church for the period from 1845 to 1988.

Comprising the group of proceedings are three record series: membership records, directories, and minutes.

The membership records consist of four volumes of record books which include documentation of the church's membership and pastors, baptisms and marriages. The first of these membership records is a photocopied portion of the register of baptisms from 1879 to 1886. The complete, original volume is held by the Green Spring Methodist Church on Broadway Street in Tiffin. The other three volumes span the period from 1906 to 1988 and include baptisms as well as listings of individual members and marriages. Researchers should also note that the first minute book delineated below contains names of the original subscribers to the church for the period from 1845 to 1877.

The Directories consist of two photocopied listings of the Green Spring Charge which included both the Pleasant Ridge congregation and the Green Spring congregation. This charge was under the authority of the Sandusky District, N.O. [North or Northwest Ohio] Conference of the Methodist Church for the period from about 1883 to 1887. These directories include a list of the individual members of Pleasant Ridge. The third item within this series consists of a mimeographed list of the trustees, stewards and committees for the Green Spring Charge from 1908 to 1913.

The final series within the group of proceedings contains four volumes of minute books. The first of these volumes contain the minutes of the trustees, the names of subscribers to the church membership, and minutes of the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery Association. This book documents the founding of the church. The next two volumes contain minutes of the church's Sunday School program for the period from 1859 to 1885. The fourth volume contains minutes of the committee responsible for the erection of a church building between 1888 and 1890. The remaining portion of the volume contains minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees for the period from 1893 to 1899.

Printed material consists of two pamphlets produced as a celebration of the church's lifespan. The first of these is a sesquicentennial history from 1824 to 1974 which provides a good overview of the church's founding and evolution. The second pamphlet was produced as a centennial history celebrating the period from 1889, when the congregation began construction of their present building, to 1989. This pamphlet provides much detail in regard to the church's architectural history.

The last group within this collection consists of four photographs which depict some of the church's early members and special interest groups. Also included is a memorial portraiture of Uriah and Susannah Egbert, the church's founders.