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By Edwin Schell

200 Years Ago
Bishop Asbury?s Journal, Sept. 4, 1805
?  Gov. Tiffin of Ohio, a doctor, ministered to Bishop Asbury?s very ill traveling companion.

100 Years Ago

Methodist Protestant, Sept. 6, 1905

?  Jackson Grove camp meeting had good attendance and 50 conversions, thanks to local trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
 

Christian Advocate, Sept. 14, 1905 

?  Methodist Union began a Sunday school at Petworth in Washington and G.W. Swartzell will give ground for a church.
?  The Aged Peoples Outing Association held a two-car trolley party at Glyndon for aged folk of Baltimore.
?  Hamline in Washington, D.C., welcomed two Korean men, taught them Enlish and took them into membership.

25 Years Ago

Circuit Rider, Sept. 5, 1980

?  Camp Hope on the Hagerstown District had 180 workers and volunteers from 13 United Methodist churches repairing houses for indigent and elderly folk.

?  Baltimore Goodwill Industries camp for 50 handicapped workers got an assist from Northwood-Appold UMC.

Connection, Sept. 13, 1995

?  A bequest of B.W. Wilson will benefit 24 United Methodist churches near his Carroll County residence.

?  The distinguished service award for Archives & History was given the Rev. Edwin Schell at St. Simons Island, Ga.

The Rev. Edwin Schell is the executive director of the United Methodist Historical Society.