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Hammondsport (N.Y.) -- Religious life and customs.

 Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Benjamin Russell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2181
Scope and content Contains one volume of autobiographical material and diary entries and correspondence. Volume contains an autobiographical sketch of Russell's youth, dealing mainly with his earnest desire to become a minister despite poor health and poverty and his efforts to educated himself, and diary entries (1833-1842) concerning his theological studies, work as the Chautauqua County agent of the American Bible Society,lectures on temperance, preaching in Western New York both before and after his...
Dates: 1833-1891.

Presbyterian Church of Hammondsport records

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6109
Scope and content

Session meeting minutes (1831-1867) with numerous disciplinary cases; a register listing of baptisms (1832-1867) and members (1831-1889); annual statistical reports (1845); and financial reports of contributions to benevolent causes (1857,1867, 1868).

Dates: 1831-1880.

St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church records

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6076
Scope and content

Baptisms (1861-1897, 1900); marriages (1861-1865, 1867, 1870-1897, 1900; and additional miscellaneous certificates for period 1899-1929; deaths (1861-1870, 1880-1898); and confirmations (1863, 1883, 1888, 1897).

Dates: 1861-1900/