RHC/RC. Regional Collections
Record Group Term
Identifier: RHC/RC
The Regional Collections include original manuscripts and records generated by private individuals, institutions, and organizations from throughout the eighteen northern Illinois counties. The collections span the period from 1800 to the present and focus on several major themes in the region's history: agriculture, politics, ethnic heritage, commerce and industry, the role of women, and urban expansion. To provide documentation in these areas of interest the Center actively collects the historical records of farmers and their organizations, businesses and retail stores, state and local politicians, churches, cemeteries, civic agencies, individuals, women's organizations, and labor unions. In addition, the Center holds vertical file manuscripts, county and local histories, atlases and plat books, city directories, maps, broadsides, posters, photographs, oral histories, genealogical journals, and core reference printed materials on the history of northern Illinois that complement the manuscript collections.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Big Woods Congregational Church
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-311
Scope and Contents
The Big Woods Congregational Church (BWCC) collection represents a modest portion of the historical records pertaining to the church’s establishment in 1835 and growth throughout the years. Types of records include church histories, membership and pastor lists, building renovations plans, land purchases, and Big Woods’ withdrawal from the United Church of Christ (UCC) and joining the National Association of Congregational Christ Churches (NACCC) in 1975. There are numerous church histories...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1836-2006; Other: Majority of material found in 1920-1996; Other: Date acquired: 05/17/2011
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Congregational Church of Batavia Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-082
Scope and Contents
Recording an important aspect of Batavia history, the records of the Congregational Church document the establishment and history of one of the oldest churches in Kane County. Church/Congregational Society minutes (1835-1966) comprise the major series of the collection detailing church business concerns such as acceptance of members, committee appointments, church repairs, and reports from the church treasurer and various church organizations. Trustee meeting minutes (1933-1990) supplement...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1835-2017; Other: Date acquired: 01/27/1981
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Ella Hume Taylor Collection (Geneseo)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-034
Scope and Contents
The Ella Hume Taylor Collection is made up of materials collected by Mrs. Taylor from the Henry County area.
The major portion of the collection is made up of letters, reminiscences, town and township histories obtained by Ella Hume Taylor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among these are autobiographical and biographical sketches of the ‘Old Settlers of Henry County’ Theodore Davenport, George Brandenburg, and others. Also included are programs and by-laws of the Old...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1881-1940
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
First Congregational Church Records (DeKalb)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-017
Scope and Contents
The records in this collection document the growth and development of the First Congregational Church of DeKalb from 1856-1991.
The first series, Administrative Records, includes historical information, constitutions and annual reports, church meeting minutes and correspondence, bulletins and the church newsletter. The nearly complete span of weekly church bulletins documents day-to-day activities and concerns.
Series two, Membership, contains church directories, membership lists, and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1856-2002; Other: Date acquired: 03/00/1973
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
First Congregational Church Records (Sterling)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-155
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the history of the First Congregational Church from its founding in 1857 through 1982. The records are organized into six series covering different facets of church operation. Series one, administrative records, comprises historical information, constitutions and by-laws, church record books containing meeting minutes (1857-1961), trustee meeting minutes (1949-1955), annual reports (1940-1981), resolutions and legal agreements, and correspondence (1949-1965). ...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1857-1982; Other: Date acquired: 08/19/1982
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Laura Cooper Collection (Byron)
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-044
Scope and Contents
Laura Cooper’s diaries, located in box one, date from 1892 to 1893, 1938 to 1942, 1944 to 1948, and 1954 to 1965. The diaries offer a chronicle of one woman’s day-to-day activities over a number of years including comments on family, deaths of relatives and town members, church activities, and other common situations such as meals and weather.
Box two of the collection contains reminiscences of Mrs. Cooper about Byron’s Congregational Church (1897-1924); weekly bulletins, programs,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1892-1965; Other: Date acquired: 11/06/1978
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Malta Congregational Church Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-218
Scope and Contents
The Malta Congregational Church records date from its organization in 1858 to 1991. The administrative series contains a complete run of Church Record books from November 3, 1858 to January 31, 1965 and from October 27, 1983 to January 31, 1990. These records books include meeting minutes as well as baptismal records, confirmation class lists, deaths records, dismissal information from the church, membership and officer lists, and memorial listings.
The financial records series...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-1991; Other: Date acquired: 05/04/1994
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Mayfield Congregational Church Records
Collection
Identifier: RHC-RC-185
Scope and Contents
Records from the Mayfield Congregational Church date from its organization in 1849 to the present, although the bulk of the material is dated after its affiliation with the Congregation-alists in 1906. The collection is divided into eight series: Historical and Administrative Records, Membership, Committees, Financial Records, Building Fund/Construction, Church Organiza-tions, Audio-visual, and United Church of Christ. Series I, Historical and Administrative Records, contains historical...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1849+; Other: Date acquired: 10/00/1987
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
Spring Creek United Church of Christ (Rockford)
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: RHC-RC-287
Scope and Contents
The collection contains both paper and electronic documents pertaining to the history of the Spring Creek Congregational Church since its founding by Reverend Richard J. Nielsen in 1960.
The collection includes annual meetings, reports, financial reports, and building development and construction. Numerous church committees are represented, some extensively, through meeting agendas and minutes, and miscellaneous correspondence. Those committees include: Cabinet, Christian Education,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1960+; Other: Date acquired: 11/28/2007
Found in:
Northern Illinois University
