ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202
COLLECTION: OGL#1238
DATES: 1893-1968
SIZE: .25 linear feet
ACQUISITION: The records of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Walshville, ND were deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Donna Pettit on August 13, 1991 (Acc. #91- 1777).
ACCESS: Available for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.
The St. Luke's Mission was established by Bishop Walker and organized by Charles MacLean, a layman studying for Holy Orders, in September 1890. The first church was built and consecrated in July 1893. In 1935 a new church was built with money received from the Women's Auxiliary. This church was remodeled in 1958, and services being held there until at least 1968.
Some rectors who had the longest stays were Charles MacLean, 1893-1903, Albert E.H. Martyr, 1915-24, Robert Clarke, 1928-34, Eldrid Murdoch, 1958-62, and Jay D. Hanson, 1964-68. The church appears to have closed sometime in 1969, as all references to it in The Sheaf, a serial published by the Episcopal Church in North Dakota, end with the March-April 1969 issue.
Sources:
Wilkins, Robert P. and Wyona H. God Giveth the Increase: The History of the Episcopal Church in North Dakota. Fargo, North Dakota: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1959.
The Sheaf. Fargo: Episcopal Church in North Dakota
The records of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Walshville, ND date from 1893-1968 and contain a Church Register, 1893-1968, which lists communicants, baptisms, confirmations, burials, marriages, and families in the church. A Marriage Register, 1915-1942, is also included.
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