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[Historic Marker Application: Industry Methodist Church]

Description: Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Industry Methodist Church, in Industry, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, photographs, newspaper clippings, and a publication titled "One Hundred Years of Methodism at Industry, Texas."
Date: 1967
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Partner: Texas Historical Commission

[Diary of Henry Matthews - 1833-1840]

Description: Henry Matthews (1799-18?) was a Methodist circuit rider, schoolteacher, and practicing physician from Ohio, who made his way from Ohio, through the Illinois Territory, to Texas. Primarily a circuit-riding preacher and schoolteacher in his early days in Ohio, Matthews practiced medicine more formally in the 1830s and 1840s in San Felipe, Texas, where Matthews and his wife Miranda eventually settled. The latter two-thirds are a private diary, but many of the entries are made over printed finance … more
Date: 1833-05-25/1840-10-02
Creator: Matthews, Henry
Partner: Southwestern University
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