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 [http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maggieoh/mohcoun1.html Pioneers] that had suffered hardships of the frontier life went to church which provided them with a stabilizing foundation. Settlers were fired with religious zeal as they moved into the Ohio area and they quickly established churches.
-From the late eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, Ohio’s religious community boomed. Ohio became home to the Shakers, Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, Campbellites, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and eventually included every major Christian faith. During the twentieth century, numerous non-Christian denominations were established in the state making Ohio a home to many different religious beliefs.<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country">"''Churches in the Buckeye Country"''; A History of Ohio's Religious Groups Published In Commemoration Of The State's Sesquicentennial By The Religious Participation Committee Of The Ohio Sesquicentennial Commission An Inter-Faith Group, 1953;  [http://www.digitalshoebox.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/steubenbks&CISOPTR=18697&REC=0&CISOBOX=amish&CISOSHOW=18769 Digital Book] </ref>
+From the late eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, Ohio’s religious community boomed. Ohio became home to the Shakers, Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, Campbellites, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and eventually included every major Christian faith. During the twentieth century, numerous non-Christian denominations were established in the state making Ohio a home to many different religious beliefs.<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country">"''Churches in the Buckeye Country"''; A History of Ohio's Religious Groups Published In Commemoration Of The State's Sesquicentennial By The Religious Participation Committee Of The Ohio Sesquicentennial Commission An Inter-Faith Group, 1953;  [http://www.digitalshoebox.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fsteubenbks&CISOPTR=18697&REC=0&CISOBOX Digital Book] </ref>
 Denominational histories for groups such as the Church of the Brethren, Evangelical, LDS (1830 to 1838), Lutheran, Mennonite, Methodist, Moravian, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic are listed in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under OHIO - CHURCH HISTORY and OHIO, [COUNTY], [TOWN] - CHURCH HISTORY.
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 ====Lutheran====
-*Most of the Lutheran's in early Ohio, spoke only German. They gravitated toward Germantown and Germantown's many townships. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
+*Most of the [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=602&nm=Lutheran-Church Lutheran's] in early Ohio, spoke only German so most of their early services were conducted in German. They gravitated toward Germantown and Germantown's many townships. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
 ====Mennonite====
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 ====A.M.E. Zion Church====
-*The A. M. E. Zion Church was a offshoot church organized by Bishop J.W. Hood in September of 1891. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
+*The A. M. E. Zion Church is an offshoot church organized by Bishop J.W. Hood in September of 1891. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
 ====Wesleyan Methodist====
 * [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2454  Wesleyan Methodist Church], the predecessor of the Wesleyan Church of America left the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1843.   Strong opposition to slavery was a primary reason for this break-away.  <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
 ====Moravian====
-*Christian Frederick Post and John Heckewelder had been sent by the [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=609 Moravians] to Ohio in 1764 . They made their first  attempt establish a mission near what is now Bolivar, on the Tuscarawas River. David Zeisberger preached to the Delaware Indians
+*Christian Frederick Post and John Heckewelder had been sent by the [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=609 Moravians] to Ohio in 1764 . They made their first  attempt establish a mission near what is now Bolivar, on the Tuscarawas River. David Zeisberger preached to the Delaware Indians.<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
 ====Church of the Nazarene====
+*1908 brought an organization of a central district of the church, comprised from  Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
 ====Church of the New Jerusalem====
+*The Church of the New Jerusalem was formally organized in 1811, and in 1818 the church was incorporated. Thomas Newport organized the Western Association of the New Jerusalem Church in 1818. Newport's farm held this congregation's first  annual meeting, hosting approximately 300 people. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
 ====Presbyterian====
+* In October of 1792, the members of Transylvania Presbytery came into Ohio to meet in the first Protestant church. Columbus, Cincinnati, Marietta and most of the other towns in Ohio had [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=620 Presbyterian churches] by the early 1820's. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
 ====United Presbyterian====
+*Several congregations were organized in the growing Ohio communities; Mahoning organized in 1798, Struthers in 1804,
+Liberty in 1805, First Cambridge in 1822, and Northfield in 1833. Devoted members historically came from Scotland and Northern Ireland. The 1900's brought members from Pennsylvania and Kentucky.<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
 ====Reformed====
+*June 16, 1866 in Cleveland The First Dutch Reformed Church in Ohio was established.<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
 ====Roman Catholic====
+*Frenchman set up the first Catholic white settlement in 1790 at Gallipolis near Marietta. Cincinnati hand another group of Irish origin in 1811. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
 ====Salvation Army====
+* The Salvation Army, which came from England,  was in organized in Cleveland, Ohio by 1872. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
 ====Spiritualist====
+*May 19, 1897 was that date that The  Ohio State Spiritualist Association was organized and incorporated. This took place in Toledo.
 ====The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints====
 *During the [http://www.parleyppratt.org/?s=Ziba+Peterson autumn of 1830], four [http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/history/1831_1844/eom.htm LDS] missionaries introduced the restored gospel to the communities of northeastern Ohio as they made their way to preach to the Indians west of Missouri. The Elders were [http://www.parleyppratt.org/ Parley P. Pratt], Ziba Peterson, [http://www.mormonwiki.com/Oliver_Cowdery Oliver Cowdery] and [http://www.mormonwiki.com/Peter_Whitmer_Home Peter Whitmer], they called upon Sidney Rigdon, pastor of a congregation of the Disciples of Christ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbellites (Campbelliltes)] at Kirtland, Ohio. [http://www.mormonwiki.com/Sidney_Rigdon Sidney Rigdon], along with a part of his congregation  became converted and thus started the beginning of the [http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/0,15478,3900-1,00.html#FlashPluginDetected LDS Church's episode in Ohio's early history].<ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
 ====Universalist====
-Volunteer of America> <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
+*Belpre and Marietta organized church congregations at the same time in 1818. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
+====Volunteers of America====
+* Cleveland was the firs home to Volunteers of America in May of 1896. <ref name="Churches in the Buckeye Country"/>
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