Oberholtzer Mennonite Church (Mahoning County, Ohio, USA)
Oberholtzer Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), built in Beaver Township, Mahoning County, OH, in 1825. The land was donated by Jacob Oberholtzer, a minister of the congregation. The building committee for this log church, 30 x 36 ft., was George Baughman and Jonathan Oberholtzer. In 1871 this log church was replaced by a brick church, 40 x 50 ft., begun in 1869 located a short distance to the southwest. The building committee for this brick church was Jacob Yoder, Daniel Ziegler, and Melchior Mellinger. The erection of this new church precipitated an Old Order (Wisler) schism in the Columbiana-Mahoning congregation in 1872, which followed Bishop Jacob Wisler from the main body in Indiana. In 1898 the building was enlarged. This church was known as Oberholtzer's until 1898, when it was called the Middle Church. About 1900 Allen Rickert, a minister, suggested, "Let's call it Midway." David Lehman was the first to use the name in making announcements from the pulpit. The name Midway Mennonite Church continues to the present. In August 1957 a marker of Georgia granite was placed on the site of the original log church.
| Author(s) | Wilmer D Swope |
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| Date Published | 1959 |
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Swope, Wilmer D. "Oberholtzer Mennonite Church (Mahoning County, Ohio, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 18 Apr 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Oberholtzer_Mennonite_Church_(Mahoning_County,_Ohio,_USA)&oldid=118584.
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Swope, Wilmer D. (1959). Oberholtzer Mennonite Church (Mahoning County, Ohio, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 18 April 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Oberholtzer_Mennonite_Church_(Mahoning_County,_Ohio,_USA)&oldid=118584.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 13-14. All rights reserved.
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