1. Horace N. Herrick and William Warren Sweet, A History of the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Indianapolis: W.K. Stewart, 1917), pp. 2-3.

2. Richard Jensen, “The Lynds Revisited”, Indiana Magazine of History (December, 1979), p. 315.

3. Charles E. Harvey, “Robert S. Lynd, John D. Rockefeller, Jr, and Middletown”, speech given at the Northern Indiana Historical Society Annual Meeting, Muncie, Indiana, 15 September 1981.

4. Ibid.

5. Helen M. Lynd, “Middletown”, speech given at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, printed in Community Section Newsletter, Philip Olson (ed.), X(1) Fall (1980), p. 1. Interestingly enough, the correspondence between Robert M. Lynd and Galen M. Fisher, executive secretary of the Institute of Social and Religious Research, does not contain any specific reference to the treatment of religion as a point of contention. See Robert S. Lynd, letter to Galen M. Fisher (27 January 1927), and Fisher's reply (5 March 1927), The Rockefeller Foundation Archives, New York City.

6. Jensen, op. cit. Note 2, p. 316.

7. Ibid, p. 315.

8. Robert S. and Helen M. Lynd, Middletown in Transition (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1937; A Harvest Book, 1956), p. 296.

9. Ibid., p. 332.

10. Jensen, op. cit. Note 2, pp. 316-17.

11. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, J.P. Matyer (ed.), translated by George Lawrence (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1969), p. 292.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid., p. 294.

14. Ibid., pp. 196-301.

15. High Street Church History, unpublished history, High Street Church, Muncie, Indiana, n.d., p. 1.

16. Frank G. Talbot, “Presbyterian Pastor Travels by Covered Wagon to Form Church in `Munseytown' ”, Muncie Evening Press, 16 June 1979, p. 6; Belle Thomas, The First One Hundred Years (Muncie, IN: The Women's Auxiliary and the Flower Mission of the First Presbyterian Church, 1938), pp. 12-15.

17. Alexander M. Bracken, Jr, “Middletown as a Pioneer Community”, PhD Dissertation, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 1978, p. 52.

18. Frank G. Talbot, “Muncie Merchant's Wife Establishes Local Friends Meeting in 1876”, Muncie Evening Press, 12 May 1979, p. 6.

19. Churches of Delaware County 1976 (Muncie, IN: Christian Ministries of Delaware County, 1976), contains the founding dates of these churches. The churches are also listed in Charles Emerson, Muncie Directory 1889 (Indianapolis: Carlon and Hallenbeck, Printers and Binders, 1889).

20. “Friends Dedicate Their New Place of Worship Today”, Muncie Sunday Star, 2 February 1908, p. 10.

21. Frank D. Haimbaugh (ed.), History of Delaware County, Indiana, pp. 349-50; Frank G. Talbot, “Grace Episcopal Nears Century Mark in Muncie”, Muncie Evening Press, 30 June 1979, p. 6; Bruce A. Bohlander, “A Look at the Parish Family of Grace Church (Episcopal) and Its Impact on Muncie in the Last Half of the Nineteenth Century”, Seminar Paper, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, Autumn, 1979, p. 2.

22. US Government, Bureau of Census, Manufacturers' Census of 1880, Vol. 3, p. 225.

23. John D. Hewitt and Dwight W. Hoover, “Social Order in Middletown: 1845-1975”, Paper presented at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, 8 November 1980.

24. Thomas B. Helm, History of Delaware County, Indiana (Chicago: Kingman Brothers, 1881), p. 162.

25. High Street Church History, op. cit. Note 15, pp. 3-5; Herrick and Sweet, op. cit. Note 1, pp. 144-8; Bruce A. Bohlander, op. cit. Note 21, pp. 4-5; William R. Mitchell, History of the First Universalist Church, Unpublished manuscript history, First Universalist Church, Muncie, Indiana, 1974, pp. 1-2.

26. High Street Church History, op. cit. Note 15, p. 5; Churches of Delaware County, op. cit. Note 18, pp. 8, 79, 120, 126; Lorna Van Meter, “High Street Methodist Church, Muncie, Indiana and the Social Gospel, 1890-1910”, Seminar paper, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, Autumn, 1979, pp. 6-8.

27. Augustus Cleland Wilmore, History of the White River Conference of the United Brethren in Christ (Dayton, OH: United Brethren Publishing House, 1925), pp. 306-8.

28. Tocqueville, op. cit. Note 11, p. 293.

29. Hewitt and Hoover, op. cit. Note 23.

30. Carmel Jones, “Migration, Religion and Occupational Mobility of Southern Appalachians in Muncie, Indiana”, EdD dissertation, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, p. 267.

31. Ibid., pp. 210-30.

32. Ibid., p. 257.

33. Hewitt and Hoover, op. cit. Note 23.

Middletown: A Case Study of Religious Development,1827-1982

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