Once Upon a House
Once Upon a House

Sources

Past Made Present (William Fiske Brown, 1900)

Brown, William Fiske. Past Made Present: The First Fifty Years of the First Presbyterian Church and Congregation of Beloit, Wisconsin. An Illustrated History of Sixty Years in Beloit and Wisconsin. Chicago: printed by the Marsh & Grant Co., 1900. Digitized by Google Books.

What the corpus of Past Made Present (1900) holds: the First Presbyterian Church of Beloit's fifty years, 254 photographs, and where Thibault's cabin stood.

Transcribed page by page: 129,417 words. Each page keeps its printed page number, so every quotation on the site can be checked against it.

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Front matter: title, errata, dedication, In Memoriam A. D. Eddy, contents, illustrations — Past Made Present (1900)18 pages, to PDF p. 17 / book p. 203,386 For subscribers
The semi-centennial of 1899 and the Historical Discourse — Past Made Present (1900)53 pages, to PDF p. 6916,003 For subscribers
The Sunday school, societies, eldership, choir, buildings, the women's societies, letters — Past Made Present (1900)67 pages, to PDF p. 135 / book p. 14127,898 For subscribers
Part II: The Presbyterian Church in Wisconsin — Past Made Present (1900)38 pages, to PDF p. 172 / book p. 18015,981 For subscribers
Our war record; the Log of the Gypsy; an ocean voyage, 1861 — Past Made Present (1900)59 pages, to PDF p. 230 / book p. 23829,885 For subscribers
The Old White Church; the Sabbath school missionary; the Presbytery of Milwaukee — Past Made Present (1900)42 pages, to PDF p. 27118,597 For subscribers
Appendix: Puritan ancestry of Beloit pioneers and other notes; index — Past Made Present (1900)48 pages, to PDF p. 31917,667 For subscribers