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The Smith Library maintains an archive of the Virginia
Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren/United Brethren Church.
These materials are located on the basement level of
the Library. Typically, the EUB/UB
collection includes Virginia conference-wide materials, but relatively little
relating to EUB churches and their ministers. These materials are of particular interest to historians of
the university due to the fact that much of the endowment for the relocation of
Shenandoah from Dayton to Winchester was provided through the Evangelical
United Brethren Church.
Evangelical United Brethren historical
materials appear in the library's catalog under its own formal title, as well
as under various antecedent denominations. A brief explanation is provided here
(via the Library of Congress) of the interrelationships between the various
churches:
"In 1939 the Methodist Episcopal Church,
the Methodist Episcopal Church (South), and the Methodist Protestant Church
united to form the Methodist Church (U.S.); in 1946 the Church of the United
Brethren in Christ (New constitution) and the Evangelical Church united to form
the Evangelical United Brethren Church; in 1968 the Methodist Church (U.S.) and
the Evangelical United Brethren Church united to form the United Methodist
Church (U.S.)."
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