https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Wayne_County_(Ohio,_USA)&feed=atom&action=historyWayne County (Ohio, USA) - Revision history2024-03-28T21:32:51ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.1https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Wayne_County_(Ohio,_USA)&diff=174735&oldid=prevAlfRedekopp: "Indian raids" replaces with "raids by Indigenous people"2023-01-26T19:42:10Z<p>"Indian raids" replaces with "raids by Indigenous people"</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The earliest trail from east to west led from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, south of Wooster to Sandusky, Ohio. This may account for the early settlement of the area east of Wooster in Green Township and in Chester Township west-northwest. Although a few [[Amish Mennonites|Amish]] ventured into [[Holmes County (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south as early as 1809 and Mennonites settled farther east in the state about the same time, neither Amish nor Mennonites attempted settlement in Wayne until the end of the War of 1812-14 had made the region relatively free from the danger of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Indian </del>raids. Amish from Somerset and [[Mifflin County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Mifflin]] counties, Pennsylvania, arrived first and founded, in the townships lying east and northeast of Wooster, what later developed into the [[Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Oak Grove]] and Pleasant Hill Amish Mennonite congregation. Swiss Mennonites from the Bernese Jura founded Sonnenberg in 1819 and Chippeway (now [[Crown Hill Mennonite Church (Rittman, Ohio, USA)|Crown Hill]]) in 1825. Mennonites from [[Lancaster County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster County]], Pennsylvania, founded [[Martins Mennonite Church (MC) (Wayne County, Ohio)|Martins Mennonite Church]] southeast of [[Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Orrville]] in 1824. Another group of Mennonites from [[Bucks County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Bucks County]], Pennsylvania, settled in Chester Township during the late 1820s and early 1830s. They were akin to some of the Mennonites who founded the Guilford congregation in Medina County.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The earliest trail from east to west led from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, south of Wooster to Sandusky, Ohio. This may account for the early settlement of the area east of Wooster in Green Township and in Chester Township west-northwest. Although a few [[Amish Mennonites|Amish]] ventured into [[Holmes County (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south as early as 1809 and Mennonites settled farther east in the state about the same time, neither Amish nor Mennonites attempted settlement in Wayne until the end of the War of 1812-14 had made the region relatively free from the danger of raids <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">by Indigenous people</ins>. Amish from Somerset and [[Mifflin County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Mifflin]] counties, Pennsylvania, arrived first and founded, in the townships lying east and northeast of Wooster, what later developed into the [[Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Oak Grove]] and Pleasant Hill Amish Mennonite congregation. Swiss Mennonites from the Bernese Jura founded Sonnenberg in 1819 and Chippeway (now [[Crown Hill Mennonite Church (Rittman, Ohio, USA)|Crown Hill]]) in 1825. Mennonites from [[Lancaster County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster County]], Pennsylvania, founded [[Martins Mennonite Church (MC) (Wayne County, Ohio)|Martins Mennonite Church]] southeast of [[Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Orrville]] in 1824. Another group of Mennonites from [[Bucks County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Bucks County]], Pennsylvania, settled in Chester Township during the late 1820s and early 1830s. They were akin to some of the Mennonites who founded the Guilford congregation in Medina County.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several Wayne County congregations have become extinct or the members have moved away. The original Amish settlement in Green and Milton townships gradually became [[Amish Mennonites|Amish Mennonite]] during the second half of the 19th century and are known as the Oak Grove and Pleasant Hill congregations. The small group who withdrew before the middle of the century to maintain an [[Old Order Amish|Old Order Amish]] congregation disappeared soon after the death of their bishop, Hannes Yoder. By the 1950s the Old Order Amish in the county had within recent decades been moving into the southeastern townships from the expanding congregations in [[Holmes-Wayne-Tuscarawas Counties Old Order Amish Settlement (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south. In the late 1950s they numbered 11 districts with 823 members. The Rich and Krabill families who left the Oak Grove congregation in 1869 and who later founded the Sterling, Ohio, Mennonite Church ([[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite]] [GCM]) united with the [[Wadsworth First Mennonite Church (Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, USA)|Wadsworth Mennonite Church]] (GCM) about 1920. A small [[Brethren in Christ Church |Brethren in Christ]] congregation, proselyted from the Amish and Mennonites in the county about the middle of the century, and though served by the highly respected elder Elias Schrock, became extinct before the end of the century. The [[Holdeman, John (1832-1900)|John Holdeman]] Church, later called [[Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (CGC)|Church of God in Christ, Mennonite]], was founded in Chester Township in 1859 and erected a meetinghouse there, but moved west about 1883. The city congregations in Orrville (founded 1909) and Wooster (founded 1942) are composed of families with varying background. The [[Conservative Mennonite Conference|Conservative Mennonite]] congregations at Maysville and [[East Union Mennonite Church (Orrville, Ohio, USA)|East Union]] originated out of the Old Order Amish in the 1950s.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several Wayne County congregations have become extinct or the members have moved away. The original Amish settlement in Green and Milton townships gradually became [[Amish Mennonites|Amish Mennonite]] during the second half of the 19th century and are known as the Oak Grove and Pleasant Hill congregations. The small group who withdrew before the middle of the century to maintain an [[Old Order Amish|Old Order Amish]] congregation disappeared soon after the death of their bishop, Hannes Yoder. By the 1950s the Old Order Amish in the county had within recent decades been moving into the southeastern townships from the expanding congregations in [[Holmes-Wayne-Tuscarawas Counties Old Order Amish Settlement (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south. In the late 1950s they numbered 11 districts with 823 members. The Rich and Krabill families who left the Oak Grove congregation in 1869 and who later founded the Sterling, Ohio, Mennonite Church ([[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite]] [GCM]) united with the [[Wadsworth First Mennonite Church (Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, USA)|Wadsworth Mennonite Church]] (GCM) about 1920. A small [[Brethren in Christ Church |Brethren in Christ]] congregation, proselyted from the Amish and Mennonites in the county about the middle of the century, and though served by the highly respected elder Elias Schrock, became extinct before the end of the century. The [[Holdeman, John (1832-1900)|John Holdeman]] Church, later called [[Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (CGC)|Church of God in Christ, Mennonite]], was founded in Chester Township in 1859 and erected a meetinghouse there, but moved west about 1883. The city congregations in Orrville (founded 1909) and Wooster (founded 1942) are composed of families with varying background. The [[Conservative Mennonite Conference|Conservative Mennonite]] congregations at Maysville and [[East Union Mennonite Church (Orrville, Ohio, USA)|East Union]] originated out of the Old Order Amish in the 1950s.</div></td></tr>
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</table>AlfRedekopphttps://gameo.org/index.php?title=Wayne_County_(Ohio,_USA)&diff=170504&oldid=prevSamSteiner at 19:16, 5 March 20212021-03-05T19:16:27Z<p></p>
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</table>SamSteinerhttps://gameo.org/index.php?title=Wayne_County_(Ohio,_USA)&diff=135255&oldid=prevSusanHuebert at 16:48, 25 July 20162016-07-25T16:48:15Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several Wayne County congregations have become extinct or the members have moved away. The original Amish settlement in Green and Milton townships gradually became [[Amish Mennonites|Amish Mennonite]] during the second half of the 19th century and are known as the Oak Grove and Pleasant Hill congregations. The small group who withdrew before the middle of the century to maintain an [[Old Order Amish|Old Order Amish]] congregation disappeared soon after the death of their bishop, Hannes Yoder. By the 1950s the Old Order Amish in the county had within recent decades been moving into the southeastern townships from the expanding congregations in [[Holmes-Wayne-Tuscarawas Counties Old Order Amish Settlement (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south. In the late 1950s they numbered 11 districts with 823 members. The Rich and Krabill families who left the Oak Grove congregation in 1869 and who later founded the Sterling, Ohio, Mennonite Church ([[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite]] [GCM]) united with the [[Wadsworth First Mennonite Church (Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, USA)|Wadsworth Mennonite Church]] (GCM) about 1920. A small [[Brethren in Christ Church |Brethren in Christ]] congregation, proselyted from the Amish and Mennonites in the county about the middle of the century, and though served by the highly respected elder Elias Schrock, became extinct before the end of the century. The [[Holdeman, John (1832-1900)|John Holdeman]] Church, later called [[Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (CGC)|Church of God in Christ, Mennonite]], was founded in Chester Township in 1859 and erected a meetinghouse there, but moved west about 1883. The city congregations in Orrville (founded 1909) and Wooster (founded 1942) are composed of families with varying background. The [[Conservative Mennonite Conference|Conservative Mennonite]] congregations at Maysville and [[East Union Mennonite Church (Orrville, Ohio, USA)|East Union]] originated out of the Old Order Amish in the 1950s.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several Wayne County congregations have become extinct or the members have moved away. The original Amish settlement in Green and Milton townships gradually became [[Amish Mennonites|Amish Mennonite]] during the second half of the 19th century and are known as the Oak Grove and Pleasant Hill congregations. The small group who withdrew before the middle of the century to maintain an [[Old Order Amish|Old Order Amish]] congregation disappeared soon after the death of their bishop, Hannes Yoder. By the 1950s the Old Order Amish in the county had within recent decades been moving into the southeastern townships from the expanding congregations in [[Holmes-Wayne-Tuscarawas Counties Old Order Amish Settlement (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south. In the late 1950s they numbered 11 districts with 823 members. The Rich and Krabill families who left the Oak Grove congregation in 1869 and who later founded the Sterling, Ohio, Mennonite Church ([[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite]] [GCM]) united with the [[Wadsworth First Mennonite Church (Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, USA)|Wadsworth Mennonite Church]] (GCM) about 1920. A small [[Brethren in Christ Church |Brethren in Christ]] congregation, proselyted from the Amish and Mennonites in the county about the middle of the century, and though served by the highly respected elder Elias Schrock, became extinct before the end of the century. The [[Holdeman, John (1832-1900)|John Holdeman]] Church, later called [[Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (CGC)|Church of God in Christ, Mennonite]], was founded in Chester Township in 1859 and erected a meetinghouse there, but moved west about 1883. The city congregations in Orrville (founded 1909) and Wooster (founded 1942) are composed of families with varying background. The [[Conservative Mennonite Conference|Conservative Mennonite]] congregations at Maysville and [[East Union Mennonite Church (Orrville, Ohio, USA)|East Union]] originated out of the Old Order Amish in the 1950s.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>All but one of the original Mennonite congregations (Martin's) became [[Old Order Mennonites|Old Order Mennonite]] (OOM) during the Wisler controversy in Elkhart County, [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], about 1871-72. Some of these were nearing extinction by the late 1950s. A few Milton Township Swiss Mennonites helped to found the [[Apostolic Christian Church of America|Apostolic Christian Church]] in that township about 1855. The Sonnenberg Swiss Mennonite congregation had suffered considerable loss: first, in 1886 to the Salem congregation (GCM); in 1893-94 several members to the "Russelites," i.e., Jehovah's Witnesses; in 1917-19 to the Kidron Tabernacle, which during the 1950s lost most of its young people to the Missionary Church in [[Dalton (Ohio, USA)|Dalton]]; in 1935 to the [[Kidron Mennonite Church (Kidron, Ohio, USA)|Kidron]] congregation ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]] [MC]); and in the late 1950s 40 members to a new independent Bethel congregation near Apple Creek, formerly meeting in the Frog Pond <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">school-house</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>All but one of the original Mennonite congregations (Martin's) became [[Old Order Mennonites|Old Order Mennonite]] (OOM) during the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Wisler<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, Jacob (1808-1889)|Wisler]] </ins>controversy in Elkhart County, [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], about 1871-72. Some of these were nearing extinction by the late 1950s. A few Milton Township Swiss Mennonites helped to found the [[Apostolic Christian Church of America|Apostolic Christian Church]] in that township about 1855. The Sonnenberg Swiss Mennonite congregation had suffered considerable loss: first, in 1886 to the Salem congregation (GCM); in 1893-94 several members to the "Russelites," i.e., Jehovah's Witnesses; in 1917-19 to the Kidron Tabernacle, which during the 1950s lost most of its young people to the Missionary Church in [[Dalton (Ohio, USA)|Dalton]]; in 1935 to the [[Kidron Mennonite Church (Kidron, Ohio, USA)|Kidron]] congregation ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]] [MC]); and in the late 1950s 40 members to a new independent Bethel congregation near Apple Creek, formerly meeting in the Frog Pond <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">schoolhouse</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'']] </del>The earliest trail from east to west led from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, south of Wooster to Sandusky, Ohio. This may account for the early settlement of the area east of Wooster in Green Township and in Chester Township west-northwest. Although a few [[Amish|Amish]] ventured into [[Holmes County (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south as early as 1809 and Mennonites settled farther east in the state about the same time, neither Amish nor Mennonites attempted settlement in Wayne until the end of the War of 1812-14 had made the region relatively free from the danger of Indian raids. Amish from Somerset and [[Mifflin County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Mifflin]] counties, Pennsylvania, arrived first and founded, in the townships lying east and northeast of Wooster, what later developed into the [[Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Oak Grove]] and Pleasant Hill Amish Mennonite congregation. Swiss Mennonites from the Bernese Jura founded Sonnenberg in 1819 and Chippeway (now [[Crown Hill Mennonite Church (Rittman, Ohio, USA)|Crown Hill]]) in 1825. Mennonites from [[Lancaster County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster County]], Pennsylvania, founded [[Martins Mennonite Church (MC) (Wayne County, Ohio)|Martins Mennonite Church]] southeast of [[Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Orrville]] in 1824. Another group of Mennonites from [[Bucks County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Bucks County]], Pennsylvania, settled in Chester Township during the late 1820s and early 1830s. They were akin to some of the Mennonites who founded the Guilford congregation in Medina County.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The earliest trail from east to west led from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, south of Wooster to Sandusky, Ohio. This may account for the early settlement of the area east of Wooster in Green Township and in Chester Township west-northwest. Although a few [[Amish <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Mennonites</ins>|Amish]] ventured into [[Holmes County (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south as early as 1809 and Mennonites settled farther east in the state about the same time, neither Amish nor Mennonites attempted settlement in Wayne until the end of the War of 1812-14 had made the region relatively free from the danger of Indian raids. Amish from Somerset and [[Mifflin County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Mifflin]] counties, Pennsylvania, arrived first and founded, in the townships lying east and northeast of Wooster, what later developed into the [[Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Oak Grove]] and Pleasant Hill Amish Mennonite congregation. Swiss Mennonites from the Bernese Jura founded Sonnenberg in 1819 and Chippeway (now [[Crown Hill Mennonite Church (Rittman, Ohio, USA)|Crown Hill]]) in 1825. Mennonites from [[Lancaster County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster County]], Pennsylvania, founded [[Martins Mennonite Church (MC) (Wayne County, Ohio)|Martins Mennonite Church]] southeast of [[Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Orrville]] in 1824. Another group of Mennonites from [[Bucks County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Bucks County]], Pennsylvania, settled in Chester Township during the late 1820s and early 1830s. They were akin to some of the Mennonites who founded the Guilford congregation in Medina County.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several Wayne County congregations have become extinct or the members have moved away. The original <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</del>Amish<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">|Amish]] </del>settlement in Green and Milton townships gradually became [[Amish Mennonites|Amish Mennonite]] during the second half of the 19th century and are known as the Oak Grove and Pleasant Hill congregations. The small group who withdrew before the middle of the century to maintain an [[Old Order Amish|Old Order Amish]] congregation disappeared soon after the death of their bishop, Hannes Yoder. By the 1950s the Old Order Amish in the county had within recent decades been moving into the southeastern townships from the expanding congregations in [[Holmes-Wayne-Tuscarawas Counties Old Order Amish Settlement (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south. In the late 1950s they numbered 11 districts with 823 members. The Rich and Krabill families who left the Oak Grove congregation in 1869 and who later founded the Sterling, Ohio, Mennonite Church ([[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite]] [GCM]) united with the [[Wadsworth First Mennonite Church (Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, USA)|Wadsworth Mennonite Church]] (GCM) about 1920. A small [[Brethren in Christ Church |Brethren in Christ]] congregation, proselyted from the Amish and Mennonites in the county about the middle of the century, and though served by the highly respected elder Elias Schrock, became extinct before the end of the century. The [[Holdeman, John (1832-1900)|John Holdeman]] Church, later called [[Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (CGC)|Church of God in Christ, Mennonite]], was founded in Chester Township in 1859 and erected a meetinghouse there, but moved west about 1883. The city congregations in Orrville (founded 1909) and Wooster (founded 1942) are composed of families with varying background. The [[Conservative Mennonite Conference|Conservative Mennonite]] congregations at Maysville and [[East Union Mennonite Church (Orrville, Ohio, USA)|East Union]] originated out of the Old Order Amish in the 1950s.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Several Wayne County congregations have become extinct or the members have moved away. The original Amish settlement in Green and Milton townships gradually became [[Amish Mennonites|Amish Mennonite]] during the second half of the 19th century and are known as the Oak Grove and Pleasant Hill congregations. The small group who withdrew before the middle of the century to maintain an [[Old Order Amish|Old Order Amish]] congregation disappeared soon after the death of their bishop, Hannes Yoder. By the 1950s the Old Order Amish in the county had within recent decades been moving into the southeastern townships from the expanding congregations in [[Holmes-Wayne-Tuscarawas Counties Old Order Amish Settlement (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south. In the late 1950s they numbered 11 districts with 823 members. The Rich and Krabill families who left the Oak Grove congregation in 1869 and who later founded the Sterling, Ohio, Mennonite Church ([[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite]] [GCM]) united with the [[Wadsworth First Mennonite Church (Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, USA)|Wadsworth Mennonite Church]] (GCM) about 1920. A small [[Brethren in Christ Church |Brethren in Christ]] congregation, proselyted from the Amish and Mennonites in the county about the middle of the century, and though served by the highly respected elder Elias Schrock, became extinct before the end of the century. The [[Holdeman, John (1832-1900)|John Holdeman]] Church, later called [[Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (CGC)|Church of God in Christ, Mennonite]], was founded in Chester Township in 1859 and erected a meetinghouse there, but moved west about 1883. The city congregations in Orrville (founded 1909) and Wooster (founded 1942) are composed of families with varying background. The [[Conservative Mennonite Conference|Conservative Mennonite]] congregations at Maysville and [[East Union Mennonite Church (Orrville, Ohio, USA)|East Union]] originated out of the Old Order Amish in the 1950s.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>All but one of the original Mennonite congregations (Martin's) became [[Old Order Mennonites|Old Order Mennonite]] (OOM) during the Wisler controversy in Elkhart County, [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], about 1871-72. Some of these were nearing extinction by the late 1950s. A few Milton Township Swiss Mennonites helped to found the [[Apostolic Christian Church of America|Apostolic Christian Church]] in that township about 1855. The Sonnenberg Swiss Mennonite congregation had suffered considerable loss: first, in 1886 to the Salem congregation (GCM); in 1893-94 several members to the "Russelites," i.e., Jehovah's Witnesses; in 1917-19 to the Kidron Tabernacle, which during the 1950s lost most of its young people to the Missionary Church in [[Dalton (Ohio, USA)|Dalton]]; in 1935 to the [[Kidron Mennonite Church (Kidron, Ohio, USA)|Kidron]] congregation ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]] [MC]); and in the late 1950s 40 members to a new independent Bethel congregation near Apple Creek, formerly meeting in the Frog Pond school-house.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>All but one of the original Mennonite congregations (Martin's) became [[Old Order Mennonites|Old Order Mennonite]] (OOM) during the Wisler controversy in Elkhart County, [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], about 1871-72. Some of these were nearing extinction by the late 1950s. A few Milton Township Swiss Mennonites helped to found the [[Apostolic Christian Church of America|Apostolic Christian Church]] in that township about 1855. The Sonnenberg Swiss Mennonite congregation had suffered considerable loss: first, in 1886 to the Salem congregation (GCM); in 1893-94 several members to the "Russelites," i.e., Jehovah's Witnesses; in 1917-19 to the Kidron Tabernacle, which during the 1950s lost most of its young people to the Missionary Church in [[Dalton (Ohio, USA)|Dalton]]; in 1935 to the [[Kidron Mennonite Church (Kidron, Ohio, USA)|Kidron]] congregation ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]] [MC]); and in the late 1950s 40 members to a new independent Bethel congregation near Apple Creek, formerly meeting in the Frog Pond school-house.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wayne County, [[Ohio (State)|Ohio]], established in 1796, was the third county formed from the original Northwest Territory and originally included parts of Ohio, [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], [[Illinois (USA)|Illinois]], [[Wisconsin (USA)|Wisconsin]], and all of [[Michigan (State)|Michigan]]. It now contains an area of 540 square miles, lying 30 miles south of [[Cleveland (Ohio, USA)|Cleveland]] and 50 west of the [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] boundary. The soil, a deep clayey loam, is well adapted for growing wheat. The surface is mostly rolling, and formerly was heavily forested.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wayne County, [[Ohio (State)|Ohio]], established in 1796, was the third county formed from the original Northwest Territory and originally included parts of Ohio, [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], [[Illinois (USA)|Illinois]], [[Wisconsin (USA)|Wisconsin]], and all of [[Michigan (State)|Michigan]]. It now contains an area of 540 square miles, lying 30 miles south of [[Cleveland (Ohio, USA)|Cleveland]] and 50 west of the [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] boundary. The soil, a deep clayey loam, is well adapted for growing wheat. The surface is mostly rolling, and formerly was heavily forested.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'']] The earliest trail from east to west led from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, south of Wooster to Sandusky, Ohio. This may account for the early settlement of the area east of Wooster in Green Township and in Chester Township west-northwest. Although a few [[Amish|Amish]] ventured into [[Holmes County (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south as early as 1809 and Mennonites settled farther east in the state about the same time, neither Amish nor Mennonites attempted settlement in Wayne until the end of the War of 1812-14 had made the region relatively free from the danger of Indian raids. Amish from Somerset and [[Mifflin County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Mifflin]] counties, Pennsylvania, arrived first and founded, in the townships lying east and northeast of Wooster, what later developed into the [[Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Oak Grove]] and Pleasant Hill Amish Mennonite congregation. Swiss Mennonites from the Bernese Jura founded Sonnenberg in 1819 and Chippeway (now [[Crown Hill Mennonite Church (Rittman, Ohio, USA)|Crown Hill]]) in 1825. Mennonites from [[Lancaster County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster County]], Pennsylvania, founded [[Martins Mennonite Church (MC) (Wayne County, Ohio)|Martins Mennonite Church]] southeast of [[Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Orrville]] in 1824. Another group of Mennonites from [[Bucks County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Bucks County]], Pennsylvania, settled in Chester Township during the late 1820s and early 1830s. They were akin to some of the Mennonites who founded the Guilford congregation in Medina County.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'']] The earliest trail from east to west led from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, south of Wooster to Sandusky, Ohio. This may account for the early settlement of the area east of Wooster in Green Township and in Chester Township west-northwest. Although a few [[Amish|Amish]] ventured into [[Holmes County (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south as early as 1809 and Mennonites settled farther east in the state about the same time, neither Amish nor Mennonites attempted settlement in Wayne until the end of the War of 1812-14 had made the region relatively free from the danger of Indian raids. Amish from Somerset and [[Mifflin County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Mifflin]] counties, Pennsylvania, arrived first and founded, in the townships lying east and northeast of Wooster, what later developed into the [[Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Oak Grove]] and Pleasant Hill Amish Mennonite congregation. Swiss Mennonites from the Bernese Jura founded Sonnenberg in 1819 and Chippeway (now [[Crown Hill Mennonite Church (Rittman, Ohio, USA)|Crown Hill]]) in 1825. Mennonites from [[Lancaster County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster County]], Pennsylvania, founded [[Martins Mennonite Church (MC) (Wayne County, Ohio)|Martins Mennonite Church]] southeast of [[Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Orrville]] in 1824. Another group of Mennonites from [[Bucks County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Bucks County]], Pennsylvania, settled in Chester Township during the late 1820s and early 1830s. They were akin to some of the Mennonites who founded the Guilford congregation in Medina County.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>Wayne County, [[Ohio (State)|Ohio]], established in 1796, was the third county formed from the original Northwest Territory and originally included parts of Ohio, [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], [[Illinois (USA)|Illinois]], [[Wisconsin (USA)|Wisconsin]], and all of [[Michigan (State)|Michigan]]. It now contains an area of 540 square miles, lying 30 miles south of [[Cleveland (Ohio, USA)|Cleveland]] and 50 west of the [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] boundary. The soil, a deep clayey loam, is well adapted for growing wheat. The surface is mostly rolling, and formerly was heavily forested.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wayne County, [[Ohio (State)|Ohio]], established in 1796, was the third county formed from the original Northwest Territory and originally included parts of Ohio, [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], [[Illinois (USA)|Illinois]], [[Wisconsin (USA)|Wisconsin]], and all of [[Michigan (State)|Michigan]]. It now contains an area of 540 square miles, lying 30 miles south of [[Cleveland (Ohio, USA)|Cleveland]] and 50 west of the [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] boundary. The soil, a deep clayey loam, is well adapted for growing wheat. The surface is mostly rolling, and formerly was heavily forested.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:ME4_901.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Wayne County, Ohio </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:ME4_901.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Wayne County, Ohio </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The total membership of all branches in the county in 1957 was 3,393, distributed as follows: Mennonite Church (MC), 12 congregations with 2,134 members; Old Order Amish, 14 with 1,061; Old Order Mennonites, 4 with 208; General Conference Mennonite, 1 with 204; Reformed Mennonite, 1 with 24.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The total membership of all branches in the county in 1957 was 3,393, distributed as follows: Mennonite Church (MC), 12 congregations with 2,134 members; Old Order Amish, 14 with 1,061; Old Order Mennonites, 4 with 208; General Conference Mennonite, 1 with 204; Reformed Mennonite, 1 with 24.</div></td></tr>
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<p><b>New page</b></p><div> Wayne County, [[Ohio (State)|Ohio]], established in 1796, was the third county formed from the original Northwest Territory and originally included parts of Ohio, [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], [[Illinois (USA)|Illinois]], [[Wisconsin (USA)|Wisconsin]], and all of [[Michigan (State)|Michigan]]. It now contains an area of 540 square miles, lying 30 miles south of [[Cleveland (Ohio, USA)|Cleveland]] and 50 west of the [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] boundary. The soil, a deep clayey loam, is well adapted for growing wheat. The surface is mostly rolling, and formerly was heavily forested.<br />
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'']] The earliest trail from east to west led from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, south of Wooster to Sandusky, Ohio. This may account for the early settlement of the area east of Wooster in Green Township and in Chester Township west-northwest. Although a few [[Amish|Amish]] ventured into [[Holmes County (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south as early as 1809 and Mennonites settled farther east in the state about the same time, neither Amish nor Mennonites attempted settlement in Wayne until the end of the War of 1812-14 had made the region relatively free from the danger of Indian raids. Amish from Somerset and [[Mifflin County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Mifflin]] counties, Pennsylvania, arrived first and founded, in the townships lying east and northeast of Wooster, what later developed into the [[Oak Grove Mennonite Church (Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Oak Grove]] and Pleasant Hill Amish Mennonite congregation. Swiss Mennonites from the Bernese Jura founded Sonnenberg in 1819 and Chippeway (now [[Crown Hill Mennonite Church (Rittman, Ohio, USA)|Crown Hill]]) in 1825. Mennonites from [[Lancaster County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Lancaster County]], Pennsylvania, founded [[Martins Mennonite Church (MC) (Wayne County, Ohio)|Martins Mennonite Church]] southeast of [[Orrville (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Orrville]] in 1824. Another group of Mennonites from [[Bucks County (Pennsylvania, USA)|Bucks County]], Pennsylvania, settled in Chester Township during the late 1820s and early 1830s. They were akin to some of the Mennonites who founded the Guilford congregation in Medina County.<br />
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Several Wayne County congregations have become extinct or the members have moved away. The original [[Amish|Amish]] settlement in Green and Milton townships gradually became [[Amish Mennonites|Amish Mennonite]] during the second half of the 19th century and are known as the Oak Grove and Pleasant Hill congregations. The small group who withdrew before the middle of the century to maintain an [[Old Order Amish|Old Order Amish]] congregation disappeared soon after the death of their bishop, Hannes Yoder. By the 1950s the Old Order Amish in the county had within recent decades been moving into the southeastern townships from the expanding congregations in [[Holmes-Wayne-Tuscarawas Counties Old Order Amish Settlement (Ohio, USA)|Holmes County]] to the south. In the late 1950s they numbered 11 districts with 823 members. The Rich and Krabill families who left the Oak Grove congregation in 1869 and who later founded the Sterling, Ohio, Mennonite Church ([[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite]] [GCM]) united with the [[Wadsworth First Mennonite Church (Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio, USA)|Wadsworth Mennonite Church]] (GCM) about 1920. A small [[Brethren in Christ Church |Brethren in Christ]] congregation, proselyted from the Amish and Mennonites in the county about the middle of the century, and though served by the highly respected elder Elias Schrock, became extinct before the end of the century. The [[Holdeman, John (1832-1900)|John Holdeman]] Church, later called [[Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (CGC)|Church of God in Christ, Mennonite]], was founded in Chester Township in 1859 and erected a meetinghouse there, but moved west about 1883. The city congregations in Orrville (founded 1909) and Wooster (founded 1942) are composed of families with varying background. The [[Conservative Mennonite Conference|Conservative Mennonite]] congregations at Maysville and [[East Union Mennonite Church (Orrville, Ohio, USA)|East Union]] originated out of the Old Order Amish in the 1950s.<br />
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All but one of the original Mennonite congregations (Martin's) became [[Old Order Mennonites|Old Order Mennonite]] (OOM) during the Wisler controversy in Elkhart County, [[Indiana (USA)|Indiana]], about 1871-72. Some of these were nearing extinction by the late 1950s. A few Milton Township Swiss Mennonites helped to found the [[Apostolic Christian Church of America|Apostolic Christian Church]] in that township about 1855. The Sonnenberg Swiss Mennonite congregation had suffered considerable loss: first, in 1886 to the Salem congregation (GCM); in 1893-94 several members to the "Russelites," i.e., Jehovah's Witnesses; in 1917-19 to the Kidron Tabernacle, which during the 1950s lost most of its young people to the Missionary Church in [[Dalton (Ohio, USA)|Dalton]]; in 1935 to the [[Kidron Mennonite Church (Kidron, Ohio, USA)|Kidron]] congregation ([[Mennonite Church (MC)|Mennonite Church]] [MC]); and in the late 1950s 40 members to a new independent Bethel congregation near Apple Creek, formerly meeting in the Frog Pond school-house.<br />
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Of the Mennonite congregations active in the county during the late 1950s the following had an Amish (Amish Mennonite) background: Oak Grove (MC), 398 members; Pleasant Hill (MC), 180; [[Salem Mennonite Church (Wooster, Ohio, USA)|Salem]] (MC), 45; Orrville (MC), 265; Wooster (MC), 115; Maysville (CAM), 180; East Union (CAM), 90. The following were originally Mennonite: Martins (MC), 186; [[Wayne County Old Order Mennonites (Ohio, USA)|Wayne County]] (OOM), 3; [[Eight Square Old Order Mennonite Church (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Eight Square]] (OOM), 5; [[Chester Mennonite Church (Wayne County, Ohio, USA)|Chester]] (OOM), 40; [[County Line Old Order Mennonite Church (Dalton, Ohio, USA)|County Line]] (OOM), 160; [[Chestnut Ridge Mennonite Church (Orrville, Ohio, USA)|Chestnut Ridge]] (MC), 44. Those with a Swiss Mennonite background were Sonnenberg (MC), 168; [[Crown Hill Mennonite Church (Rittman, Ohio, USA)|Crown Hill]] (MC), 144; [[Salem Mennonite Church (Dalton, Ohio, USA)|Salem]] (GCM), 204; [[Kidron Mennonite Church (Kidron, Ohio, USA)|Kidron]] (MC), 509; Bethel (MC), 50; Marshallville, [[Reformed Mennonite Church|Reformed Mennonite]], 24.<br />
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All of the MC congregations were members of the [[Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference (MC)|Ohio and Eastern Mennonite Conference]] in the late 1950s except Oak Grove and Bethel which were independent, and Sonnenberg, a member of the [[Virginia Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Virginia Mennonite Conference]]. Chestnut Ridge also was a member of the Virginia Conference.<br />
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The total membership of all branches in the county in 1957 was 3,393, distributed as follows: Mennonite Church (MC), 12 congregations with 2,134 members; Old Order Amish, 14 with 1,061; Old Order Mennonites, 4 with 208; General Conference Mennonite, 1 with 204; Reformed Mennonite, 1 with 24.<br />
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