PCA HISTORICAL CENTER
Archives and Manuscript Repository for the Continuing Presbyterian Church


Henry Garner Welbon

Manuscript Collection MS#041
Boxes #103.3; 104.1; 104.2; 114.4; 388.4; 388.5; and 388.6.

Content Summary: Early sets of the Minutes of the Bible Presbyterian Church and its Form of Government; various local church histories, including two authored by the Rev. Welbon; seven scrapbooks detailing the Fundamentalist/Modernist controversy of the early 20th century (about 700 pages in total length). Correspondence with other students at Princeton Theological Seminary upon his leaving to attend Westminster Theological Seminary in 1929.

Span dates: 1933 - 1999 Size: 4.25 cu. ft. (seven cartons)

Access: This collection is open to researchers.

Preferred citation:
Henry Garner Welbon Manuscript Collection, Box #___, PCA Historical Center, St. Louis, Missouri.

Related Collections:
Bible Presbyterian Church

Henry Garner Welbon
Rev. Henry Garner Welbon
[28 Sept. 1904 - 11 Dec. 1999]






Box 103.3 [1.0 cf.]
The Scrapbooks of Henry G. Welbon: Carefully gathered news clippings documenting the fundamentalist/modernist controversy of the 1920s & 30s. Source & page references noted on most items. Seven scrapbooks, totaling over 700 pages. Index to Scrapbook #1.

Box 104.1
[1.0 cf.]arrangement & description pending.
Box 104.2
[1.0 cf.]arrangement & description pending.

Box 114.4
[0.5 cf.]
Box/File & Subject
ƒ01 — Finding Aid
ƒ02 — Bible Presbyterian Church, Form of Government
ƒ03 — General Synod, 1938, (Fifth), Bible Presbyterian Church, Minutes of May 16
ƒ04 — General Synod, 1938, (Fourth), Bible Presbyterian Church, Minutes of April 29
ƒ05 — General Synod, 1938, (Third), Bible Presbyterian Church, Minutes of March 25
ƒ06 — General Synod, 1938, (Second), Bible Presbyterian Church, Minutes of January 3
ƒ07 — Philadelphia Presbytery (Bible Presbyterian Church), 1938, Minutes of September 6
ƒ08 — Resolutions

Box 388.4 — Princeton Correspondence [0.25 cf.]
Box 388.5 — Princeton Correspondence
[0.25 cf.]
Box 388.6
Princeton Correspondence [0.25 cf.]

Additional Resources among our holdings:
1. See also the testimonies of Dorothy and Henry Welbon in the June/July 1966 WPM Newsletter, pages 7 - 10 [with photograph].
2. Ewy, Priscilla Welbon, Henry Goes To Korea: Letters, Pictures and Documents Chronicling the Year 1946 in Pusan, Korea and Arlington, Virginia as Told by Henry Welbon and his family and compiled in this book form by his daughter, Priscilla Welbon Ewy. Pb, 468 p.