Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of the minutes of annual meetings (called a District Conference) by the New Orleans District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The district began holding annual meetings in November 1867. These meetings were attended by the district’s clergy and lay delegates from each pastoral charge; it was presided over by the district superintendent.The minute books document the administrative activities of the meetings and regularly...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of the minutes of annual meetings (called a District Conference) by the New Orleans District of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The district began holding annual meetings in November 1867. These meetings were attended by the district’s clergy and lay delegates from each pastoral charge; it was presided over by the district superintendent.The minute books document the administrative activities of the meetings and regularly...