Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -

Sale 2697 - Lot 346

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(RELIGION.) Papers of a bishop with the Church of God in Christ. Approximately 60 items (0.3 linear feet); generally minor wear. Pennsylvania, 1940-1992
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Gordon E. Vaughn (1900-1998) served as assistant pastor of the Church of God in Christ in Pittsburgh, and then in 1950 became the denomination's bishop and overseer for the Western Pennsylvania district, with approximately 150 churches under his care. The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Pentecostal church with a largely Black membership of more than six million members. Included in these papers are:

Membership roll and notebook of the COGIC church at 35 Miller Street. 20 manuscript pages. Pittsburgh, 1944.

Notebook of sermon notes and donations. [50] typescript and manuscript looseleaf pages, 6 x 3½ inches, unbound. Undated, but one page references the recent bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941.

Correspondence file of letters to and from Bishop Vaughn, 14 items, 1963-1966. It includes a 19 July 1963 letter from the notable Black architect Julian C. Madison of Cleveland, offering to "discuss your building program at any time."

39 pages of loose typescript and manuscript minutes and memoranda, including Ministerial Alliance, annual meetings to organize Western Pennsylvania, building fund drive notes, and more, 1950-1965.

Printed ephemera, 26 items, 1940-1992, including a circa 1940 printing of "The Gospel of Faith," a 1990 COGIC calendar of events and an undated "Gold Loves You" ribbon both illustrated with Bishop Vaughn's portrait, numerous obsequies programs, and various programs and yearbooks.

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