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Written by the congregations. Herman Bertram, A Brief History of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1837–1962 (1962; open at the Internet Archive) — one congregation's 125 years, from the inside. Charles Blanchard, ed., History of the Catholic Church in Indiana (1898) for the diocese's first frame. First Presbyterian Church in Fort Wayne (Historical Society, 1959); Shepherds for Christ's Sheep, ed. Smith (Concordia Theological Seminary, 2017); Rehmer, "The Origins of Lutheranism in the Fort Wayne Area," Concordia Theological Quarterly 30.2 (1967); and the congregations' and denominations' own published histories, read at their sources.
Three standard works are named here so no reader mistakes them for sources of this one: George R. Mather, Frontier Faith: The Story of the Pioneer Congregations of Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1820–1860; Sarah Vosmeier, Fort Wayne's Churches and Congregations, 1700–1950; and Alerding, The Diocese of Fort Wayne, 1857–1907 (1907). All three are held at the ACPL; the Religion section reached their substance second-hand, through the 1961 Historical Society sketch and the cathedral histories, and the leg's notes say so. They are the published field for a future first-hand pass, not authorities behind anything printed here.
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- The Religion section (the first group, first-hand; the second group, flagged as not opened).