First Italian Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Ill. Records, 1891-1940 | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections

This collection contains the Minutes of the Session of the First Italian Presbyterian Church, of Chicago, Ill., 1891-1926, as well as the Church Register for those years, listing pastors, elders, deacons, communicants, baptisms, marriages, and deaths.

In addition, the collection includes the Minutes of the Session of the Samaritan (later Waldensian) Presbyterian Church, a splinter group of the First Italian Presbyterian Church, 1923-40.

These microfilmed records were acquired by the Illinois Historical Survey in 1965. See also Frank Cicero, Jr., Relative Strangers: Italian Protestants in the Catholic World (2011).