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growth of the state in wide perspective and contains numerous references to Mennonites and Amish in both the colonial and national periods. Especially helpful is the depiction of the role of Pennsylvania's numerous religious sects and groups in its history from the beginning. A History of Ohio (Columbus: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1958) by Eugene H. Roseboom and Francis P. Weisenburger, edited and illustrated by James H. Rodabaugh, is equally wide in its perspective, though it refers little to the Mennonite and Amish groups in the state. Carl F. Wittke, ed., The History of the State of Ohio (Columbus: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1941-44) is a six-volume work which contains much material on religion in Ohio and is well documented with bibliographical references.

The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly (1887- ) contains rich source material on the state and frequently features religious groups, though its references to the Mennonites and Amish are not numerous.

The county histories of the state of Ohio conform to the publishing standards which characterized these volumes that began their appearance in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and continued into the 1930's. They are invariably large, frequently multivolumed, and illustrated. The historical sections are of value and the biographical sections usually contain information that is not available in any other source. Especially relevant to this study are History of Logan County and Ohio (Chicago: O. L. Baskins and Co., 1880); The Historical Review of Logan County, Ohio (Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1903) by Robert P. Kennedy; History of Wayne County (Indianapolis: Robert Douglass, 1878) by Wayne Douglas; History of Wayne County, Ohio (Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen, 1910), Vols. 1, 2; Commemorative Biographical Record of Wayne County, Ohio (Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1889); History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio (Syracuse, New York: Mason and Co., 1888), edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich; A Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1920), under the editorial supervision of Frank H. Reighard. A splendid guide to basic secondary sources on the histories of the respective Ohio counties is the work compiled by Clarence L. Weaver and Helen Mills, County Historical Material in the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Library (Columbus: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1936). It is reprinted from the Society's Quarterly for April 1936.

The Papers of the Ohio Church History Society, Vol. XI (Oberlin: Ohio Church History Society, 1900) contain historical sketches on personalities of the congregational conferences in Ohio and chapter eight tells of the Medina conference. In the same chapter the Mennonites are referred to as an "outside" group.

The experiences of other religious groups of a sectarian character on the Ohio frontier merit study for comparative purposes, though this study failed to ascertain any interaction or influences of note with regard to the Mennonite and Amish communities. A Brief History of Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Conservative) (Barnesville, Ohio: 1959), compiled by Charles P. Morlan, contains basic data on the Ohio Quakers and reproduces documents on their peace, educational, and service programs. Zoar: An Ohio Experiment in Communalism (Columbus: Ohio Historical Society, 1960) is a publication of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society with