The electronic edition of A. S. Hayden's Early History of the Disciples in the Western Reserve, Ohio, with Biographical Sketches of the Principal Agents in Their Religious Movement (Cincinnati, OH: Chase and Hall, 1875), has been produced from a copy of the book held by the Disciples of Christ Historical Society. The online version has been produced from text scanned by Colvil Smith and formatted by Ernie Stefanik.

      Pagination in the electronic version has been represented by placing the page number in brackets following the last complete word on the printed page. In the printed text, extended quotations and biographies are set in slightly smaller type; in the electronic text, they are set off as block quotations. Chapter XXIV of the printed text is in smaller type and paragraphed with hanging indents; ordinary conventions of type size and paragraphing are followed in the electronic text. In the printed text, footnotes are indicated by printer's devices (asterisks, daggers, etc.); in the electronic text, they are treated as sequentially numbered endnotes. Inconsistencies in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and typography have been retained; however, corrections have been offered for misspellings and other accidental corruptions. Emendations are as follows:

            Printed Text [ Electronic Text
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 Chapter I.
 p. 22:     withersoever [ whithersoever
 p. 28:     Eph. 1: 4, 5. [ Eph. i: 4, 5.

 Chapter IV.
 p. 99:     Son of God? [ Son of God?"

 Chapter V.
 p. 123:    con flicts [ conflicts

 Chapter VI.
 p. 147:    euthusiasm [ enthusiasm

 Chapter VII.
 p. 189:    non de plume [ nom de plume

 Chapter XI.
 p. 244:    comforts  He [ comforts. He

 Chapter XII.
 p. 270:    ITINERACY. [ ITINERANCY.

 Chapter XIII.
 p. 306:    schis matic [ schismatic
 p. 307:    Onon daga [ Onondaga

 Chapter XIV.
 p. 313:    Pa., In [ Pa. In

 Chapter XVI.
 p. 347:    Campbell.' [ Campbell."

 Chapter XVII.
 p. 360:    surtuit [ surtout

 Chapter XVIII.
 p. 384:    converts, however  were [ converts, however, were

 Chapter XIX.
 p. 403:    fille  with [ filled with
            Happ  times! [ Happy times!

 Chapter XX.
 p. 415:    Bro  O'Connor [ Bro. O'Connor

 Chapter XXII.
 p. 441:    belicose, [ bellicose,

 Chapter XXIV.
 p. 467:    A Humeston, [ A Humeston,
 p. 468:    Chapin Moss, [ Chapin, Moss,
            Rich d Dun- ham, [ Rich'd Dunham,

 Index.
 p. 474:    Itineracy, [ Itineranct,
 p. 475:    Preacher's meetings, [ Preachers' meetings,
 

      The extract from Thomas Campbell's letter of 9 April 1828, p. 148, appears in a somewhat different form in William Baxter's Life of Elder Walter Scott (Cincinnati, OH: Bosworth, Chase and Hall, 1874), pp. 158-159 The variations between the texts are as follows:

 Baxter / Hayden     Life of Walter Scott [ Early History of Disciples
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 p. 158 / p. 148:    consideration. It is one thing to know concerning
                        the art of fishing--for instance, the rod, the
                        line, the hook, and the bait, too; and quite
                        another thing to handle them dextrously when
                        thrown into the water, so as to make it take. We
                        [ consideration. We
                     have long known the former (the theory), and have
                        spoken [ have spoken
                     correctly concerning  [ correctly concerning
                     gospel, its [ gospel--its
                     of his immediate [ of its immediate
                     salvation; but [ salvation--but
                     direct exhibition [ direct exhibition
                     and application [ and application
                     present for [ present, for
 p. 159:             time upon [ time, upon
                     practically exhibited [ practically exhibited
                     Mr. Scott [ Mr Scott
                     ancient gospel, and [ ancient gospel and
                     young. Will [ young: Will
                     Then come away. [ Then come away, etc., etc.
                     testimony, beg [ testimony--beg
                     consent, give [ consent--give
                     day or night, [ day or night;
                     and upon [ and, upon
                     whole none [ whole, none
 

      Addenda and corrigenda are earnestly solicited.

Created 15 December 2000.
Updated 14 November 2001.