Chardon United Methodist Church

It is noted that the church’s affiliation has variously been described as The Methodist Society, The Methodist Episcopal (ME) Church, The Methodist Church, and The United Methodist Church. 

The date that the Methodist Society of Chardon joined the Methodist Episcopal Church (or perhaps simply achieved church status) is not known.  The earliest records, dating to 1866, list it as an ME Church.  The ME Church was organized in Baltimore in 1784.  It split over the question of slavery in the 1840’s, and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South was organized in the southern states.  The two branches of the ME Church and the Methodist Protestant Church joined to form the Methodist Church in 1939.  The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged in 1968 to form the United Methodist Church.