Stidham* Place Name Photograph
Jasper H. Stidham United Methodist Church,
Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., Indiana


Jasper H. [358] Stidham of Tippecanoe Co., Indiana (1833-1912) willed the land on which this church was built. It was built in 1914 and dedicated on May 16, 1915. Following the unification in 1939 of the three bodies of the Methodist Church - the Methodist Episcopal Church North, the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and the Methodist Protestant Church - the church was renamed the Jasper H. Stidham Methodist Church in honor of its benefactor.




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