The volume is organized as follows: Part I. History of Episcopal Methodism in Wisconsin before the Formation of the Wisconsin Conference, 1832-1848. Part II. History of the Wisconsin Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1848-1889. Part III. History of the West and Northwest Wisconsin Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1856-1889. Part IV. History of other Methodist Bodies in Wisconsin, 1842-1889. 1. Primitive Methodist Church. 2. Evangelical Association (German). 3. German Episcopal Methodists. 4. Scandinavian Methodists. 5. Free Methodists. 6. American Wesleyan Methodists. Appendices (there are many). The first is a table showing the number of members and preachers of the Methodist church throughout Wisconsin, as reported in their annual conference, for each year from 1835 to 1889. Another table shows the names of all preachers appearing in the conference minutes, beginning with John Dew in 1828.