Presbyterian Church

 

A Presbyterian Church was organized in this Township by Rev. S. T. Wilson, Rev. J. C. Barr, Rev. David Kelly, and Ruling Elder Edmund Buck, of Andover, on. Nov. 4, 1867, and Hiram Woodward and Charles Crabb were ordained Elders of the church.

The first sermon was preached by Rev. S. T. Wilson, of Rock Island. There were seventeen communicants, which subsequently increased to a membership of forty-two.

During the existence of this church there were ten baptisms. On June 5, 1870, William Sherrard and Johnson McLaughlin were ordained Elders. The services were held in Hinman's School House. Subsequently this church was dissolved, and. a few of its members joined the present Presbyterian Church, of Munson.

 

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